Wednesday Three
Three things this Wednesday, because there’s no time for more:
* I’d done about three miles on the treadmill this morning when a grayish blur caught my eye. It was a squirrel hurtling from Heaven. Or more precisely, hurtling from a rooftop. It fell through several whippy tree branches, somersaulted, hit the fence, bounced and twisted, then hit the ground and bounced again. I thought for sure the little guy was a goner. Instead, he leapt to his feet, glared at me, and scampered off. I gasped and almost fell off the treadmill. I am now told squirrels are tough little mothers, and this one was obviously a ninja. I am torn between the desire to go check the plum tree and see if he’s licking his wounds, and staying as far away from a Terminator ninja squirrel as possible for my own well-being.
* Today was, incidentally, the first day of school. The house is very, very quiet. I keep starting up from my chair, because it is too quiet, then sheepishly remembering that it’s not the silence of Children Up To No Good. I think I’m more nervous than the Little Prince and Princess were.
* I have two books fighting for the right to eat my brain first. Right now I’m settling back and seeing which one wins. They’re both under tight deadline, so I might have to send Necessity in with a baseball bat to restore order and cudgel my gray matter into behaving. That shoudl be fun to watch. *gets popcorn*
Huh. I wonder. Necessity vs. Terminator Ninja Squirrel. A fight for the ages, no doubt. I leave you with that hilarious little visual.
See you ’round!
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September 1st, 2010 at 11:28 am
Ah, thank you for the awesome image of 1) Terminator Ninja Squirrel, and 2) you nearly falling off the treadmill taking it all in. Love it! Your blog is always a highlight of the day. Thanks for making me smile.
September 1st, 2010 at 11:32 am
I got a couple of chunky chipmunks and some mourning doves to ad to that melange. And red squirrels.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:38 pm
“The house is very, very quiet”
Now why am I thinking of werehouses?
September 1st, 2010 at 10:14 pm
I’m rooting for Terminator Ninja Squirrel.
September 2nd, 2010 at 6:14 am
My house always seems too quiet on the first day of school too. It isn’t that my kids are particularly noisy. It’s just that as their mother, I have a constant awareness of what they are doing at all times, even when they are in a different room. When they are at school, I lose that awareness. It feels like my arm is cut off or something until a week or so into the school year until I get used to it.
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
squirrel ninja’s, I’m not really too surprised. Mind you there are no squirrels in my country. But we do have some mad tough possums, whose screech is worse than a cats! It can be a frightning sound at night, when your lying in bed and can hear them thumping about on the roof, screeching at one another, or at the cats.