B>ced combined--deal with winter moisture by placinga twig on the front rim,
beneath the outer and inner coverusually before the first frost (15oct here 10
miles W of is past--about 1apr.nt, the sameffed with leaves or whatnot--nothing.
BTW, two of us usemouse excluders but I NEVER do since I run my bottom boards,
year round and have NEVER had a mouseproblem. (Extra expense and extra work are
not my forte.)Suum cuique!
   John Iannuzzi PhD            * "Singing masons building roofs
   9772 Old Annapolis Rd        *  of gold."       --Shakespeare
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