July 23, 2007
porch demo w/ mummified opossum
At the end of day 1, the demolition is done and the truck is full of stuff to take to the dump. We found 4 or 5 old soda bottles and a mummified opossum.
We put up the new supports, took down the 2×4 handrails, pulled up the flooring, and pulled all of the mostly rotted supports from underneath. Straight forward enough, but surprisingly exhausting.
I almost grabbed the tail of this before I saw what it was.
The next step is to dig for the footings for the piers and get the truck emptied.
that’s a beautiful photograph of the possum, really.
Wow, thats pretty wild. Kinda scary looking!
[...] porch roof had been jacked up on 2×10s for something like 8 weeks, it is nice to see them [...]
[...] the things that we’ve found before, we completely expected the attic to be packed with bones and [...]
I lived over on 2500 block of East Grace
in the 80’s. My roommate had a possum climb up the tree, onto the balcony and into her bedroom window via a loose screen. She felt something furry and thought it was the cat until it bit her toe. At which point she flipped on the light and saw a possum in her room.
POSSUM.
And since it ran off, she had to get rabies shots!
Glad your possum was just mummified!