If It's Not One Thing......It's Another

The past two days Garrett and I have been trying to get caught up on dirty laundry and we noticed the dryer hasn't been working well. Each load took about 3 hours to dry. We were starting to think another dryer broke on us (we just replaced it about 6months ago). The weird thing was that the dryer was getting warm, it just wasn't drying the clothes. So I called my genius of a dad and he said "check the vent outside to make sure air is coming out." Well, sure enough Garrett went up on the ladder and he could see a bunch of grass-looking stuff stuck in there. Right away we knew there was a birds nest. It was actually stuffed so far up the vent that we had to get the nest out from inside the laundry room. The sad thing is that there was eggs in the nest that are probably not going to make it now. We removed the nest from the vent and brought it outside to a safe place (away from the dogs). Hopefully the birds will survive, but I am sure the chance is not good. I am just glad the heat and the dry grass/straw didn't start a fire.

This is the dryer vent on the outside of the house where they were hiding.


Here is the nest that was inside the vent. Just so you can get an idea of how big it was......this is a regular size screw driver next to the nest. I can't believe all that was stuffed up in the vent.