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so, some of you recall my past blogs about the hawk killing the pigeon, the baby crow (RIP) and the mama and baby raccoons all in my little backyard making for a little ignatius wildlife refuge.
yesterday i did some yard work and started in on the english ivy thats on one side of the fence. i hate the ivy. it grows like a mutated anime character consuming tokyo and i fear it will consume everything and i'll end up narrowly escaping with my life and then selling the rights to the story to steven king to write a screen play. so, the ivy wil be gone soon. i decided to just run over big patches of it w/the lawnmower set to mulch so that tomorrow or the next day when i go searching for the main roots of the mess it will be easier and as a bonus i'll have less to bag and dispose of.
this morning i'm having some coffee and i look out there and the squirrels are in a frenzy. oops. what'd i do? someone in the neighborhood leaves walnuts out for the squirrels which they bury all over the place and lots of them in my yard and lots of them in my much hated ivy. i knew that i was shredding some of their stash when mulching the ivy (new song title?) but had no idea they would all go bonkers and give me the evil eye and chatter up a storm and spell out WTF? on my yard in crushed walnut shells (this didn't happen but i imagined it!).
i'm sure they get just as pissed when the raccoons find their walnuts at night and eat them and then the next day a hungry squirrel wanders the yard looking for an unmolested nut stash hole (that sounds bad) only to find raccoon paws have scratched them all up.
I'm waiting for the showdown. squirrels vs. raccoons. the deciding factor will be which side the cats take. I know the hawks will sit this out. they can fly. fucking ay. i'd be indifferent to a battle among 4 legged creatures too if i could fly.
2 pics. 1 bewildered squirrel and one of the mulched ivy.. or part of it. you can see part of the fence covered in it.
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edit: added pic of the cat that spies on me all the time. he;s peaking in the sliding glass door in the photo. | |
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05/10/07
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tantan
ok I take it back, you're not a nerd
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05/10/07
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Highdropod
hilarious! dood, it took me 2 years to rid our yard of the english ivy. whoever brought it to oregon is an asshole.
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SenorFrio
You should talk to that cat. I think it has something important to tell you about the monomachine! This is a great blog btw! I think you should put a pond in you back yard... then the animal action will really heat up!
05/11/07
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quip
i love that cat. it looks so evil.
that rollins story is the best. it has all the quality of a classic fable. man vs beast. beast beating man and overcoming huge odds. i like the fact that nature is chaos and in its most raw state there is precisely fuck all you can do .
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