Well the first potential crisis at the house since I've moved in.  I decided
to go upstairs to the room over the garage tonight for some reason and when
I opened the door I could smell smoke.  I opened the door to the attic and I
could see smoke.  I looked around and the only thing I could think it was
was the air conditioning unit.  I took a cover off while it was running and
didn't see or smell anything and everything felt cool.  The smoke smelled
like a grass fire.

I came down to get a new battery for the smoke alarm in the room over the
garage (was just changed on Daylight Savings Time) and sat down and started
thinking of where it could be coming from.  Then it came to me, there's a
new bird's nest on the downspout in the backyard right next to the
floodlight.  I had knocked it down last weekend but saw it being rebuilt
during the week and since it wasn't hurting anything I left it there.  I had
let Abby outside about an hour before going upstairs and left the light on
for about 20 minutes.  I decided to get a broom and knock the nest down...
no bird in it, but the nest was burned in half and the vented soffit pieces
above it were scorched a little bit... problem solved.  Now I know why Abby
was looking up at the nest when I went out to get her, I thought she was
just looking at the bird in it.

Lee