We can only wish we looked this adorable with a dusting of snow on our nose.
This week’s Saturday Squirrel, dealing with our massive accumulation of almost no snow as best as he can…
Have a great weekend everyone!
We can only wish we looked this adorable with a dusting of snow on our nose.
This week’s Saturday Squirrel, dealing with our massive accumulation of almost no snow as best as he can…
Have a great weekend everyone!
For all of the hassles winter weather may bring, if there’s one good thing about accumulating snow, it really makes for some great squirrel pictures!
OK, maybe that’s not a worthy justification. But still, we have today’s pair of squirrels whose antics in the snow four winters ago come in at #32 on my All Time Saturday Squirrel countdown!
Squirrels are pretty greedy and territorial creatures, and if an alpha squirrel gets to a food stash before you, you’re probably going to starve. Take our poor little guy on the ground there, digging for any bits of seed and corn that may have dropped out of the birdbath that the squirrel on top is busy stuffing his face with.
Fine, be that way. I’ll just lay under the tree over here and die and have my death weigh on your conscience the rest of your life…
Awwww, poor guy. And he was really cold too! Check these pics out…
He’s practically shivering here!
What a big meanie you are!!!
Need some help weathering the storm of the upcoming week? Well, The Nest will have you singing in the rain in no time! It’s Monday, and that’s the day we scour through the almanac to find another great hit that got swept away in the flood of mainstream music from that giant cumulonimbus cloud of thundering lost hits we like to call the Dusty Vinyl Archive! DJ Scratchy’s your weather girl, and has she got news for you. While the Sponkies are trying to recreate a tornado inside a two liter bottle. Hail hail to rock and roll…
Thirty years ago sometime in the early 90’s, I was watching a weather special hosted by WGN (based in Chicago, but broadcast all over America via cable TV) meteorologist Tom Skilling…. and during one montage of severe weather, a song played over the background that I had never heard before, but it certainly stuck with me. Then I heard that familiar chorus again not long after in those infamous 70’s Preservation Society ads, as the song was one of the 23 “Top 10 hits” (more on this later) to be included on their compilation album, and it was played over the telephone number at the end.
It wasn’t until YouTube came along about fifteen years ago that I was finally able to listen to the full song…. which isn’t quite as good as that soul stirring refrain I grew to love, but still, this song deserved to be MUCH better remembered than it was…
Chi Coltrane may be one of the most obscure, but celebrated one hit wonders to ever wander into a recording studio… at least according to her short and not-very-well cited Wikipedia page. Although American born and raised, she was apparently more successful in continental Europe. But in the US, she will always have her 1972 song “Thunder and Lightning,” which despite the 70’s Preservation Society’s claims to including only Top 10 hits on their album, only made it to #17 on the Hot 100. I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song on the radio before, and may have never run across it at all if not for my fascination with weather…
Be warned, another Lost Earworm Watch is in effect for next Monday…
Any hopes I may have had of getting some good squirrel in snow pics on Wednesday were dashed by the fact that while plenty of snow fell overnight and into the morning….. it was melting before it could ever pile up. Our 3-6 inches turned into a scattered dusting, and drainage by afternoon….
But charging up the battery and making sure there was plenty of eats out for the critters wasn’t totally in vain. I got a few good pics, including the one above! My camera usually loves to smudge up photos taken on a cloudy day, but it got this adorable furball in full focus and looking quite sharp! Looks like he’s happy to see us!
And really, is there anything cuter than a fat, furry winter Saturday Squirrel?
Have a great weekend everyone!