6.17.2009

Critter Wars, or Things to Entertain You in Your Retirement

The mental image given to me by my father this afternoon will have me entertained for days, I believe. He said that a woodchuck has returned to their neighborhood, and my dad caught sight of the critter dragging around a Cub Foods plastic grocery bag in the back yard. The mental image I have is of a woodchuck dragging a half-full bag of perishables across my parents' lawn, no doubt pinched from some poor neighbor who turned his back on the groceries as he was moving them from car to house.

I believe my father is planning a war against the woodchuck. What a life retirement can be.

My next mental picture is this:



And that is why I'll be amused for a while yet to come.

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