So Cool!

There is just nothing cooler than thinking "I'd like to make a stir-fry" and then going outside and picking fresh veggies for it. I grabbed a sizeable handful of green beans and chopped up the zucchini I picked this morning and have it all on the stove now. However, lunch was slightly delayed by my cursing out the squirrels for the billionth time. They dug through the potted caladium and geranium on the front porch, kicking dirt everywhere. I'm really quite shocked they haven't gotten into the vegetables. I spotted one hanging by his front paws on one of the tomato containers a couple weeks ago (leading me to go running into the yard waving my hands and shouting like a crazy person), but I think maybe they haven't discovered yet that there's stuff in the pots they can mess with. Obviously the containers are off the ground a bit, but it's nothing these squirrels couldn't overcome. They sure do dig through everything else. They've dug up and made off with darn near every bulb I've ever planted, in the ground and in pots. They dug up a potted amaryllis multiple times a day until I finally brought it inside. And then there's my poor garden gnome who has lost his elbow and the top of his hat from being toppled off his stump perch on numerous occasions by the furry little thugs. One of our neighbors (don't ask me why- she's lost a garden gnome to them too) installed a corn cob ferris wheel looking thing in one of the trees in her backyard for the squirrels to eat off of. Yesterday Eric found one of the metal spokes, mostly eaten corn cob still attached, across the street in our driveway. They're little terrorists.