Today is one of those weird amalgams of a day when we celebrate everything from cheesy socks (that’s every day for me) to sweatpants (also pretty much every day for me) to hugs (with family and friends, of course that’s me) to … squirrels.
Sometimes they’re annoying, like when they raid the bird feeders or uproot your plants so they can hide their nuts and seeds (that they’ll forget about, which is inadvertently a good thing when they sprout). But they can also be funny and endlessly entertaining. Kevin, Sarah’s backyard squirrel, may be expecting some love today, though …
There was a squirrel gang that used to harass Luke. He was not a fan.
Kevin is amusing in his acrobatics. Not so much his sometimes breaking in to where the seed is stored.
Those squirrels are everywhere! But not in the restroom.
One of the members of the squirrel gang that used to mess with my boy.
All right, how many dancing squirrels can there possibly be? Image found on me.me.
But first he needs to find some hair dye so he won’t stick out quite so much. Image found on funnyjunksite.
Here we see the dizzy squirrel in its natural habitat. GIF found on gifbin.
Hold it, people! Settle your butts, I’m tryin’ to talk here! Photo by Carl Wilkinson found on BackyardSquirrels.
And if you don’t mind, could you spare some pecans … and peanuts … and whatever other nuts you have … thanks! Image found on Pinterest.
No, squirrel, you can’t come in, so stop scratching at the window. Image found on Pinterest.
Photo of Autumn Squirrels by Susan Schwarting. Weird quote by Stephanie Brown, who might have been thinking about celebrating squirrels and hugs at the same time.
Apropos one of your comments, I was shocked years ago when. I asked a rural cousin how squirrels kept track of where they stored their winter stash. They don’t, he explained, but they can usually find nuts that some squirrel stored.
Spare some nuts for the squirrel whose wife is making almond cakes? I would offer this female squirrel some of the members of the Cult of Donald Trump but I suspect that any cakes made with these Trump Nuts would poison and kill anybody who tries to eat one of them after it has destroyed the cognitive abilities of anyone who eats one of these special cakes.
I made a squirrel guard out of a freely-moving plastic trashcan lid for the bird feeder that mostly worked, except for one wily guy last year. It sometimes took him 20 or 30 minutes of trying to make it but he did, often. I called him Edison. Gotta admire such perseverance! Haven’t seen him this year, guess he’s gone to squirrel heaven.
I don’t know that any sort of guard would work on Kevin. Sarah did put up a little picnic table feeder for him at the fence, but then the birds started going to that and it made Kevin mad. 🤣🐿️
Sometime in the 1980’s shortly after the Beastie Boys recorded their song about “Girls”, someone else who called themselves the Beastly Boys recorded a parody of this song but the Beastly Boys version was about “Squirrels”.
The two fiddle tunes which come to mind whenever someone mentions squirrels are “Hunting The Squirrel” and Squirrel Heads In Gravy”. We played the second tune Friday evening for the Arkansas Country Dance Society’s dance.
At first glance, I thought: Where is she going with this? However, I’m glad you were able to find some clever content you had squirreled away in the crevices of your mind. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
I'm a retiree in his seventies. That may not be significant to many, since there is a bunch of us Baby Boomers around. However, in the year 2,000, when I received a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma, I expected to be dead in three to five years.
Serenity is a fuzzy belly 
Apropos one of your comments, I was shocked years ago when. I asked a rural cousin how squirrels kept track of where they stored their winter stash. They don’t, he explained, but they can usually find nuts that some squirrel stored.
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Spare some nuts for the squirrel whose wife is making almond cakes? I would offer this female squirrel some of the members of the Cult of Donald Trump but I suspect that any cakes made with these Trump Nuts would poison and kill anybody who tries to eat one of them after it has destroyed the cognitive abilities of anyone who eats one of these special cakes.
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I made a squirrel guard out of a freely-moving plastic trashcan lid for the bird feeder that mostly worked, except for one wily guy last year. It sometimes took him 20 or 30 minutes of trying to make it but he did, often. I called him Edison. Gotta admire such perseverance! Haven’t seen him this year, guess he’s gone to squirrel heaven.
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I don’t know that any sort of guard would work on Kevin. Sarah did put up a little picnic table feeder for him at the fence, but then the birds started going to that and it made Kevin mad. 🤣🐿️
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I have tried to write something deep about squirrel situations, but it is buried in my mind and I have forgotten where it is.
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Sometime in the 1980’s shortly after the Beastie Boys recorded their song about “Girls”, someone else who called themselves the Beastly Boys recorded a parody of this song but the Beastly Boys version was about “Squirrels”.
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The two fiddle tunes which come to mind whenever someone mentions squirrels are “Hunting The Squirrel” and Squirrel Heads In Gravy”. We played the second tune Friday evening for the Arkansas Country Dance Society’s dance.
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And last but not least, there is that infamous song about a “Mississippi Squirrel Revival” which was recorded by Ray Stevens.
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At first glance, I thought: Where is she going with this? However, I’m glad you were able to find some clever content you had squirreled away in the crevices of your mind. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
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Gave me the smiles I needed. Thank you.
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