When I came home and discovered one of our pumpkins had bite marks in it, I thought that Ellis must be the culprit.
"Ellis, did you bite the pumpkin?" I asked.
"Yes . . . I did!" he responded, with that cunning naughty-boy look on his face.
"Why did you do that?" I asked.
"I bite da pumpkin!" he declared.
I was pretty bewildered (Why would Ellis eat pumpkins and not macaroni and cheese?), until later that day when we returned home again, only to catch a guilty squirrel in action. He made quite a mess of pumpkin #1, and then he or one of his relatives got pumpkin #2 the very next day. As if we were just kind-hearted animal-lovers putting out a nice snack for the squirrels! Arghh. Someone told me to coat your pumpkins with Vaseline and the squirrels will leave them alone.
I wonder if Ellis would bite into a pumpkin if it was coated in Vaseline . . .
3 comments:
That's awesome. What a cute naughty boy. Good luck keeping those squirrels away.
Is that really what it looks like at your house? We threw out our jack-o-lantern on Monday and had to dig it out from under the snow.
I like your flowers!
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