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[yendi]

Home now. Am in immense amounts of pain. Between the two early-morning walks, the lack of exercise for weeks before them, and the constant stand, sitting, and kneeling, my legs are literally about to fall off.

Umm, otherwise the day was fine. Long, but fine. And it's over with. Leading right into tomorrow, which will be a motherfucker of a day.

I did manage to read two whole chapters in the second Janet Evanovich book during the two short breaks I had, though. :-)


Oh, and does anyone know if squirrels are supposed to be able to scale straight vertical surfaces? I know they're great climbers, but I watched a squirrel climb a wall today, and even pause multiple times while doing so and just stand there. Before I got close to it, I thought it was a the biggest lizard I'd ever seen. But now, I think it may have been bitten by a radioactive spider.

We have weird squirrels at Emory, anyway.

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[wolvy]

Squirrels are creepy - I didn't realize they could climb walls, either, until I got to Colorado. One of the first mornings I was here, I looked outside my window, and saw one on an adjacent building, three flights up...trying to get into a bird feeder left on someone's balcony.

Cree-pee.

[ex-ilk.livejournal.com]

I once had one scale the side of my wall, jump into the air and use my chest as a springboard to a nearby tree.

[podling]

Oh yeah... as long as there's something for their itty-bitty evil paws to grasp, they'll go straight up walls. When I was at college (don't roll your eyes at me bitchwhore!) there were ones that lived in a hole in the building opposite, and they climbed straight up to get in it. And they'd poke their cute, furry, evil heads out and be like, "Here I am, in this hole in the wall, lalalaaa." And there was one that used to sit outside our window and stare at us, but I think that's a different shade of evil.

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Squirrels are aces at climbing vertical brick walls. They do that at Ed's house, and they do that on my apartment building. There's one living in a tree behind my building who has learned that my upstairs neighbors have an (illegal) bird feeder, and that the birds drop seeds, and that these seeds land in the railing of my balcony. The railing is wooden and boxy, and there's a 3" wide space between the uprights of the box where the seeds collect. This particular Skippy (all squirrels are named Skippy) either jumps to my railing from a tree or climbs the brick wall to the railing. He's totally unafraid, too--he looks right in at me through the sliding door. He also likes to climb across the wall from the balcony to the outer sill of my dining room window--I think it's a shorter jump to the tree from there, but it's certainly weird hearing his little claws on the outer wall.

Weird/cool thing yesterday--there was a murder of crows in the Skippy Tree, and two of them kept flapping over and perching on my balcony railing. I was tempted to go say hi to them, but I didn't want to scare them off or be pecked at.