Can’t sleep, squirrels will eat me. February 27, 2007 ~ 12:59 pm
Posted by Julie in : Da Cats, Random Insanity, Rick , trackbackThe squirrels behind my house are an endless source of entertainment for Joe and me. Well, moreso for Joe, they’re kind of like cat TV. We watch them scurry along phone lines, through the trees, and across our garage roof. I’ve always thought they must be kinda dumb, because they fall out of trees on a regular basis, but this morning I had my doubts.
When I opened the blinds this morning, I saw squirrel tracks in the snow on the garage roof. That was fun since we haven’t had a lot of snow this winter. And then I saw that the squirrels in their frolicking had made a perfect right triangle on the flat roof, with no other tracks through it. I called Rick over to verify this. He agreed that yes, indeed, my squirrels are geometry savants. I took a picture this morning but didn’t have time to upload it, so you’re just going to have to trust me on this one.
Then I started to think. What if the triangle is just the beginning? What if the squirrels are trying to send me messages and just put the triangle out there to catch my attention? I asked Rick what he thought.  “They could be,” he said. “Next thing you know, you’ll look out there and they’ll have spelled ‘Some cat’.”
Joe will not be amused.
Comments
Are you sure they’re not trying to signal aliens? Kind of like crop circles but in squirrel language.
I don’t trust squirrels. They’re like monkeys the way they play in trees and are kinda smart and devious, only cuter, which helps shake off some suspicion. But I’m on to ‘em….
I’m sorry, all I got from that was ‘garage.’ Do you have a garage?
KtP~Landlady has a garage, I do not. That’s okay since she has a car and I don’t.
Michael~I saw one streak by last night as I was leaving work with half a bagel in its mouth. Apparently, the ones here are also New Yawkers, in addition to being cute and devious.
Vince~Maybe. “Take us with you, it’s cold here!”
When my nephew was very little, he looked out the window and said to his grandmother, whom he called Nanny, “look Nanny, grasshoppers.” My mother though man this kid has good eyes! She looked out the window and saw the squirrels, they do hop through the grass.
We have squirrel jungle gyms in our backyard, otherwise known as bird feeders.
I love that subject line. Simpsons, right?
We have lots of squirrels outside my apartment that entertain my 3 cats all the time. And occassionally we’ll hear their pitter pattering across the roof and the cats get all wound up. It’s entertaining, and I think the squirrels know my cats can’t get them, cause they’ll go back and forth on the trees from one side of the apartment windows to the other.. it’s rather entertaining.
Whew. I don’t have to hate you now.
sounds like the squirrels are triangulating like some sort of Furry Green Berets
Wow! That is amazing and scary. You better keep an eye on them. First geometry, then comes astrophysics and world domination.
What is it with the squirrels falling? We’ve lived here almost six years and my husband has fished two dead squirrels out of our spa in that time. We have various theories.
Keep watching for further messages on the roof.
I don’t have squirrels at my house anymore, which is kind of sad… but Rocky would probably just eat them, so I guess its ok.
I think there’s a whole lotta stuff going on between animals that we, supposedly highly intelligent humans, don’t have a frickin clue about.
On squirrels falling out of trees…in Canada we had a little red Nazi squirrel who fought all the other squirrels over “his” territory…or at least that’s what it looked like to us highly intelligent humans. Anyways,
Nazi squirrel engaged in a particularly vicious fight with another squirrel.
Nazi squirrel fell from our huge, Black Walnut tree to his death. I hate to admit that I felt kind of bad, as I bet you may have, Julie…you ol’ softie.