Dear Reader,
'What's the point? Everyday it's the same-old, same-old routine.'
Whoa, whenever those feelings start rolling through my mind it's time for an intervention. Because the truth is, every single day, if I'm looking for it, there's a new experience waiting for me or perhaps someone needs me to lend them a hand...
On my early morning routine of making the rounds to check on my plants and the Monarch caterpillars munching on my milkweed, I noticed a squirrel with his leg caught in the fence-edging that circles one of my flower gardens. The poor thing looked exhausted, but he wasn't alone. His friend (another squirrel who lives in our yard--I know because his tail is bushy on both ends, but in the middle it's missing all the hair), was pacing up and down the palm tree beside his trapped buddy.
As soon as both squirrels saw me they started loudly chattering and "hollering" at me. Nevertheless, I moved in for a closer look at the situation. And that was when the trapped squirrel's friend shimmied down the palm tree and was giving me a warning look of, "If you hurt him, you're in for it lady!" So I ran to the house, opened the door and yelled to my husband, "I think I need your help!"
Wearing thick gloves on his hands and holding a long, extended garbage picker-upper, my husband knelt down by the trapped squirrel. He used the extended metal rod as a barrier, so the frightened squirrel couldn't bite his hand, while he successfully freed its foot.
The two squirrels quickly scurried back up the palm tree, but not without a last look back, that I envisioned as a "Thank you."
'What's the point?' I'm sure I'll be asking myself that question another day, but today I rescued a squirrel and he rescued me.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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