Spring in Oak Square: Co-existing

It's raining lightly now; the lightening and rattling of the walls has ceased, (sadly it was too short a session, in a previous I was a storm chaser, i just know it) The tulips and grape hyacinth may enjoy the rain; much more than the naughty Gray Squirrel  that seems to have lost his nest in the sole Sugar maple.
Fingers crossed they don't pick our home to dwell in again.

I need to get my brood out.

She did with our assistance finally get both babies out of the soffit.
The exclusion solution would not allow her re entrance.

He she just won't take no for an answer when it comes to the bird seed, he*she loves the black oil sunflower seeds with such a passion I tell you this critter drooled all over the bird feeding shelve the other day.  
Blue skies and sunshine and a wet load of seed and a Squirrel as the proof he she drools oodles!?


Okay I do have to take some blame, every winter I feed the little buggers,
as my heart goes out to the fully tailed acrobats slip and slide along their roads of fence and branch, desperate for a morsel in a snow covered earth.
 I bribe them, I do should they get hungry enough to jump a beloved Chickadee or a Titmouse and Feed them down below, it's just never enough.
Never.


The little brat(s) seems not to learn their lesson, no way no how. 
Shot with my water gun, long absences of food, feeding him/her peanuts down below, back up the deck the long clawed thieve comes, leaving their drool and calling cards on the rails.
Chewing at the soffits for nests, stealing the paper bags filled with garden debris for their nests ( think they'd hit the recycle bin nooo the purchased ex large bags becomes target, not ( it was funny to see) but a tall heap of leaves and twigs left behind and the paper reminder beneath them.




Remember Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott book, Life is a Game and these are the rules? 
Know now that the rules do not apply to Squirrels; not the Squirrels that come clawing on my door... (lol) expect for rule 11, you bet they usually will forget where they buried their peanuts, digging in every pot ever bed till they find it, or something to appease their (like all of us) never ending hungry.

1. You will receive a body.

You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons.

You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.

Growth is a process of trial and error: experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."

4. A lesson is repeated until learned.

A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end.

There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here."

When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you.

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Life is exactly what you think it is.

You create a life that matches your beliefs and expectations.

10. Your answers lie inside you.

The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

11. You will forget all this.

12. You can remember it whenever you want.

12, I think 12 is the clincher that they would remember it, their lesson, their peanut if only the little Dare Devils wanted... 
There is no keeping up with Squirrels, now excuse me whilst I put peanuts on the shopping list,  maybe  they will stay off the bird feeder on deck if I keep bribing them down below, it's all I can do, co-exist with the entertaining, annoying & partially kept Hoodlums.
Humour aside, be aware that Gray Squirrels is a big problem in this area, they can be both a pest and a fire hazard if they start to chew on your electrical wires, like other rodents these animals chew constantly, seal any easy access to your home.

Squarely Squirrely the Peanut Lover