I don't break for squirrels

I used to break for the hairy little rats. I haven't always thought they were bad. There was a time when I sorta liked them. Things do change you know. I'm not a hunting woman. In fact, I'd be one of the least likely people in the world to hunt. I'm not opposed to hunting, I just like to keep far away from it and have no desire to ever see something that I might be eating. While I know where it comes from, in my happy little world it comes from the grocery store and that's it. I'm funny that way. If I'm fixing to eat chicken and think about it actually being a chicken, I can't eat it. I'd be a very happy vegetarian you see. If I told you right now that I didn't have a burning desire to grab a gun and take out every squirrel in this forest I'd be lying. I love animals, not rodents. They're annoying and destructive. Go ahead and play chicken when I'm driving next time. I hope you're not too shocked when you realize you're walking through the gates of squirrely hell. Why my sudden hatred of squirrels? Well since you asked......I've never really liked them. I just like them a whole lot less now.

The kids know that I love birds and that I like watching them. One of the things they got me for Mother's Day was a large bird feeder. Mike hung it in a tree on a very narrow branch away from all the others. He put it there because he didn't think the squirrels could get to it and because I could see it out of my kitchen window. They also got me a huge bag of seeds for it. The seeds they got were meant to attract cardinals and it did. I watched a bunch of cardinals, sparrows, and robins eating out of it. I noticed some squirrels on the tree and saw them trying to get to the branch but it was too skinny. They couldn't seem to get a hold of it. I think it was really ticking them off too because on the second day after he put it up, it looked like a squirrel was hissing at the birds. I looked out the window a little while later and instead of seeing cardinals you know what I saw? One of the ugly little rats was hanging upside down by his feet from the branch, with his thieving little hands in the seed knocking them all out on to the ground. This is a large bird feeder and he kicked out over half the seed. I was so mad! He was kicking it out for all of his friends! There must've been 15 squirrels down there eating while he was kicking them out. If I would've had a grenade there would have been mass squirrel casualties. I obviously had to take the bird feeder down for now. Mike's been in Nashville all week so I'll have him figure out another place to put it when he gets home. Unless we put it back and he gets me squirrel ammo.

Speaking of Mike being in Nashville, this is one business trip I'm not jealous of. I hope he's having a great time down in country music land....ick. I hope his next trip is somewhere interesting because if it is and the timing's ok I might go with him. I wish I could've gone to California with him one of the last times. At one point he mentioned Hawaii. If he ever goes to Hawaii, I'll definitely be on that plane. I don't care if the timing's not right...lol. I do feel bad though...he's been sick most of the time he's been gone. I've not been feeling like myself today either...my head hurts and my throat's all scratchy. I hope I feel better tomorrow because I'm chaperoning Joshua's field trip. We're dip netting for dragonflies and other things on the bank of a lake. I wasn't comfortable at all with letting him go to a lake without me.

We took Cassie downtown on Saturday for that ice cream eating contest. You shoulda seen how much ice cream they brought them! I never would have thought...wow. They each had a bucket filled with scoops of vanilla ice cream, with chocolate syrup, brownies, and whip cream. She didn't win but she sure did have fun trying. I especially liked watching her and the bald guy race each other...lol. He came in second.