What's on your mind? (2025) - good way to start... even if a bit early... :-)

Not About Food
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Look how cute Malabari squirrels are.

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Photo taken by me, from an exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

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Or you could just make super starchy pasta water by using less water – or the Instant Pot.

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Wow; interesting coloring? I wonder how that looks in their natural environment!

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Me, too!

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Thank you! I marked it as “tracking” so that I’m sure to see updates.

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I don’t doubt that in the slightest that I’m a worry wart (at least about these types of things). But I figure that my being extra cautious if not overly worried can basically not cause issues/impose upon others…just myself. It’s a difficult line to walk, but I think I need to try hard not to cross it.

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We have a squirrel interloper that’s new to me

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and I saw it do the flatten and wait thing!

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Cute. I might post some photos of our squirrels next time I see some.

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There was a pure black squirrel in my complex one year (well, maybe a really dark charcoal gray) and several years later, a mostly whiteish one. Don’t think it was an albino, although I never got close enough to see if it had pink eyes. But usually it’s just the typical gray squirrels that I see near me.

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I’d never seen a gray squirrel before moving to the US. Ours are all dark red and much smaller.

#eurosquirrels :grin:

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The one in my picture is apparently an “Eastern Fox squirrel”, which I think compete successfully with our Western Gray squirrel.

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I spent way too much of my life worrying about what others think.
Now with all the travails of life piling up, I’m more of a bull in the china shop kinda guy.
Sorta liberating.
:wink:

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Whereas our grays are just giant tree climbing rats. :grin: I’d rather have red squirrels with tufted ears.

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I have to admit I find them all absolutely adorable and hilarious to watch, especially when they’re chasing each other around in our yard :heart_eyes:

But we don’t garden, so they’re destructive nature is lost on us.

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I’ve had several climb my deck posts to sit on the edges of the deck. They know the boyz can’t get out, and they just sit there watching the cats chatter angrily at them for invading the property, essentially giving them the little squirdle finger. :fu:

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Chonky is obsessed with a chipmunk who may or may not still reside underneath our gas grill & spends hours at a time stalking him from under the dining table :joy_cat:

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I recall being quite surprised seeing black squirrels when I visited Toronto.

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We also have a few white squirrels.

And a White Squirrel Coffee Shop, too.

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There’s an incredibly kind and loving cashier at my local Smith’s supermarket who is usually manning the self-service registers and because of her kindness, I gave her a Christmas card last year telling her of how much I appreciate her. Now whenever I see her, she takes a moment to greet and hug me. And because I’m a BIG hugger and I not only don’t mind it…I enjoy it. So this recent entry from the NY Times’ “Metropolitan Diary” really moved me.

This is a link to a free access version of it:

And a link to the original entry:

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