Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for November 30, 2016

I expected to see the little red bird from yesterday with its beak caught in the nut.

He actually helped a squirrel? Has hell froze over?

In Oklahoma, there are little pecan trees sprouting everywhere from squirrel-planted nuts where they buried them and forgot where.

Squirrels are credited with planting the forests which originally stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River in the U.S.

Jimbo – an iron paw and a velvet heart.

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We have some squirrel-planted pecans, but every spring, we have a veritable lawn of red oaks. I give away the most robust before the first mowing – after the wild onion harvest. Ours are never in contention for the best yard award, but could be a winner of “the most productive without agriculture” if they had that competition. Plus blackberries. All on a 120×200 foot lot that is mostly structures.

One of the characteristics of a rodent is that their front teeth never stop growing and they have to gnaw to keep them ground down. Squirrels are designed for chewing through nut shells.