We have a single detached garage that serves as freezer/laundry/seasonal clothing storage and H's parking.
I finished it out a year maybe two summers ago as it was dark and un- inviting. The PO had put hinged plywood on several open studs and stored home canned products...not a great idea with the TX summer heat. I found a few in a nailed shut section.
Anyways, before the finish out, H left the door open often and have found birds who couldn't find the exit a few days later. A tiny bird sure can funk up a space. Didn't happen last two summers at all.
It's bird swarming season and for the last week I smelled something again. I pulled stuff away from the wall, looked in every space trying to narrow it down. Wasn't a dead bird smell, thought it was a water leak behind the drywall as it had a moldy smell.It was getting worse daily.
Finally got it down to a corner and moved a shelving unit near the freezer and found the culprit...a 8 oz sealed fish filet that must have jumped out of the freezer. So glad it was a nice seal-a-meal bag and not just wrapped. Still allows some funk out obviously, but it stayed in place until I slid it into the trash. Even the Blue Heeler steered clear which is unusual.
Neither of us recall moving the basket in the top loading freezer that has the filets...wonder how long that has been under there.
This morning it's back to normal and I got that smell out of my head...almost.
A side story was when I was a younger father, my bro-in-law and I often stuck fish/ shrimp heads in ziplocks either in the hubcaps of the others wives cars or under the seat of each others non A/C'd trucks. Once those bad boys get warm and the bag busts...you couldn't get near it Good Times
He once stuck a very used diaper in the seat springs of my '67 shortbed in August...thought I was gonna die stuck in Houston traffic. It went on for years...sure miss him...not.
I finished it out a year maybe two summers ago as it was dark and un- inviting. The PO had put hinged plywood on several open studs and stored home canned products...not a great idea with the TX summer heat. I found a few in a nailed shut section.
Anyways, before the finish out, H left the door open often and have found birds who couldn't find the exit a few days later. A tiny bird sure can funk up a space. Didn't happen last two summers at all.
It's bird swarming season and for the last week I smelled something again. I pulled stuff away from the wall, looked in every space trying to narrow it down. Wasn't a dead bird smell, thought it was a water leak behind the drywall as it had a moldy smell.It was getting worse daily.
Finally got it down to a corner and moved a shelving unit near the freezer and found the culprit...a 8 oz sealed fish filet that must have jumped out of the freezer. So glad it was a nice seal-a-meal bag and not just wrapped. Still allows some funk out obviously, but it stayed in place until I slid it into the trash. Even the Blue Heeler steered clear which is unusual.
Neither of us recall moving the basket in the top loading freezer that has the filets...wonder how long that has been under there.
This morning it's back to normal and I got that smell out of my head...almost.
A side story was when I was a younger father, my bro-in-law and I often stuck fish/ shrimp heads in ziplocks either in the hubcaps of the others wives cars or under the seat of each others non A/C'd trucks. Once those bad boys get warm and the bag busts...you couldn't get near it Good Times
He once stuck a very used diaper in the seat springs of my '67 shortbed in August...thought I was gonna die stuck in Houston traffic. It went on for years...sure miss him...not.