Thoughts of my Day...

Thought of the day: I just realized something, as I am digging in my front yard, I drove to a city in the northern part of lower Michigan and it took 2 and a half hours to get there. On my way home from work, it takes 2 hours and 20 minutes, of only 41 miles...Weird, huh.

Of all of the flowers there is a...Look a squirrel!!

I was sitting on my front porch today and saw a squirrel run across my neighbor's grass, trying to cross the street. He got to the curb, hesitated for a few moments and decided to run across the street as soon as a car was coming. I was thinking, this isn't going to end well and I am not going to go out into the street with a shovel and scoop up its mangled body.

Surprisingly, the car missed the big(little) dummy by inches, considering that the guy driving decided to slow down as soon as it got very close to the squirrel.

Anyway, that got me to thinking of a few squirrel encounters over my lifetime. Most of which were when I was living in a duplex in Detroit way back in the middle 90s.

The first time; this was before camera phones. I did have a camera, but I didn't feel like going and getting to film this strange squirrel. I was lying on my bed and I hear this strange noise in the backyard, mind you, behind my home was a Little Caesar's Pizza place.

So, I got up from my bed and looked out the window. climbing up the tree, backwards was a squirrel with a whole pizza in its tiny mouth! I guess the pizza was just sauce and cheese. If that is what you like, go for it.

The second time; I was sitting on my front porch drinking a Gin and Tonic, smoking a cigar, when all of a sudden I hear a muffled thud and loud, "Whoomph", the sound you make when you get the wind knocked out of you. Across the street, a squirrel had a misstep and fell out of a tree onto the sidewalk.  A minute or two later, it shook itself and proceeded on its way like nothing had happened. And I am the one sitting there drinking.

The last one was kind of sad, sort of. I like cats. I've had as many as 20 cats in my lifetime. As I was sitting on my front porch, as I usually did, every day, drinking and lighting up another stogie, the neighborhood cat was bouncing by dragging a squirrel in its tiny mouth. I know that this particular cat just had kittens, a while before, and was going to feed them or herself some fresh meat. I hope it wasn't the squirrel that likes pizza. It's a cat eat squirrel world out there.