Michael Bevilacqua

I am selling my house to move closer to work, as that is all I have left. The house went up on the market May 1st.

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Find rotting groundhog corpse and bury it. Check.

Find in-ground yellow jacket wasp nest and hit it with SpectracidePro. Check.

Our neighbor’s son has been mowing our lawn for $20 and came across a hive while I was camping last weekend. He was stung once, and then his father was stung once while attempting to retrieve the lawn mower. They let me know the general vicinity of the hive. I did a broadcast spray of the area at noon to see if that would agitate them. It didn’t, so wearing a lot of clothing, I slowly and carefully combed the area for holes or entry points. I fortunately scored and hit the nest hard after about 45 minutes of combing the back yard. Score one for Michael.

There has been a rotting smell in the area coming from our neighbors shed, only it hasn’t been all that bad until last night. This morning I went out looking for it. Fortunately the neighbor was outside in his shed. He immediately said to me “I know what the smell is you are looking for. There was a dead groundhog in the road and the lady from across the road came over to me and asked me what am I going to do about it. So I put it into my compost.” I replied with “Well, the smell is overcoming my home.” He apologized, I said it was no problem and that I was happy he knew where it was coming from and that I, nor we, had to do any kind of crawl space investigations, poison ivy infested wooded area searches, or the like to resolve the issue. Score two for Michael and the neighbor.

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Getting the front roof replaced today.

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“Why can’t everyone be like that?”

That was my comment to Elizabeth as we left Harleysville Mattress this afternoon after purchasing two new Naples Hardwood Futon Couches with mattress and coffee colored covers for our upstairs. Brook, obviously the owner, was kind, considerate, informed and helpful. One of my most pleasant shopping experiences and only 8 minutes from where we live.

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I put these lights up before Thanksgiving and didn’t immediately take a photo of them. Then a very windy storm came through town and broke a bunch of the lights close to the very top of the the peak of the roof. So then I waited until it was acceptable again for me to get back up on the ladder to take down the set of compromised lights and replace them. Then after that I took these photos. And then after that it was time to do a million other things like… Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas at my Brothers, New Years week, getting the flu, recovering from the flu and taking the lights down last weekend.

Well, better late then never I suppose.

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Elizabeth and I put on our boots today and did some much needed sping yard work including cleaning up leaves we didn’t get from the Fall, moving the remainder of stones from the front yard to complete the circle around the pines, climbing the pine tree in the front to trim around the house power wire main and most importantly, watching Caligula chase chipmunks in the middle yard.

Completeing that circle around the pines has spiritual meaning for me where I’m pretty sure it didn’t when I first started that project last Spring. This represents a very wonderful shift in my world view and really brought my spirits up even higher than they already were today.

Tune in to the 13thHour tonight at 12am Eastern for a Spring ambient special. Lots of tribal, morning ambient and upbeats. Should be a great show.

For now though, I think we’re going to get a bite to eat and a beer over a Sly Fox. I really could go for a Pils.