The Pumpkin - Summer Update, post #25!

[Chica]

THAT IS SO ADORABLE WHAT THE SQUIRREL LOOKS LIKE AFTER EATING THE PUMPKIN.

[jennielynn1970]

LOL! True! But that was a funny story! I did something like that once at the beach with chips and seagulls!

Now that you mention it, I'm like that with those big geese we have in the parks. They have the white bands around their necks... not sure what they are called. They freak me out too, lol. They are just so brazen, and have no fear of humans what so ever, and almost demand what ever it is that you have. I loved Fairmount Park in Phila., but those suckers were everywhere!

[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.

[Karen]

Remember this thread? Well, Squirrell didn't eat ALL the seeds, she apparently planted one. Three days ago, I noticed something orange out my kitchen window, and when I went out and over to it, it was a flower from the smallest, most anemic-looking pumpkin plant I have ever seen. I wanted to take a picture of it to show you all, but it has rained every day since then.

So today, I went out with the camera, and - hey, no flower, in fact 4 inches of stem were gone. Drats, I thought, one of the neighborhood's kids must have picked it! I went inside to tell Paul, and he said "Nope! Early this morning I looked out and there was the wild bunny, in just that spot. I wondered what he was eating - must have been the pumpkin flower!"

So there will be no eentsy weentsy pumpkin this fall. But Squireel tried!

It's a very, very, very shady spot - moss grows well there. The leaves on a pumpkin plant are normally bigger than my hand - the few remaining on this one are maybe an inch and a half wide at the widest. It's amazing the thing made it as far as blossoming!

[Cinder & Smoke]

Well, Squirrell didn't eat ALL the seeds, she apparently planted one.

"Nope! Early this morning I looked out and there was the wild bunny,
in just that spot. I wondered what he was eating -
must have been the pumpkin flower!"

Sounds to me like a certian lil brown Hoppy Bridge Bunny sent an Angel Bunny down
to check on Mom & Dad at the ole Homestead.

You Guys prolly earned a 5***** Rating for the Snack Bar.

[dukedogsmom]

Sounds to me like a certian lil brown Hoppy Bridge Bunny sent an Angel Bunny down
to check on Mom & Dad at the ole Homestead.

You Guys prolly earned a 5***** Rating for the Snack Bar.

That was my first thought, as well! Maybe they'll see more of the wild bunny.