squirrels
September 28, 2009
- I am feeling quite smug. The remaining figs are very green and I doubt they will ripen by Thursday.I've taken off the plastic so far the squirrel hasn't tried to steal another fig. Perhaps it was all the talk of sautéed squirrel brains?
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March 26, 2009
- Today was a day like many others, with only a minor difference: I’m fighting off the tail end of a cold season bug, which turned out to be a rather muscular dragon's tail knocking me back down every time I got up. A gentle rain fell as I woke up. It served as a musical backdrop to the crying of gulls, the singing of the resident male robin, and the trilling of song sparrows. Despite a light ...
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March 18, 2009
- Today I learned that “Fred Rescues the Neighborhood Squirrels” is the most popular view on YouTube. More popular even than the Senate hearing on HB 191, which my brother Phil in Atlanta points out is also available on YouTube. Is this, then, the dreaded Dumbing Down of America? Are we, as a people, destined to go the way of the dodo bird? I don’t have the answers, but I do have the ...
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December 14, 2008
- So, I was home last Saturday and I heard this ruckus in the walls. It sounded like something with very sharp nails scrambling around. In fact, it sounded like my dog, Pippa. I called for Pippa, she came. Clearly she wasn’t in the walls. I followed the sound. It moved. It tinkered. It bumped. It was weighty—thunking. Then it was in the ceiling of the second floor, tumbling ...
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October 23, 2008
- I got an advance copy of the second (heavily revised) edition of my Oregon Wine Country guide last night, but I did not find it until this morning.That's because the man who delivers such things hereabouts is---in his words---"deathly afraid of squirrels."A few weeks ago, after he had dropped a package by the front door, I found him standing on the walkway, half way to the front gate, ...
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October 19, 2008
- In the past, I've defended squirrels, especially from my friend Julie. When we walk at the Berkeley Marina, she stops, holds my arm, and makes a terrible snickering noise when she sees a squirrel. Sometimes, she says things like, "Rats with fluffy tails."Other times, she goes on about the fact that they are where they shouldn't be. "Environmental issues," she says. ...
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April 25, 2008
- A couple of weeks back, Dashka Slater wrote about squirrels in her blog and provided a link to a squirrel video that showed the persistence and perhaps insanity of squirrels. I responded there with a squirrel video that I had been watching of late, one involving a very tricky little birdfeeder that gave the squirrels quite a ride should they try to steal the seed. Of course, this a ...
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