Whoa. I'm out on the screen porch, and I just saw a squirrel fall

[Redstone]

about twenty feet out of the old lady (the maple tree in the back yard).

He dusted himself off and went back about his business (raiding the bird feeder).

I wish I could take an impact like that and just stroll away from it.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Redstone!

Ah, maybe the squirrel can do feats like that...

But he can't sit down at your computer and talk about it afterwards, now can he?

Still, I hear ya!

:hi:

Good to see you in these parts...

[Redstone]

2. And I love to hear Mrs R, with her accent, say that word:

She pronounces it "Squee-rul," instead of the average American "Squrl."

(And we don't mind them raiding the bird feeder. We figure that if they're clever enough to do that successfully, they deserve some of the seeds.)

Redstone

[Roon]

8. my grandfather enjoys watching the squirrels in the feeder

just as much and he enjoys seeing the birds.

[mwdem]

3. I have one in my backyard that's quite entertaining.

He does backflips off the trunk of our live oak, and plays with the wisteria vines on top of the pergola if I'm outside. We do feed him walnuts, and he figured out the bird feeder. Cute little fellow.

[tk2kewl]

4. F = ma

just get your weight down to that of the squirrel

[Redstone]

5. That oughta work. Given that I'm six-four, I should be shooting for

a waist size of about two centimeters, yes?

No more spaghetti & meatballs for me.

Redstone

[struggle4progress]

6. Few months back I saw a squirrel plummet from a tree top down onto my roof edge and then

roll off the roof edge: it's another twenty feet down to the ground from there. Dead squirrel, I thought. I'll have to go claim the body. So I strolled around the side of the house to look for where it fell. Not a sign of it anywhere. Poor thing musta still been motive

[foxfeet]

7. Last winter a squirrel was raiding our old bird feeder,

when the cord holding the feeder snapped. The squirrel had an "OH, SHIT!" expression on its face as the feeder plunged down about 12 feet to the concrete below. Apparently unhurt and unfazed, the same squirrel resumed the raids when we repaired the feeder. We don't begrudge the squirrels (although we refer to them as "the best-fed squirrels in North America") because of their entertainment value. I've gotten a couple to accept peanuts from my hand and the mama squirrel had a batch of four babies that lived and played in our cedar tree in the front yard.