Not a fun surprise

Two things I have notice recently. One, the dryer takes FOREVER to dry. It takes almost two full cycles to get fully dry. I did some research and found out that I need to clean out the dryer vent... Two, I have been smelling something GROSS recently. I could never really place where it was coming from and it was never constant. Note to self, I need to clean the house.

So today I decided to move the dryer and look at what was ahead of me. I thought I could try and just vacuum it out and if it was more that I would let Nathan deal with it. So i pulled the dryer out and unplugged it. Disconnected the hose from the dryer and started to vacuum, we have a shop vac. I looked like all the of the lint had just been going straight behind the dryer. Gross. I was just about to disconnect the hose from the wall when I found this.



GROSS! A bird in our dryer vent. I guess that solves both of the issues. I'm so glad the tail feathers were sticking out and I didn't open it up and this is what fell out. Poor thing probably just wanted a warm place to be. Needless to say, Nathan got to deal with it. Thank goodness for husbands.