The Pumpkin - Summer Update, post #25!

[Karen]

They are Canada geese! The ones at the "duck feeding area" near here can be kinda obnoxious, if you let them. I had one even nip my fingers taking bread from me!

Squirrell has made much more progress on the pumpkin, but I didn't catch her at it today. I'll try for another picture tomorrow, if the weather isn't too awful for her to be out nibbling!

[IRescue452]

I didn't even know squirrels ate pumpkins. And we have a good two dozen pumpkins around the yard every year. I guess we'd better stop feeding them seeds and nuts and see if they go for pumpkin.

Canadian geese scare me. If you've ever watched a herd, they act just like small raptors. They fight and bite and hiss. My mom doesn't mind getting surrounded by a few hundred when we go to the bird sanctuary, but I run. I've seen the results of goose bites. They take chunks out. And I've had the joys of being chased by an angry goose when I got too close to his family. He flew at me like a bat out of hell. I'm waiting for them to go extinct.

[jennielynn1970]

Canadian geese scare me. If you've ever watched a herd, they act just like small raptors. They fight and bite and hiss. My mom doesn't mind getting surrounded by a few hundred when we go to the bird sanctuary, but I run. I've seen the results of goose bites. They take chunks out. And I've had the joys of being chased by an angry goose when I got too close to his family. He flew at me like a bat out of hell. I'm waiting for them to go extinct.

Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way!! I know I'm weird, but sometimes I'm just not sure how weird. Now I'm feeling more normal, lol.

I still can't walk down the back road at my mom and dad's place without diverting to the middle of the road for about 1/2 mile. I had a groundhog run out of the brush on the side of the road, snarling and foaming at the mouth, and she chased my butt so far down that road! I never thought I would see a groundhog run so damn fast! My dad said she was probably protecting babies. I said she was rabid. The ones in our parks down here just lay in the grass and sun themselves and look cute. The one I had chase me was nothing even close to cute. Whoever said growing up on a farm was such fun and you learned so much.... they needed to grow up on our farm! Dealing with all the critters and creepy crawlies and stuff, all it did was make me appreciate city living.

[Logan]

I was just wondering what I was going to do with my pumpkin. Hate to throw it away since it still looks good. I think I've just found my answer thanks to Karen and Sara! Do I need to start a hole in it or will they just tear into it by themselves?

[Karen]

No need to start a hole - they do that themselves!

[Edwina's Secretary]

I had intended to carve the pumpkin when Shirley and Family beat me to it! Once I realized she could do a better job than I...I left it to her.

Here no squirrels.... My pumpkin finished the season untouched by cute little paws....

[Cataholic]

This was the first year our pumpkin was eaten by squirrels! Jonah was totally crushed to find teethmarks in his pumpkin. He cried and cried. Then, I told him how hungry the squirrels were, and this was a good thing, and I turned the eaten part around to another less obvious side.