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Sometimes perfect does happen. That's some squirrel human flow state connection.
You hang out with the squirrels a lot. Maybe you can help me make peace with my squirrel neighbors. Because we've been having a bit of a multiyear feud to be honest.
We live in a town and the squirrels live in the eaves of our house. The house was left sitting for like 2 years before I bought it and started fixing it up. In this time I suspect the squirrels got used to it being their own without sharing.... I've blocked up a few of the eaves where they used to live but there are still other eaves that they live in.
Their is family that lives in the eaves of our house, I don't know how many generations have been born and moved out or what in the 6 years of being here. I get that I may have permanently crossed them with blocking up some of the access to the eaves.
We started a garden 3 years ago and each year since. The squirrels wait until the eggplants are about 3 to 4 days from being perfect to pick and they take them off the stem taking like 8 bites out of them and leave them on the walk to the path or on the picnic table. Sometimes they stare us down from the top of the neighbors shed after we walk out to the garden and chase them away. I foolishly spent the first summer throwing things at them. I knew in my heart this wouldn't work, I knew it was hardening their resolve to fuck with us. I knew the Michael Jordan meme (And I took that personally) was manifesting inside them.
The next year we put out nuts and bread crumbs to try to appease them, offer peace. I don't think they touched anything we put out.
This year with the chickens it seemed that they had changed the dynamic and the squirrels seemed less interested in the garden. I kind of thought we had reached some sort of cordial understanding.
Well, a couple days ago we found an eggplant on the path to the house.
Do you have any advice for how to mend this rift with the squirrels?
Do you have any
You hang out with the squirrels a lot. Maybe you can help me make peace with my squirrel neighbors. Because we've been having a bit of a multiyear feud to be honest.
We live in a town and the squirrels live in the eaves of our house. The house was left sitting for like 2 years before I bought it and started fixing it up. In this time I suspect the squirrels got used to it being their own without sharing.... I've blocked up a few of the eaves where they used to live but there are still other eaves that they live in.
Their is family that lives in the eaves of our house, I don't know how many generations have been born and moved out or what in the 6 years of being here. I get that I may have permanently crossed them with blocking up some of the access to the eaves.
We started a garden 3 years ago and each year since. The squirrels wait until the eggplants are about 3 to 4 days from being perfect to pick and they take them off the stem taking like 8 bites out of them and leave them on the walk to the path or on the picnic table. Sometimes they stare us down from the top of the neighbors shed after we walk out to the garden and chase them away. I foolishly spent the first summer throwing things at them. I knew in my heart this wouldn't work, I knew it was hardening their resolve to fuck with us. I knew the Michael Jordan meme (And I took that personally) was manifesting inside them.
The next year we put out nuts and bread crumbs to try to appease them, offer peace. I don't think they touched anything we put out.
This year with the chickens it seemed that they had changed the dynamic and the squirrels seemed less interested in the garden. I kind of thought we had reached some sort of cordial understanding.
Well, a couple days ago we found an eggplant on the path to the house.
Do you have any advice for how to mend this rift with the squirrels?
Do you have any