The Big event

[Ham]

The biggest holiday, second only to Groundhog Day..

Here's a card for you all..

Remember, October 7th through the 13th. If you can't be aware of them, at least try to avoid running them over..

[ex70sHouston]

I try my best to avoid running over them. It tears the meat up to much. A .22 to the head leaves the meat the best for the BBQ.

On a more personal note let me say that with 2 pecan trees I still have never gotten a pecan because the little tree rats get there first.

[Ham]

Well.. you could always try buying them off. Feed them something they like better than pecans..

maybe.. shelled walnuts?

[Ham]

hmm. Maybe the festivities of the week should include:

1. The proper feeding of squirrels. No, don't give them doughnuts. Ever see a Squirrel that resembled a basketball?

2. How to find out where they REALLY put all of those pecans..

3. A how-to presentation to instruct individuals how to cover the car's breather tube at night, so that the squirrels don't mistake it as some kind of hole in which to stuff acorns..

4. Community action committees. Perhaps planning on construction of squirrel bridges over the road to protect them from careless drivers. Yes, the bridges do exist some places..

5. CPR and first aid classes, so as to be able to revive the last one you ran over..

[now I see]

Geez, that squirrel looks fat!  He must be getting ready for winter and eating all the nuts!

You know when I went WOW in Wisconsin in '77, we often were given squirrel to eat as a gift from one of our twig members, it's real good when it's stewed!   

[Ham]

Who'd want to eat a squirrel??

Oh yeah.. WOWS, they'd eat anything..

My wow brother made tripe stew. I thought it tasted kinda funny.. but when I saw the empty container in the garbage.. I had to resist the temptation to smother him with his own pillow in the middle of the night..

[now I see]

I've never eaten tripe or menudo, but I understand it stinks so bad many people won't eat it cause of the smell, it is also an aquired taste I hear.

Good thing is squirrel is always good, and the meat is sweeter next to the bone!

Edited September 27, 2007 by but now I see

[Ham]

Ah yes. And let me say, it would require the duties of a Master Chef to hide the said odor..

dear WOW brother was a chef.

You're right.. it is a good thing that the Squirrel is always good.. at least for him..

[waysider]

Well, in my neck of the woods, there are actually quite a few white squirrels.

A hundred miles north, there is an abundance of black squirrels.

No joke,

They are really both just variations of the Grey's squirrel.

I have yet to hear of anywhere in between that can boast a population of rainbow coalition squirrels but, HEY!, who knows for sure?

[Ham]

Well, they say a squirrel of any other color is still a squirrel just the same..

[socks]

Squirrel Rescue!

[ChattyKathy]

We had these in Ohioand both seemed puzzled.

[Ham]

The albino squirrel looks pretty neat..

ah.. two days to go..

[Ham]

Soooo.. did everybody live through the "week of terror"?