Well, that didn't take long

[johnridley]

I was topping off windshield washer fluid in all the cars this morning, and as I was opening it, I realized we'd had the new car what, 3 or 4 months, and I had never opened the hood before. Geez, take away my geek license.
Here's what was under the hood. This is pretty common in our garage. This is also one of the reasons we don't have an attached garage. It gives these guys all winter to camp out in the garage while they eat through the wall into the attic and invade.
A couple of handfuls of stuff moved to the trash can (the cat is sniffing my hand like crazy right now) and a hit with the shop vac takes care of that. Of course, they probably robbed the firewall to make the nest.

Comments

[renniekins.livejournal.com]

What IS that? I totally can't tell from the pic.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Mouse nest. We have a lot of field mice in the neighborhood. They don't come in to the house, but there are hundreds on the property. They invariably decide that cars are nice places to live, first time one comes in that's nice and clean and warm. Then you drive away with them in it, and they have an unpleasant experience. I unpleasanted the one that probably built this about a week ago with this car, into an unpleasant furry pancake in the driveway.