What’s the only bad thing about going on vacation?
Knowing that the squirrels will have free uninhibited access to my back yard,
that’s what! All year long I have been out there standing guard, putting the
fear of God into those rabid, twitchy little rats. I have worked hard trying to
penetrate the dense thickets of their tiny pea-brains with the notion that my
yard was a place of death and destruction, hoping that at some point they would
desire an end to the slaughter, that the mysteries of the squirrel DNA would
reveal this deadly truth to them, and I would at last be free of them. No such
luck.
They keep coming. They devise ill-fated schemes to
penetrate the bird feeder; they cast covetous glances at my tomato plants.
Meanwhile, I pick them off one by one, killing a few, injuring many and scaring
the living bejeezees out of all of them. They never know exactly where I am,
because I come at them from all fronts, even going so far as setting up a
snipers nest in the movie room window upstairs where I rain down a barrage of
BB fire from the sky, hoping the pure terror of it will get through to them
that the back yard of my house is where squirrels go to die! But still, they
keep coming.
And now, for the next 10 days I won’t be there to
maintain order. There will be no death or destruction. I might as well put up a
sign in the pine tree by the fence gate announcing, “CRAZY MAN GONE…PARTEEEEEEY-TIME!!”
It’s almost enough to make me hire some trigger
happy teenager as a stand in. But, that wouldn’t work. The squirrels would know
that he was just a nervous kid firing off shots every time he saw something
move. They would laugh at me and my feeble attempts at deterrence. No, these
next 10 days belongs to them, and there’s nothing I can do about it, furry
little bastards!
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