Pi Day Squirrels

Top of the morning to you friends,

Though technically it's not morning any more, but hey it's St. Patrick's Day. Right now I'm consuming some green Hostess® Snoballs® I just got surprised with and jamming to my St. Patrick's playlist. I also got surprised with a Light Up necklace from Wal-Mart and  let me tell you folks you turn this on you don't need a flash light. I've done distributed the stuff I made/bought for everyone and tonight I'll be making our Irishish themed dinner. I''ll do a special post on all that next week.

For this post I'll be talking about things that happened on that mathematical holiday Pi Day. First off no we did not eat a squirrel pie. The only thing I consumed to commemorate the day was a round cookie. Thing you got to know about my family is we still rely on wood for our heat every year. This year we've had to gather up wood every few days instead the big fall wood gather we have cause of my my Dad's back problem's, apparently it's something that's flared up due to I think breaking his back at some point in his life. Well on Pi Day he was looking at a tree that had a squirrel's nest which he was pretty sure was an old one, he even went as far as grab a great vine hanging near it and shaking it up against it, and there was no signs of life so he figured it was safe. So he cuts it down, and when he cut the chainsaw off he hears squeaking noises coming from the nest. He looks and to his dismay, and something he didn't expect this time of year, was three baby squirrels. By a miracle of God not only had they all managed to survive the nest falling, and not be crushed by the tree. We gathered them into a basket with a towel in it, and sought out advice of what to do. Fangirl kindly provided us with this link from our local nature center with what to do. I wish I could tell you guys we were ably to reunite Momma and her young ones, but this was not the case. We did as the page said and called our local rehabilitator. So I at least know they are in good hands, even if  it's not their Mom who we didn't hear from until I think the next day. She says they were probably around a month old, which meant they came along during that warm spell we had and nature went into Spring mode. We were reassured by the woman she would probably have another litter by fall, it eases the sadness over it a bit, but still not entirely. Even though we knew them briefly they still managed to worm their way into our hearts.

I got a pic before they moved onto their new home

I do know they were two boys and a girl. So I dubbed the boys Einstein, since they were found on his birthday, and Lumberjack, given the nature they were found and their future tree living, and the girl I call Pi cause well Pi day.

I hope you have a good St. Patrick's Day my friends. May God bless you all.
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