I was just over at mom and dad’s home unabashedly raiding the fridge and fixing me a few leftover meatloaf and ketchup sandwiches. (leftover meatloaf sandwiches rock!) I walked outside to smoke to see a very large glistening and slick haired creature in the driveway that looked like a beaver. It was a woodchuck of course as I got Dad to look into the backyard but the woodchuck was long gone. He was overly excited and glad he wasn't the only one who saw it as people were beginning to think he was crazy,
“We’ve also had a litter of foxes last week born in the backyard,” dad told me. “It was been an interesting spring. I feared they would kill Linda Spauford’s many cats, though.“
The Spaufords live next door to my father and my mother. “Up on the hill,” as we would say. Royalty. They have a kind of tarnished reputation within the neighborhood and a very bitchy persona about them. Dad loves to call them his majesty and her royal highness being facetious of course.
3 comments:
I would have thought that you were too close to town for woodchucks and fox to be that close! I guess we have put the squeeze on nature so much that they have little choice but to get closer and closer to us!
We see bald eagles, armadillos, bobcats, alligators and ospreys all the time down here!
Maybe you could turn dad's back yard into a nature walk!
Grannie
ahh time for the days cup of coffee and to relax and read andrews postings lol always interesting , you have such a great way of making meatloaf sandwiches sound so yummy that i want one too lol, you should write a novel or something , have a great day :)
You're sure it's not just a fat rat?
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