My Iowa Commute

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Wow - I've only seen snow like that on skiing holidays [envy].
You live in a wooden house! That's well foreign to me!

I can't wait for your commute. Please can I also have pictures of your kitchen, your bathroom, your weekly food shop etc

The cedar siding is nice, but it has drawbacks, primarily because the woodpeckers and the pigmy nuthatches think it's a big dead tree. They drill holes in the walls to make nests, some of them 4 inches in diameter, and pull out the insulation.

The other problem is that we live in an area with occasional large fires (10,000 to 120,000 acres) and this house would burn fast.

I can see by that picture that it's time to stain the front door.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by HLJ

The cedar siding is nice, but it has drawbacks, primarily because the woodpeckers and the pigmy nuthatches think it's a big dead tree. They drill holes in the walls to make nests, some of them 4 inches in diameter, and pull out the insulation.

My folks had the woodpecker problem. After many years of replacing wood and cursing the little peckers, they stoped staining and painted the house. That did it.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

My folks had the woodpecker problem. After many years of replacing wood and cursing the little peckers, they stoped staining and painted the house. That did it.

This year I finally bought an air rifle. I shot two of the pygmy nuthatches but they just fell to the ground, got up and flew away. They've since come back and are living inside the walls.