Earline doing tricks for Nonnie
Meet Earline. She's the daughter of Earl, the squirrel in my icon. Earl has gone on to the great Pecan Orchard in the Sky, but Earline is more tame than Earl was. Earline comes up on the porch and begs for food. Her favorite treat is peanuts in the shell and she will stand up and do tricks like balancing on her hind legs to get one. She also has taught us how industrious squirrels are. She will eat peanuts until she gets full and then she will keep coming back for more. She takes them and buries them in the yard. Then she comes back for more. And if you've ever wondered if squirrels can find the nuts they bury, they absolutely can. They apparently have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. We've seen a squirrel walk within two feet of a buried peanut and turn immediately and walk almost directly to it. In fact, one of the other squirrels (our granddaughter named him Curley because he's kind of Squirrley) spends some of his time finding and digging up Earline's buried treasures.
Earline will come when we call her (but we have to speak in squirrel talk which I learned in East Texas when I was young). Sometimes in the morning she waits on the front porch so we have to feed her when we go out to get the paper. OK, so I bet your question is who's training whom? Maybe you're right. But she's cute.
Earline doing tricks for Nonnie
Meet Earline. She's the daughter of Earl, the squirrel in my icon. Earl has gone on to the great Pecan Orchard in the Sky, but Earline is more tame than Earl was. Earline comes up on the porch and begs for food. Her favorite treat is peanuts in the shell and she will stand up and do tricks like balancing on her hind legs to get one. She also has taught us how industrious squirrels are. She will eat peanuts until she gets full and then she will keep coming back for more. She takes them and buries them in the yard. Then she comes back for more. And if you've ever wondered if squirrels can find the nuts they bury, they absolutely can. They apparently have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. We've seen a squirrel walk within two feet of a buried peanut and turn immediately and walk almost directly to it. In fact, one of the other squirrels (our granddaughter named him Curley because he's kind of Squirrley) spends some of his time finding and digging up Earline's buried treasures.
Earline will come when we call her (but we have to speak in squirrel talk which I learned in East Texas when I was young). Sometimes in the morning she waits on the front porch so we have to feed her when we go out to get the paper. OK, so I bet your question is who's training whom? Maybe you're right. But she's cute.