If you recall, last year I mentioned how I was having difficulties with HERMAN, the squirrel and how he was able to climb the pole to the bird feeders and no matter what idea I came up with.................he would outsmart me....................until I finally gave up(Feb 2010 are you smarter than a squirrel). Well a friend of mine happened to pay special attention to my dilemma and sent me the attached video on how to fix the problem.................once and for all. OK, HERMAN............BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIbY_IWT3fk
I haven't seen HERMAN all winter ................but...........I know he's out there somewhere and is just preparing himself to meet up with me..........soon!!!! He has his direct contact with ACME, the same place Roadrunner deals with for all his ........."outsmarting tools." There are still peanuts buried in Margots flower boxes from just before winter and I know he will eventually wake up hungry. OOHH sorry, he's a rodent not a bear!!! however, if you see the mess he can make of her flowers looking for peanuts you would think he was a bear. Margot's not very happy about that..................but...................just doesn't have the (whatever) to make a squirrel hat out of him. The birds, on the other hand, really don't pay any attention to him................EXCEPT.................the enormous black birds who...................just sit and wait until Herman tries to cross the street in front of a car......................doesn't make it.........and BAM!!!!! they are down on him.
Anyway, Spring has begun to show it's little sign with the little shoots of flowers trying to push their noses up through the little snow that hangs around from our dumping of 3" well OK! make remarks about that but to me that 3" was equal to 3' when I was thinking about shovelling it...............so I dumped that idea and came in and made myself another cup of coffee.
I had to call the city, this morning to remind them that I live at the bottom of a hill and with 3" of snow, I can't get my car up the hill and that I feel like a hermit in the forest. I also added the fact that the power has gone out and since our house is total electric, I can't even make a cup of coffee and being old I need my TV to watch Judge Judy and Springer. Well, they were very concerned about the whole situation and the next day in the mail, came a letter from the young lady I spoke with apologizing for the bad snow removal service along with the power outage plus a $3 coupon for a Starbucks as soon as I could make it up the hill. Wasn't that nice!!!!!! I decided then and there not to call her back to advise her that the truck ....................missed my sidewalk.
Well , back to Herman, I just saw the little bastard, running from one pot to another looking for his nuts..............better get my squirrel relocater up and running.
Come late April, Margot will once again begin working on her flower deck and I will put some photos of it online in this blog..............just to show you what I have to put up with every year........but it does keep her occupied and away from shopping. Not that she's a big shopper but is quick to always say......."she doesn't have a thing to wear." My only question is why does she have three closets and I have only one????
Well, like they say in Mississippi..............or is it Louisiana................or perhaps Alabama. That's all for now. Come on back...............Y'ALL.
