If you read guest blogger Monica Wood’s charming series on an interspecies friendship, you remember Sonny, and his dear friends the squirrels. Sonny has been returned to the elements from which he was drawn. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1399′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
I’m remembering a glistening winter afternoon in Boston, Dan and I strolling through the Common on our way back to the train station after a theater matinee. I’d slipped some unshelled peanuts into my coat pocket before we left home, in anticipation of the famously tame Boston Common squirrels. Here, squirrelly-squirrelly, I said, then drew [...]
Looking back, I should have known long ago that I’d married a squirrel hater. We have a 100% squirrel-proof tube hanging on a clothesline between the kitchen window and a maple tree. 100% because Dan spent several amusing weeks engaged in a mostly futile battle of wits, then finally won. The feeder is now fortressed [...]
So, it seems that Nutley the squirrel paved the way for Frank the squirrel by softening up the mistress of the manor and her feline sidekick. Frank is shy and skinny with a nick in his ear, but clearly the brains of the operation. He snarfs more than half the peanuts in the time it [...]
Hi, readers of Hannah! This is Monica Wood, nonblogging novelist and FOH (Friend of Hannah). Our mutual friend’s all upside-down over a book deadline, so this is the equivalent of giving her tea and sympathy: six days off from blogging. I’m a nice person; ask anyone. A no-poison-in-flower-garden, recycle-cat-food-cans, save-the-marmots kinda gal. Saw An Inconvenient [...]
