Flying Swimming Pools and Baby Squirrels

Hurricane Gustav passed through two weeks ago. Nothing seriously bad happened to us. We lost some shingles and the skirting on our trailer, and we were out of electricity for 6 days but we made it through.

The big oak trees dropped some limbs. It took a team of us most of the day to clean up. Grandmother next door had a huge limb about the size of a car fall and block her whole driveway, but it missed her house.

Our shed is never anything nice to look at, but it looks even worse here. The opening into the shed is actually part of the wall next to the door that blew off. The door was wet so it was swelled shut. I had to step through the opening in the wall to get into the shed. Luckily, that section stayed in one piece and we were able to reattach it. The shed and the barn both lost a couple pieces of tin off of their roof, but they were easily repaired too.

When we started to pull the limbs to the road, I turned and almost stepped on something wet and fetus-like. I screamed like a little girl "Ack! A rat!" Then I realized it was a baby squirrel. We found two others. They must have been blown out of the tree. We've been feeding them and we plan to reintroduce them into the wild, where hopefully the owls won't eat them.

Now its time for the requisite cute baby squirrel pictures. It's a squirrel on a towel.

Its a squirrel on a shoe.

Here we are nursing the squirrel. Mom, if you are reading this, this is your grand-child, er I mean grand-squirrel.

By the way, if anyone sees a wayward mama squirrel, send her my way. She's abandoned her children. Last I heard, she was gathering nuts in the tree by the strip club down the road, chattering at all passerby.

Finally, I have one more piece of media to share with you. A flying swimming pool. Isn't the internet a wonderful place, where you can find all sorts of things you didn't know you wanted to watch? Did you ever think to yourself "I want to watch a swimming pool fly"? Probably not. But here you are, just about to press play. You can't resist. You know you're going to watch it.