Too bad Alfred Hitchcock isn't around to make a sequel to The Birds. He could save on animal trainers and just film our porch for footage of THE SQUIRRELS.
I don't know why Farmer H's buddy hasn't been out here hunting them. He could have enough to fill his freezer for the winter, just by taking the legal limit per day. I think that's 13, but I'm not sure. I guess maybe he has a real job, and can't be filling his idle hours to fill his larder.
These beasts grow bolder by the day. Saturday, one jumped from the porch rail to the WINDOW SCREEN at my right shoulder. Well. It would have been at my right shoulder, had I been sitting at HIPPIE at the kitchen table. Thankfully I was at the sink washing dishes. I might have had a heart attack. That couldn't be blamed on Farmer H!
That dang window squirrel went up the screen, then back down head first, then up again, making sure to cover every path imaginable across that 4 x 6 foot screen. There are several punctures in it, but no long cuts. I hate squirrels! I clapped, I yelled, I thumped on the wall so it could feel vibrations, but it paid me no mind.
On the side porch, the squirrels have knocked down several items this week. A see-through flat red apple that was part of a wind chime. A big ceramic thingy shaped like a hornet nest, with little colored lights embedded. I think that was made by my grandma, and given to The Pony, though I'm not sure why it was on the porch shelves. Also, Farmer H's BBQ tongs were on the porch, having been knocked off GassyG Jr.
As I left for town, ranting about those squirrels, who were scattering down the porch posts, my poor little Jack looked sad. I assured him I was NOT talking to him. I know he's a GOOD BOY, and has never bothered the BBQ tongs. Without Pupsie around, I don't want Jack to be blamed for the squirrel shenanigans.
Farmer H's theory that the squirrels would be drawn away from the porch, to eat corn from the feeders The Hunter put in the woods, does not seem to be accurate.
2 comments:
I just recently watched a You Tube short showing a squirrel running up a tree with one of those tiny American flags in its mouth. It carried it way towards the top and it kind of got wedged and he left it and went on further up. It looked like he was putting out the flag to show his patriotism. They are clever creatures and can find their way into almost anything. They should be getting busy building nests for winter. Maybe yours are planning on going to Florida for the winter season. LOL Ranee
Rae,
Heh, heh! It wouldn't surprise me if our squirrels are moving into the two dog houses on the end of the porch for winter. AND my Sweet, Sweet Juno's old dog house just outside the kitchen door.
I often hear scratching on the rug in front of the door. I used to think it was Pupsie, and now Jack, but it's at night sometimes, and the motion lights don't go on. Which is curious, because they are pointed down and should activate from squirrels as well as dogs.
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