attack of the florida squirrels

back from my trip to florida and just in the knick of time to get away from the "stocking squirrels" that haunted the last three days of my trip.

squirrels, squirrels, squirrels everywhere...or maybe it was just the one that kept following me throughout the weekend

SQUIRREL ENCOUNTER #1
saturday morning i went to let the house cat out on the back porch, but quickly slammed the sliding glass door shut when i saw a little furry animal go running across the INSIDE of the screened in porch.

with closer inspection, there he was, a frantic little guy or maybe girl caught harvesting on my mom's house plants.

so we shoowed the cat back from the door, snuck out onto the porch with hopes that this fuzzy friend was not in attack mode and propped open the porch door so there was a convenient exit for the flower gobbling fiend.

SQUIRREL ENCOUNTER #2
saturday afternoon, my mom, niece, nephew, sister and i went to get into the truck to go to the aquarium. as my sister went to open the door for the kids to get in, she screamed...there is a squirrel on the front seat....

could it be the same one? maybe?

so we shoowed the kids and my mom back to the front porch as my sister opened the drivers side door and i opened the passenger side door....there we saw the acorn on the floor mat, but no squirrel...nothing exited the truck...where did he go?

we got a broom and tried to sweep under all the seats and nothing.....hoping the squirrel managed to get out by himself, the family climbed into the truck and headed off to the aquarium.

all of us secretly hoping that the squirrel would not jump out from under the dash board and send us screaming off the road into the bay. (anyone remember that chris farley/david spade movie with the dead deer in the back seat that wasn't really dead...then you know how we were feeling)

SQUIRREL ENCOUNTER #3
and to complete the trio of squirrel encounters, sunday afternoon we were all having lunch after an afternoon in the pool and there sitting above us in the oak tree was THE squirrel...back again to wreck havoc on our sunny sunday...but instead, he patiently waited, summoned his friend and sat there oggling our hot dog buns and macaroni salad.

and because we are silly humans that think encouraging the wild life is a good thing to do, we made sure to toss out a few ends of the hot dog buns and feed these little monsters. an invite not to stop stocking our family, but to continue popping up in all the unexpected places.

can't image where they will show up next!