Too many squirrels!

  The squirrels are taking over the place.  Those confounded critters do whatever they please...whenever they please!  Nothing is safe!  Between the squirrels and coons, the garden and fruit trees are kept devoid of fruit and veggies. That is not even enough to sate their appetites either. The birds cannot get a bite to eat and the cats' bowls stay empty.  

  The brazen antics of the squirrels are getting a bit too much.  This afternoon, the old cat slept peacefully on the lawn chair.  While she was dozing, a gray squirrel came down the oak tree next to her and chattered up a storm.  He fussed at the cat for being in his path.  Since Ms. Put is almost deaf now, she never awoke.  As I watched, the squirrel could not leave well enough alone.  Instead of sneaking around the cat and going on his merry way, he edged closer and closer to her.  I thought sure that the rascal was going to pounce on her at any moment.  If it had not been for a sneeze that I could not contain, there is no telling how close the pesky squirrel would have gotten to the cat.  I sneezed, the squirrel ran and the cat just kept sleeping.  

  The squirrel did not scamper far, though.  A sneeze is just not enough of a threat, I suppose.  It merely shimmied up the driftwood "tree" that holds a bird feeder.  There that rascal started scolding me.  The feeders are empty, he was hungry and I imagine he just thought I was lazy.