Nuts for the nutty

"Lookie, Lynn. Chippie is here! Let me at 'em!"

It's the time of year when the leaves are off the trees

and the walnuts and acorns are everywhere in the yard.

This is the time of year Precious is willing to stay awake

during the day and watch the patio for hours.  I gather up

a few acorns and put on the patio on purpose to get the

chipmunks to spend a bit of time close up. Otherwise,

they are constantly just running by with their heads full

of acorns. So funny to see their cheeks puffed out.

Then they get full and just sit and preen for the

longest time, not a care in the world. 

And there is the yard full of squirrels! Oh my. They are

getting walnuts and acorns, and burying them as fast as 

they pick them up.

And this is the only time I can call Precious out of  her

nap time and she'll answer to a word other than "chickie"

(my word for dinner time).

I just use an urgent whisper of  "Precious, chippie,

squirrellie, birdie" and I hear the loud thump of her getting

down from her bunk bed way down the hall to come out.

She is so funny to see, as she comes into the kitchen at a fast

paced crouch as a wild cat on the hunt.

"Well gosh Lynn, any respectable cat worth her

weight in acorns would come running to catch

this thief.: