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Fluffy Tailed Acrobats

Fluffy tailed performers Chitter chatter among themselves No one listening, everyone slathering Juicy gossip Taking daring fifteen foot leaps and dives From magnificent heights, barely landing on Tiny branches. Flinging themselves with wild abandon And oodles of faith into the air, flipping and Swirling. Contortionists. Sliding up trunks the way others slide down. Landing with a well-earned acorn in their jaws.

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M. L. Kiser

Date: 3/8/2019 11:00:00 AM

I've a gazillion of them in my yard; every year, they get my pears as soon as the peek out of the green; I haven't had any pears since one built his nest in a tree and invited friends and family. Oh well, they have to eat, too. That's the way it goes.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 3/8/2019 4:47:00 PM

We have four gigantic squirrel nests high in our yard, and I think each nest houses a colony of them.