The Lecter model.

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Tomorrow is trash day, and this ugly mug will be going away. But I just wanted to show you the difference between tough, east-side Detroit squirrels and wussy Indiana squirrels.

On Halloween, many of our neighbors mentioned how surprised they were that we put our uncarved pumpkins out on the porch so early. Everybody said, “Newbies — they’ll learn.” As it turned out we didn’t, probably because this was a bumper year for acorns and the squirrels were otherwise occupied. Still, when we carved them on the 30th we could see evidence that ours had been nibbled on. Not badly enough to wreck them, but enough. The neighbors said we were lucky; everyone on the block has a story about setting a pumpkin out in mid-October and finding it, a week later, entirely penetrated and hollowed-out by marauding rodents. “I knocked on my window at one of them, trying to scare him away, and he just gave me the paw,” one said.

I left this one out to show what damage those mofos can do in just a few days. Actually, I have to admit I rather like the results; the faces the squirrels make are far scarier than anything we could carve.

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4 responses to “The Lecter model.”

  1. mary said on November 7, 2005 at 12:09 pm

    Saw the Halloween photo of Kate, and I think you’re right. You may be looking at the not too distant future. Younger son Pete is in a charter school here, one popular with the more liberal sort of parent. I think Pete is one of the few kids with natural hair color, and that Halloween photo looks an awful lot like most of the girls in his class. Actually, Kate looks far more natural in that photo than most of the girls.

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  2. Rick said on November 7, 2005 at 9:35 pm

    Darn tootin’ about those Michigan rodents. Lived in Indiana for years, and never had problems with scarfing squirrels until we moved to Niles.

    But like moths to a flame, every October we keep setting out our pumpkins. And like sportswriters at a halftime buffet, those stinkin’ bushy-tailed buggers keep gnawing away.

    Got them good on one of our pumpkins this year, however. Just for fun, I spray painted one. Bet that tasted awesome. I can hear PETA knocking at my door now.

    Keep up the good stuff, Nance.

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  3. Rick said on November 7, 2005 at 9:36 pm

    Darn tootin’ about those Michigan rodents. Lived in Indiana for years, and never had problems with scarfing squirrels until we moved to Niles.

    But like moths to a flame, every October we keep setting out our pumpkins. And like sportswriters at a halftime buffet, those stinkin’ bushy-tailed buggers keep gnawing away.

    Got them good on one of our pumpkins this year, however. Just for fun, I spray painted one. Bet that tasted awesome. I can hear PETA knocking at my door now.

    Keep up the good stuff, Nance.

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  4. basset said on November 8, 2005 at 9:58 am

    awww, that’s nothing next to a Terre Haute squirrel. had one, or maybe more, I dunno, of those tear through a window screen to take an apple off the sill.

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