I Declare War!!!

Sooooo... I hung my birdfeeder the other day.  And overnight it was emptied by the monkey hanging squirrel.  I refilled it this morning and within a half hour my friend was back.  I was kind of irritated because he eats it all and I'm not buying pound after pound of birdfeed all summer because he's a pig.  Anyway, I quick googled how to get the squirrel away and everything said to mix cayenne pepper with the bird seed because squirrels hate it and it doesn't bother the birds.  So I did, and I put cayenne pepper on the birdfeeder and around the tree.  I sat back in my kitchen waiting...

Out comes the squirrel again.  He creeps over to the birdfeeder and dips down and quickly bounces back up and washes his face and paws.  Tries again.  Does the same thing and this time runs away.  So I'm sitting there feeling real smug and laughing hysterically.  Five minutes later he's back.  This time I see him kind of on top of the feeder and 30 seconds later I hear this crash.  The bastard chewed the cord it was hanging from in half.  Down came the feeder, cracking open and spilling the entire container of seed.  Next thing that happens, the little bastard calls over his friends and I have 8 squirrels pigging out in my yard!!!!

Well, it's war my little friend!!!  I put the feeder back together and was trying to figure out where to get cord like that, but then I realized I have some thick picture hanging wire and I wired that through the birdfeeder and then hung it from a garden pole.  I'd like to see his gums if he tries to chew through that.   I also put cayenne pepper on the pole, the feeder, in the feed and around the dirt.  I swear to God, if I see that sucker again I'm getting a slingshot!!!

Besides the squirrel drama I had lunch with an old boss today and then went to the apartment to paint the walls over and clean it.  I was finally vacuuming and glad to be able to go in a few and the vacuum craps out on me...so I had to come home and shower (cuz I was covered in paint) and then go back out to Target to get a new vacuum.  GRRRR.  By that time I was too tired to go back, assemble the vacuum and then actually vacuum.  Tomorrow I guess it is.  I'll be glad when I don't have to go back there again!!!

Of course I was too tired to go back and vacuum, but yet I came home, grilled, cleaned the weeds out of the patio cracks and put together my fire pit.  Hmmm, priorities.  It's hard to be motivated to go back to the apartment when I have my little house.


Maybe I'll have other priorities when I have to mow the lawn.  If you think the front is long, check out the back (with the kitchen reflecting in it).  I'm totally dreading this whole mowing thing - I'm afraid I'm going to chop off my toes or something.  I've never mowed with a hand mower in my whole life.  I don't even know how to use one!!!

Got a postcard today from Paris, France.  Woo hoo!  Oh, the little things that amuse me.
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Today I am grateful that the weather was nice, I got to have a delicious dinner of grilled shrimp and asparagus, and for my new vacuum - I rather like it!