The War With the Squirrels
After a year of living in what was supposed to be a temporary apartment, we are finally packing up our boxes and getting ready to move into a new house. When my brother-in-law offered to build it for us, he said it would be ready in six months. I should have known better than to believe him.
The place where we’ve been living is comfortable enough, but since we didn’t plan to stay long, I’ve never done any gardening. The back yard consists of a dilapidated wooden platform that once held a hot tub and a couple of pretty nice trees.
I noticed a cardinal flitting around our neighbor’s yard and became determined to attract him to ours so we could do some bird watching. We hung up a birdfeeder filled with luscious sunflower seeds and waited.
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