I’m finally starting to tell my squirrels apart. Now that I have them pegged down, it’s actually quite easy to recognise them. ”Blackie” is the biggest of the bunch, and darker than the other two. ”Reddie” and ”Stubby” (or ”Stubby-tail”) are otherwise much the same, but easy to separate thanks to Stubby’s tail – looks like Stubby has lost an inch or so of the tail, so it’s not only shorter but the tip is also more square than round.

I’ll post a picture of Stubby the next time I get one.

We have been getting plenty of snow lately. In fact, since the New Year’s Eve, there hasn’t been any 24-hour period that we wouldn’t have gotten some new snow. It doesn’t mean that we now have an excessive snowcover, because the snowing hasn’t been that intensive and then in between the snowfalls, the snowcover has melted or just packed down on itself. Anyway, I measured half a meter yesterday, so we now have more snow than we had at best last winter (47.5 cm in March).

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Why ”You shoulda bought a squirrel”? Because I can’t look at a squirrel without thinking about Rat Race!