News flash: it’s a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon and I’m sitting at the window of a small hotel in Harrogate, looking out the window into a pretty little garden, working on my MacBook.. There are black wrought iron fire escape stairs coming down the building into the garden. About a half hour ago a guy came walking up the fire escape to the top level and in a few minutes came down with a Haveahart type animal trap and inside it was scurrying a little squirrel. I started talking to him through the window since I have three of these type traps and use them not infrequently for the various critters that roam our Northern California homestead. I told him about the country song, “Why would anybody eat beef when they can have squirrel?” Being civilized, he was going to take the squirrel and release him out in the countryside. (After which he’ll navigate his way through hill and dale right back here.)
Squirrel in the belfry
By Lloyd Kahn
on October 4, 2009
