House Changes

We finally got around to purchasing new living room furniture last week and it looks great!  Our old sofa was just too large for our space and the chair-and-a-half was simply awful.  The coffee table was a cheap Target one that we wanted to update anyway and then our neice Clare helped that cause by accidentally leaning on the end leaf and breaking it off!  And last but not least, a new area rug.  The old one was is poor shape after four years of constant heavy traffic.  Here is the finished product:

When we moved the old sofa, low and behold we found a treasure trove of rawhides...I guess we know where Otis' favorite hiding spot was...

Last winter, we had a squirrel decide to move into our home. He can jump to our roof from an adjacent tree and dug into the underhang and made a nice little abode over our sleeper porch. This fall Greg got a Havahart trap and set it out by the pine tree where the squirrel is often seen. After a few hours, we caught our man (or so we thought). Greg released him that day in a park far from our house. However, we discovered when you place carrots, nuts, and dried fruit in your yard it attracts more squirrels! Since we no way of knowing if the one we caught was our roommate, we set it again. Squirrel #2 got to take the drive down to Letchworth and currently has a new home with a nice view.