Black Squirrels

Last night, between dinner and painting bricks for door stops, Stephanie and I decided to take a walk. We hadn't gone very far when we noticed a black squirrel out on the lawn. I don't know how it got to be black... but you certainly don't see black squirrels every day! Well, unless you live at Western. Anyway, back to the anecdote. Stephanie decided that it would be fun to chase it, so we were creeping up on it, and she was taking pics and videos on her camera. We were making all sorts of woopsie-doo comments about the creature, when this guy comes up next to us from behind. He seemed, shall we say, tentatively amused. After a few seconds, he continued on his way, leaving Stephanie and I to pursue the black squirrel and now a grey one, too. Blacky found a wrapper from a peanut Odwalla bar that someone had dropped, and was going to stash it away, as squirrels are wont to do, when the mean grey one stole it away. The grey one proceeded to agressively defend its new source of peanut-flavored crumbs, while the black one tried in vain to get it back. Eventually, the grey one ran up one of the giant maple trees with the wrapper. A few minutes later it dropped the wrapper, and Stephanie and I ran over and tried to snatch it out of the air! What fun... We tried to give it back to the black squirrel, who was still scampering around the area, but it didn't actually want the wrapper at all. It just wanted a friend. In my opinion, the grey squirrels hate the black one, so its only friend options were Stephanie and I. Poor little guy... Next we saw a grey squirrel with a small dark grey squirrel. They were a pretty chummy pair. Anyway, squirrel-watching is actually quite an entertaining fling, if there's plenty of space to do it in. All in all, it was a fun evening of romping around with the squirrels and observing their unique social system. Stephanie has decided to change her major to Zoology, subtitle: squirrels, focusing mostly on the social behavior of the genus. (hahaha!)
The brick painting was fun too. We did a white background; orange/red swirls on one part, and our room # in various shades of blues and purples in a very artsy arrangement on the rest. On the sides we did two-tone strokes of l.blue and white; it's very Donna Dewberry one-stroke painting. *gag* hahaha!

Merry Michaelmas!