Gravity Succeeds

[akirlu]

Well, so I was out in the back picking up apples from the lawn, like you do, and there was another of those rustle-rustle-THUMP! noises that are the syncopated seasonal music in my yard, accompanying the liberation of another apple from the tree and the simultaneous creation of a deadly, apple-shaped kinetic energy bomb.

Only this time it was more of a rustle-rustle-plop than usual. I look up from my crouch to see an adolescent squirrel has fallen out of our big apple tree and landed on the back stoop. After a stunned moment or two, she managed to swarm back up into the tree by way of a propped shovel, the chain link fence, and the straggly rosemary bush, and thus resume playing chase with another similarly-sized squirrel.

Which may be part of why the apples are falling at such a precipitous rate: the squirrels are playing tag all over the tree. I'm sure Kaylee and Tinka both are very sad not to have been out with me at the time. Look Ma, it's rainin' squirrels...

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Squirrel chase is fun. Makes me want to try parkour, but since I have no tail to balance me I feel it wouldn't work out.