Just Another Monday

Most people go to work on Monday and drink their coffee and do their JOB.  I just captured a squirrel using a string attached to a stick that was holding up a clear rubbermaid baited with an apple core and a banana peel with peanut butter spread on it.

9:30 am Drinking my coffee and watching a squirrel fight a blue jay over a peanut and butter and jelly sandwich that I put our for them last night.

9:35 am Pass husband on the stairs as I race down them with a bottle of Windex.  Husband, knowing I must be up to something in order to actually have window cleaner in my hand: Woa, what are doing?  Me: There’s a squirrel fighting a blue jay for a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich and I have to clean the glass door because the pictures I’m trying to take of it keep coming out all smudgy.  Husband: Of course.

9:40 am Began documenting the debacle.  Just in case you don’t follow JustBarely on Twitter, or you don’t have my updates sent to your phone so you can know what I’m doing at all times, here’s how it went down (start at the bottom and read up):

What I failed to document was my first attempt at capturing a squirrel, which I botched by not pulling the string on time because I wanted to make sure its tail was all of the way in.  But then, amazingly, five minutes later the thing came back and I actually captured it.  Unfortunately I was too busy pulling the string to activate the trap and couldn’t take a video of the capture itself, but here is the amazing video I took documenting the post-capture.  Stay with it through the end–I promise, it’s worth seeing the thrilling conclusion.  Other scenes to watch for: At one point Steve lets the cat out onto the porch, hoping it would up the hilarity ante, but note the way the cat takes one look, decides he doesn’t give a shit what his idiot people are up to, and goes back inside. And now, without further ado, I give you the squirrel video (click on link).  You’re welcome.

And now that the squirrel situation and the documentation thereof has taken up my entire morning, I must leave this post unfinished so I can pick up my child from preschool.  I’ll give you background and pictures of what led up to the squirrel’s capture later this week.