An Adventurous Squirrel

Today is records day for Ry, which means it's his last partial day of school where he turns in his grades and keys. We had made a pact to get up very early (think 5:15 am), enjoy our coffee together and do some laundry. Needless to say, that did not happen. I set our alarm to NPR and Ry snoozed it for two hours. I can hardly fault him because I don't think I really even heard it at all until about 7am.

After we finally got up, we sat at our kitchen table looking out the picture window with our coffee. Our neighbors Dick and Dolores come home every day at about 7:45, which leads me to believe that they go to daily mass, probably at Blessed Sacrament, just around the corner on Oklahoma. They are super cute old people and every time we see them Ry makes a comment about how we'll be like that some day. We watched Dolores pick up sticks from the yard that must have come down in the litany of rainstorms we've endured over the past week.

She went inside and Ry pointed out a squirrel scaling the brick wall of the attached garage on our other neighbor's house across the street. They've got a little hexagon venting window high up above the garage door with a hole in the screen. Ry said, they better watch out or they're gonna end up with squirrels in their garage loft. Sure enough, we watched the agile thing do a straight vertical climb and head for the window like he had sonar. Pretty quickly he was in the rim of the window, they we saw him peak his head in the screen hole. Next thing we knew, he climbed right in until all we could see was the tip of his tail sticking out of the hole and the shadow of him behind the screen. He got stuck between the wooden slats and ultimately didn't get inside, but what a close call. We decided we'll have to let them know next time we see the occupants coming and going. What a great little piece of free entertainment for the morning!

Also, supposedly (according to our goofy dog-walking neighbor who repeatedly sings her dogs' names at top volume as she walks them up and down the street) there was a coyote in her backyard at 1pm in the afternoon yesterday. Our neighborhood is just teeming with wildlife.