intruder alert

Hazel, Dax and I were sitting in the living room yesterday when I heard some noise coming from the kitchen. The window was open, so I told myself it was just a noise from outside. When it kept getting louder, I convinced myself that someone had broken in and was rummaging my kitchen. I mustered up the courage to go peek, and about had a heart attack.

There was a squirrel sitting on my counter top!

I grabbed the babe and dog and ran out the door. I called Isaac (he was at work) and he said he was going to call Bishop Spence and see if he was home, so I hung up the phone and called Kathy at the same time. Within a minute, the entire clan was over to save the day. Ben was even wearing a superhero cape- he meant business.

here you can see the squirrel on the screen. he kept running up and down, up and down, trying to get out. this is the screen he chewed through, but couldn't figure out how to get back out.

Geniuses that they are, they opened a window in the dining room and coaxed him to it. As the squirrel leaped from the kitchen to the dining room, I screamed, Hazel cried, and Addi ran for the front door. Finally the squirrel made a dash for the window and was gone. Phew!

He had eaten through our screen to get in, then munched our our bread and a pan of brownies that was sitting out, and I don't know what else, so everything in the kitchen went into the dishwasher or was heavily cleaned. The lid on the formula was partially open, and since maybe, just maybe, his grubby little paws touched it, into the garbage it went.

As Ben was leaving, he said to Kathy, "I want a squirrel to come inside our house". If you are a good boy, Ben, you might just get your wish, especially since the same thing happened to another family on our block.

Wiley little devils.