Wind River wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
>> Wind River <wind_river@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:5locvoF8v7jvU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Village Sharpener wrote:
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>>>> Tim wrote:
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>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy Autumn, everyone!
>>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Tim,
>>>>
>>>> Joe from New England (Massachusetts).
>>>>
>>>> Maples are just starting to turn outside my shop window.
>>>
>>> I'm jealous.
>>>
>>> I've been back in Florida for the last couple of years to be near my
>>> parents who are both in their eighties now. I really miss the cool
>>> days of autumn with the brightly colored falling leaves and busy
>>> squirrels and chipmunks.
>>>
>>> WR
>>
>>
>> Squirrels just frighten me anymore. When I was a kid, they'd run away.
>> Nowadays, I open the door and they just sit on my stoop and give me a
>> bad look. I know it's just an urban legend, but I really do believe
>> they're all chewing on crack vials.
>
> I hear there's a market for squirrel tattoo parlors, too. I suppose it
> helps them promote their Bad Squirrel image.
>
> WR
We have squirrels at the bird feeders every morning, eating their fill
and just leaving samples for the intended recipients. This drives my
husband crazy, but I just assume squirrels get hungry, too. One of our
squirrels is pure white, not albino, just white, and there is a silver
squirrel, too, that may be a cross between the white and the gray.
When I'm out walking, I stop under a walnut tree and pick up the ones on
the ground to take home to put out for "my" squirrels. My daughter
enjoys watching a squirrel running away with a nut in its mouth. My
husband says the smart squirrels who built their nests by the walnut
tree will starve this winter while the lazy "welfare class" squirrels I
have created are just finding the nuts with no effort or forethought at
all. There will be generations of squirrels raised in our backyard who
have no idea how to gather food on their own.
My daughter, concerned about this, planted an acorn so we will have an
oak in the backyard and the future generations of lazy squirrels won't
have to go far to forage. I think she missed the point of her dad's
lesson (which I simply choose to ignore).
Deb
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