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24 February 2006

i got so excited! →[More:]
I went outside earlier and wandered around with the intent on doing yard work, but was coughing too much and gave up on that. So I looked for spring flowers. Hundreds of crocuses are coming up (foilage) so soon there will be color color color! But a few more random ones were in bloom and I photographed them.

So anyway, I was doing this when I saw SOME sort of mouse-like critter scurrying around under a shrub. It was solid black and really fluffy looking. An escaped gerbil or hamster maybe? Anyway I quickly started trying to photograph it and then realized the cap was still on. It went into a hole and under a railroad tie. Bye-bye fluffy-whatever thing!

post by: weretable and the undead chairs at: 18:52 | 5 comments

Was it a shrew???

posted by Specklet 24 February | 18:53

Could be. It wasn't native, whatever it was.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 24 February | 19:00

Bless you, Specklet.

*provides handkerchief*

posted by urbanwhaleshark 24 February | 19:04

It was obviously an echidna.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 24 February | 22:22

Or a vole?

I am an hour north of you, Weretable, and have a few daffodils in blossom. There is a HUGE stand of ferile daffodils along a country road on my way to work, marking the long gone driveway of a disappeared shack. Last fall wonder boy and I dug up a five gallon pailful of bulbs and put a couple hundred along the 12" strip of grass between our sidewalk and the road. They seem kind of scrawny this year, but hopefully they will be spectacular next year.

posted by LarryC 24 February | 23:21

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