All the creatures scattered for their lives! In an instant, they disappeared into the shrubbery. And in the femtosecond after they disappeared, a huge, winged shadow passed over me as a hawk swooped down and, having missed his prey, shot back up into the sky.
Nature red in tooth and claw! And I seen it fer myself, maw! It's brutal out there, just brutal!
But back to fun and games -- I'm getting a kick out of the squirrels, all eight of them. Most scatter when I open my door but one heads right up the stairs to meet me, and then he sits up and begs. I can actually hand him a peanut! Now, this may not seem like news from outer space to some of you non-city-bred folks, but to me it was like feeding Godzilla a raptor. It was way jungley. I liked it!
Guess I'd better come up with a name for him, huh? Rocky? (As I've mentioned here before, I'm not good at naming animals). Any suggestions from the peanut gallery?
2 comments:
I am going with "Secret" - Rocky is just too obvious. And in reality, how much do you know about this squirrel anyway?
Source for Famous Squirrel Names:
http://www.squirreltracks.com/famous/famous.html
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I like one of the Famous Squirrel Names: Slappy. I'll keep that as a fall-back name. Secret the squirrel, eh? Hmmm. I swear, character names come so easily to me. But animals?
By the way, I'm beginning to see what I think are scientist's tags on my crows. I find this extremely rude, as I wasn't consulted beforehand. I would have forbidden the banding, if asked. I will not have my crows wearing jewelry!
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