There’s 1,001 uses for a squirrel.
It’s almost October, and that means it’s everyone’s favorite month of the year! Yes, as always, October is Squirrel Awareness Month! Thirty-one wonderful days set aside each year to better appreciate our bushy tailed little friends out there! C.K. Hope has gotten a jump start on her squirrel awareness by finding a creative but practical way to take advantage of what a squirrel has to offer!
If there is one thing I would like people who stop by to read my tripe posts to take away from my blog, it is awareness of our sciurine pals. Squirrel Appreciation doesn’t hurt either, but that only gets one day in the middle of January.
How NOT to appreciate a squirrel.
Of course, October is probably best known for being Breast Cancer Awareness Month…
Blaze has that covered!
But there are many other month-long October observances for you to celebrate while you are taking time to be more aware of squirrels! Like….
Photographer Appreciation Month!
National Liver Awareness Month!
National Crime Prevention Month!
Bat Appreciation Month!
Cut Out Dissection Month!
Lysdex…. er, Dyslexia Awareness Month!
National Chili Month!
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month!
National Seafood Month!
Right Brainers Rule Month!
Positive Attitude Month!
National Toilet Tank Repair Month!
And of course, we can’t forget…..
World Menopause Month!
Thanks to brownielocks.com for the compilation of October observances!
Evil Squirrel's Nest 
Amazing isn’t it? A friend of mine found a site that lists all that, um, nutty stuff. Oh, as far as being aware – you might want to go to my blog and check something out . . .
Oooh! I forgot it’s the big day!!!! Gotta go see…..
Congrats on the Sparkle Pony Award. 🙂
Thanks! I am honored to be taking him/her/it into my care!
A worthy opponent you are, ES. Take good care of my poneh. My..little…poneh…
King Limpy!! I need to add that to my blog.
National chili month TD!!!
I’ll take good care of your poneh, and post lots of pictures of it for you!
*sniff* Thank you…
I made some kick ass chileh on Saturday…and caught up on my reading on Sunday.
On the throne?
Where else would I sit?
LOL! Chileh! That’s great…
Chileh!!!
Oh my – we have a lot to be thankful for huh? Snorts XOXO – Bacon
Yes we do! I wonder how Rocky plans to celebrate next month?
We are planning spooks and mischief. It’s going to be so much fun!! XOXO -Bacon
And here I was thinking I was going to have an uneventful October!
People will always find an excuse to celebrate beyond the traditional holidays. If it exists, it probably already has its own day, week, or month. Happy being aware!
Don’t forget it’s also Stoptober, https://stoptober.smokefree.nhs.uk/, the most stupid idea I’ve heard, I shall smoke double the amount just to spite them, and pay due homage to squiggles instead, squiggles being what I call squirrels, ok I’ll just wander off quietly now before I make a complete a$$ of myself!
I’m not sure if we have a whole month dedicated to stopping smoking here in the US, but we do have the Great American Smokeout every November 19th. The obscenely high taxes on smokes and widespread bans on smoking in public places have been more of a detterent to American smokers than some silly month…
The irony is, is that I hate ‘real’ smokes, gave up on those years ago, roll-my-own now, believing they’re safer!!
Bats get a whole month and squirrels only get one day? Inconceivable I say! For the softness of their tails against sniffly sneezy noses alone they should get a week at least!
Congratulations on winning Sparkle Pony! I think … 😉
The squirrel lobby is not as good as the bat lobby is. That’s just the nature of the political game…
Thanks you! I wonder if Sparklepony’s tail is as soft and snottable as a squirrel’s….? 😉
i think you’ll be proud to know that the university of michigan, here in ann arbor, and my alma mater, was recently voted the most ‘squirrel obsessed campus’ in the country. i find it to be a great honor.
I remember Michigan had some kind of squirrel lovers club on campus, I saved an article I saw about it in the paper about 4 years ago. It’s great to see our youth have a fine appreciation for our urban wildlife!
I am already thinking of what a baby rainbow “ponkey” would like like. 🙂
LOL! That’s a great monicker! It just might happen…. (gasp!)
I reckon you are right! 🙂
Happy Squirrel Awareness Month! All of our neighborhood squirrels have returned to our balcony since the tragic tree trimming of 2013. And it looks like a few of the girls are preggers! We’re soon to be great-grandparents. Now I just need to clean the glass on the sliding doors so I can get some decent photos of our brood for you.
Did somebody say chilli? Mmm, chilli.
Congrats on winning the Sparkling Poneh. You were a worthy opponent! Until vee meet again, Mr Bond, I mean ES 🙂