Back at the beginning of March, I talked about finding a nest on my engine. Last month, I was going to mention something else, but that's when my website went "Bandwidth Exceeded" and I couldn't blog, and I sort of forgot about it.

You see, on March 27, Carol had went to Jiffy Lube for an Oil Change. Her truck (one of those Suzuki Grand Vitara's) had been running fine except, in the middle of some bad weather, her windshield wipers had stopped working. When the guys started doing their little procedures under the hood, they all kind of stopped and one of them went into the waiting room. "Um, has your truck been running OK?" he asked Carol. She told him about the windshield wipers. "That's it?" "Yeah, why?" "I think we found the problem," he says.

It turns out that Carol had a huge nest under her hood. Why we didn't check her truck after I found a nest under my hood, I really don't know. Carol was in the waiting room watching the guys hauling all kinds of stuff out from underneath the hood. Whatever was making the nest had chewed on a cable. The guys patched it up and the windshield washers worked again.

Fast forward to today. It's been lightly raining today. Carol went out for lunch. Guess what? Yep, the windshield wipers stopped working. Carol pulled into the parking lot at work. She had a thought. She popped the hood on her truck.

There it was - a huge nest, built with fresh leaves and twigs and sticks. No critter, though. She called me at home and had me check my car - nothing. No nest. Judging by the material, it sounds like stuff that was around the parking lot at work. She called the dealer to get scheduled for the repair, but she came home first. Why? Because she wanted me to take pictures of the thing (since she never saw her first one and I was able to get pictures of mine).

Well, when she popped the hood in the driveway, she was a little excited - the nest had an indentation in it where the critter would have been hunkered-down trying to keep warm. That indentation wasn't there when she checked at lunch - meaning the critter had come back and settled into the nest to warm up for the afternoon.

We dismantled the nest and the material filled a 5 gallon bucket.