1. Squirrels
I don't have many tomatoes left in the garden, but the squirrels have made sure that there are even fewer for those last few tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches. They enjoy chewing holes in as many tomatoes as possible with their nasty little squirrel teeth. I wouldn't even mind if they ate one or two whole tomatoes, but they provoke my wrath by taking five or six bites out of eight tomatoes, leaving me with only a couple of good ones.
2. Squirrels
My neighbors have a huge walnut tree and the squirrels love walnuts as a main course after their tomato appetizers. I don't really care about the walnuts, but I do care about the little piles of walnut chewings that the squirrels leave everywhere - on the patio furniture, in the driveway, on the hood of my car, and on the steps into the house. I have to sweep up after the squirrels, and the walnut shells stain, so I have long-lasting brown stains everywhere.
3. Squirrels
I expect the %$#&^*! squirrels to chew tomatoes and walnuts, but their worst infraction was gnawing off one of my limes. I ran out and rescued it before they chewed on the lime itself, and now I've moved my lime tree indoors into Ryan's room.
I had to rescue the lime even though it's only the size of a large olive, but now I'm not sure what I'll do with it. Maybe make the world's smallest vodka gimlet, because anything is better than letting the squirrels have my first lime.
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Dale shares your feelings about the squirrels! We have a walnut tree, too, and something (although I didn't think it was the squirrels) took bites out of practically every tomato we have!
ReplyDeleteThose damned squirrels... they are treading on thin ice here too!
ReplyDeleteOMG. I'm so sorry!! I love the tiny lime! Are there more on the way?
ReplyDeleteThose pesky squirrels! In addition to causing havoc around here, they drive my dog crazy and I'm sure it's on purpose. When she goes for them, they wait until the last second, then scamper up a tree to the lowest branch and make those little squirrel noises at her and she just goes nuts! That gimlet looks good!
ReplyDeleteOh no! Not the lime!!! We have very few squirrels, though I see more of them in the winter running along the clothesline to get to a bird feeder. No large tomatoes for us this year at all - the weather did the plants in. The cherry tomato plant produced like crazy (still is), but the larger tomatoes split and rotted before they were big enough to pick. Not Happy....
ReplyDeleteSquirrels are crazy here this year, did you know they swim - we have them coming across our river and driving my dog crazy....its the year of the squirrel folks
ReplyDeleteSquirrels. Oh, the troubles they cause. . . My dogs try their best to keep them in check, but those squirrels just sit in the trees and TAUNT. (Don't tell me dogs I told you that. They like to think they are Most Effective in keeping them in control.) And Sharon is right -- they do swim! We see them up north in our lake once in a while. (It's the darndest thing.)
ReplyDeleteOh those black walnuts . We had a tree in Illinois. IT was just such a mess. Not very pretty as a tree either. The critters loved them
ReplyDeleteThey are very messy trees and they stain so much that I can see why walnuts are such an effective natural dye.
DeleteWe have the same problem, but with deer. They eat everything and love to taunt the dogs. The deer eat everything and will walk right up to our fence and stand there watching our dogs go beserk. They are fun to watch, but they make me crazy!
ReplyDeleteAh, squirrels... I have a kazillion in my backyard, and they spend a lot of time on my bird feeders. I finally gave up trying to grow tomatoes because they took one bite out of every tomato every time I grew them. All that time growing them, only to have the squirrels ruin them. And apparently they don't even like them! A funny thing has occurred with my squirrel population over the last few years. A few red squirrels have mated with the larger gray squirrels, and now all the squirrels are getting smaller and smaller, and several of them have red tails. It's been interesting to watch. I hope you figure out how to outsmart the squirrels. If you do, please contact me immediately.
ReplyDeleteI'll loan you Boone...and you can have a varmint removal planning session. He's on your side! :-) I'll discuss it with him tonight over a gimlet. xo
ReplyDeletethose pesky squirrels!!! WE have squirrels but I guess we do not have anything for us to notice their destruction. Now that darn bear...well he left a mark last year!
ReplyDeleteDamn those squirrels ......that would have been the biggest, best lime EVER. LOL
ReplyDeleteI once had a possum knock my pineapple right off the plant. I waited 18 MONTHS for that damn pineapple. He didn't EAT the pineapple. He ate the stem! So ..........it might not have been the BIGGEST pineapple ever, but it WAS one of the tiniest BEST pineapples.
Oh Bonny - what a great post - I read #1 and thought - yep! and then #2 and yep! (with a smile) ... and then LOL to see #3. I know a sense of humor is often the best way to deal with problems, but I still think a nice cocktail - with a hand grown lime! - wins. hands down. GO YOU!!
ReplyDeleteThose squirrels are such a pain in the neck. Currently they are chewing the railing on our deck. Previously they chewed off a piece of wooden trim on the edge of the garage door. They were also into my tomato patch. It is hard to find any redeeming value in their little rodent beings.
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOODNESS...
ReplyDeletei feel the same way about our vervet monkeys!
I've never been so happy about not having squirrels! The neighborhood hood next door has a squirrel and I always wondered why he never ventured away, but we have no walnuts and no tomatoes, so now I know. How happy am I he hasn't discovered our garden, which is a neighborhood away.
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