The Squirrel Sign -- Photo of the Week 26 Oct 2009

Remember the squirrel that somehow got stuck in our wall, and kept us awake by clawing all the time? Probably not. Anyway. Squirrel stuck in the wall.

I wasn't here for it last year but Josh M says something similar happened, and that after a week or two the clawing stopped because, well -- because the little dude died. The real problem arose when management -- oblivious to the well-established fact that unburied corpses tend to reek -- took forever to come bust the wall open and take him away.

Well, our most recent squirrel stopped moving a week or so ago. Now this sign is taped to that same wall.

Maybe it's some annual thing the squirrels have decided to do? Probably not. We have annual things we do, but those are called holidays, and usually involve less mortalities and more celebration, I believe.

Management hasn't come yet. Nor has the stench. Yet.

Coincidentally, I just did a Ghost Tour up in Gettysburg, learning about places haunted by previous inhabitants who died in their homes, on battlefields, etc. I just hope the spirits of the dead squirrels don't permanently haunt the place. This approximates my worst-case scenario:

Yup. You guessed right. The feared Clown-Squirrel.


Happy Monday, all. Good to be back.