G, The Appalachian squirrels are hoarding and loading up like mad! The little buggers keep cleaning out my chicken feeders. They'll go through 50lbs of scratch in a week -- that's a lot of food fwiw. Cold winter up here I suspect
There's divots all over the yard and the dogs are going psycho trying to keep up with them. The squirrels are hoarding more and according to the farmer's almanac, that means a bad winter.
Dear gawd, just replace the local guys with them. At least then I could laugh about the stock market falling. I know they would put there spin on it. How did she do that with a straight face?... ?
We spent all weekend in the Driftless area of SW Wisconsin -- 80 degree highs, glorious clear sky -- if this is a bad Autumn, bring on more, please!
I don't mind squirrel activity -- the racoons in our neck o the woods are getting pretty darned frisky, though -- carrying off 50 pound bags of bird food, re-arranging the garder tools in the shed, smokin dope in the Entropy Lab --
I love The Onion! I'll never forget the article they had a long time ago about deploying the "Very Special Forces" to Iraq; they rode the short C-130. Their columnists are funny too. And the TV news is excellent stuff.