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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (55796)	8/29/2002 9:35:47 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I did NOT go nuts buying books Speaking of nuts, I had a little wildlife encounter today. As you know, I spend a couple of hours a day in the pool. I usually have it all to myself, and today especially since the air and water temperatures were in the mid sixties. Some of the time I swim and the rest of the time I do aerobic exercises, like jogging. Which is deadly boring. So I've been watching this squirrel. I mentioned it once before a couple of weeks ago when I saw it panting under a bush. I thought it was having heat stroke. Apparently not. It was just waiting for me to look the other way so it could run up the lifeguard stand to the nest it seems to have there. The lifeguards always use the other stand. This one is at the deep end. A few days ago I saw it run up the ladder with a mouthful of grass. I was worried about it because I figured that when the pool was closed and secured next week, the nest would get dislodged. Well today the squirrel was running up and down the ladder. Then it came down with a mouthful of something that looked like squirrel fuzz. And a little later, another one. The first fuzz was grey and the second, black. We have grey squirrels here, but many or most of them are black, an oddity sufficient to have triggered an article in the Post a while back. This squirrel was black. Anyway, I assume what I witnessed was moving a nest with young to a more suitable location. I was astounded. I had never seen a baby squirrel, not that I got much of a look at these. Squirrels are usually all but grown by the time we see them. It was cool.