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Thursday, February 21, 2008

As the Squirrel Turns



This short squirrel movie
stars Twirly, a squirrel so-named for regularly feeding happily from the “squirrel-proof” bird feeder while doing gymnastics. When the little show is finished (be sure to turn up the sound), it will twirl back here. Feel free to leave a comment telling me to get back to work already and stop watching the twirling squirrel.

;)

Or, for a completely different diversion, click here to read an excerpt from “Boyhood Days in Old Metuchen” by David Trumbull Marshall. In this chapter, Dr. Marshall wrote about a squirrel he was obsessed with when he was 12, circa 1877, right here in my town. I love the last two paragraphs from that chapter the best:

    “I tried for a long time to take a photograph of the squirrel on the outside and the two cats and the dog on the inside, but to get the combination of two cats and a dog and a good light and the proper hour of the day and time to make the exposures, took me more than two months.

    “I put my camera on a step-ladder outside of the window and rigged a string from the inside of the house to the trigger of the camera, but what with not having a white background for the black cats and what with the scraping of the string on the window-sill and what with two or three neighbors’ cats trying to catch Susie from the outside, I had some job getting even so good a picture as I did get.”

I HEAR YOU DR. MARSHALL!! Squirrels and photographs, who can resist?

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 12:58 pm  

8 Comments »

  1. I love squirrels!

    Comment by pat collelo — February 21, 2008 @ 3:06 pm

  2. From one squirrel watcher (mine are in Edison–we have a lot of nuts…eh…the pits…eh…fruits–oh, never mind!) to another, I really think you guys need to get out a little more!

    [hey Bob — Jules here — ;) you’re too funny!]

    Comment by Bob Langan — February 21, 2008 @ 3:09 pm

  3. I think the squirrels are looking for you - you nut!

    [Hey Heidi–I admit I’m nutty. Must be all those almond m&m’s. Squirrels, watch out! I’m coming after your food! —jws]

    Comment by Heidi — February 21, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

  4. I think that clip needs to go to one of those Funniest Video shows! I think there may even be one just about animals.

    Comment by SWC — February 21, 2008 @ 7:05 pm

  5. That is just histerical Jules! I had to hop on your blog to see what you were up to since you not on OSP! So THIS is what you’ve been doing with all your free time! :) haha

    Comment by Erin Cady — February 21, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

  6. I could have watched him twirl like ten more times. You should have made the slide show longer! I’ll just watch it again, and keep hitting replay, like I did a hundred times already.

    Comment by Steve G. — February 21, 2008 @ 11:06 pm

  7. That squirrel is quite a gymnast! I love it!

    Comment by Rick Rouse — February 22, 2008 @ 10:39 pm

  8. hahah! I love squirrels!

    Comment by Rachel Brooke — February 26, 2008 @ 12:46 am

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