It's June 13th, and it's raining. Summer doesn't officially begin until June 21, but this is ridiculous. Anyway, just a few random notes to keep you interested. The other day I saw a squirrel jump out of a trash can with a banana in its mouth! Now this is remarkable because I didn't know squirrels liked bananas. The banana was peeled, so either someone peeled a banana and then threw it away, or the squirrel found an unpeeled banana and somehow managed to denude it. This second scenario bears consideration, because if squirrels can peel bananas, there are no limits to their potential. (Isn't it queer that an "unpeeled banana" is a banana with the peel on, and a "peeled banana" is a banana with no peel?) Anyway, it wasn't a whole banana, but it was a fair 5 inch portion, and the squirrel wasn't even dragging it on the ground! This tells me that squirrels have enormous jaw strength for their size, and the banana was obviously not very ripe. Otherwise, the squirrel wouldn't have been able to get sufficient purchase on the banana to carry it in its teeth. Old Welsh Proverb: Squirrels may have strong jaws, but their teeth are small. The small teeth is what makes squirrels poor fighters, particularly when engaged against avian species. Just the other day I saw a squirrel on a high tree branch come under attack from a crow. The crow dive-bombed the branch and the squirrel fell off - I can only hope that it caught a lower branch, because it was a good 40 feet in the air when the crow attacked. If anyone out there has a backyard and squirrels, I can't say enough good things about the Squngee. When I lived in a house, we made a homebrew squngee out of parts purchased at Home Depot, and it was awesome. The squirrels would line up on the ground under the squngee, taking turns "riding the cob" until it was stripped bare of kernels. Seriously, that thing was better than TiVo.