The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the squirrels and kittens are frolicking....

Yet it's 10 degrees below freezing. Something doesn't fit.

Both sides of the window screen in my attic room in my ancestral house is crawling with tiny beetles, and the corpses of the fallen litter the ground ( Read more... )

Caught another squirrel in the attic today. This one STANK. The others didn't smell (not that I stuck my nose into their fur the check), but this one smelled like a cow in a barn, and from a distance, too ( Read more... )

I caught squirrel #7 this morning. It's a small one, again, (I can't tell if it's a child or an adolescent or just a small adult, I don't know squirrels well enough, thought at this point I think it might be wise to start reading up on them.) and brown and dark grey fur ( Read more... )

While I was away in Boston, another squirrel moved into the attic. I discovered it late last night when I went by to put some stuff away ( Read more... )

Last week, there was another car accident on the corner of my street. This makes the 5th one this year. (That I know about.) I can only remember one from last year or the year before that. Weird ( Read more... )

Caught a squirrel up in my attic room at my parent's house today. Took it to Flushing-Meadow Park and released it there - I figure that's far enough away that it won't come back, and still gives it the best chance of survival ( Read more... )

My room in my parent's house is in the attic. It's nice, as it gives you privacy and a floor to yourself, but it also means you're far more exposed to the great outdoors then you otherwise would be ( Read more... )