Pickles by Brian Crane for May 26, 2024

I take it that Roscoe is not a squirrel chaser.

Minions are the key to being a successful couch potato.

How about I refill your supply, instead.

Ain’t boys of your generation supposed to know how to use a slingshot, Earl?

He still has two socks he can ball up and throw.

“Shoes win battles, logistics wins wars.”

Needs Diamond Lil’s squirrel catapult.

Shoes are better than a bb gun i’ll say!

Hummm …. Never saw squirrels go after apples ;-)

This is like me sitting at my computer desk throwing highlighters at the sliding door of the balcony to scare the starlings away from the meal worms I put out for the bluebirds and cat birds. It works until I go through the six different colors of highlighters, and then I have to gather up all the ammo to reload. But at least I get six tries before I have to stop what I’m doing to fetch them.

I’m with Earl. Yesterday I spent chasing mockingbirds and squirrels out of our covered blueberry bushes. BB rifle keeps them moving. I hit wooden fence behind bushes.

We used to have squirrels that would got 50 ft up a tree, well stocked with green DR cones. When I’d take Arlie, my 140 lb Husky/Golden Retriever out to his pen, they’d throw the cones at us, hitting us in the head. Poor Arlie would YIKE! when they hit him! One day I came home from work and found a dead squirrel in his pen. I couldn’t blame him, he was paying him back!

The local squirrels have never shown any interest in the old apple tree’s apples.

Always remove tail and cook squirrel thoroughly before eating.

Wouldn’t be the same. Its not the shoe that gets the squirrel, its the foot odor.

Get a water gun……. it’s more FUN.

Earl is…foot loose and fancy free………..

Squirrels eat 95% (maybe more) of my bird feeder contents. Little thieves! But I enjoy their acrobatics.

Neighbor feeds the squirrels shelled nuts and they bring the shells over to my yard darn neighbor. I like watching them but not cleaning up their messes. If it’s not them it’s the birds.

Every autumn a squirrel leaves a half-eaten apple on the railing on our deck.

Nelson, where’s your grampa?On the porch, staring at his apple tree and throwing his shoes at squirrels. He wanted MY shoes too, but I figured I should leave.…I see it’s time to look into nursing homes….

Is this the first time we’ve ever seen Earl relaxing on the porch? Why doesn’t he spend more time here?

Now we know how his “comfy” old slippers got the way they are.

Can’t depend on Roscoe. He’s afraid of squirrels.

Squirrels were ruining our apples, taking a bite out then going to the next one. They had to be dealt with.

In the ’50s, my 22 / 410 over and under worked better than a shoe.

Plant sour things: Granny Smith apples, tart cherries, etc. The squirrels won’t touch them.

I’m not so sure that Muffin or Roscoe are upto backyard guard duty. They’re quite too comfortable, just like Earl. Chasing squirrels can be exhausting for the sedentary set. Nelson, go fetch your grand dad’s slippers.

The squirrel will be back with a vengeance

We had some sort of apple tree out front but Florida is too warm for proper development.

We had a nice crabapple tree in back but it got shot to pieces by a poor excuse for a renter after Mama and Daddy moved and rented to a deputy.

The long term answer is fried squirrel.

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