Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 03, 2017

A big prayer to Sr. Teresa would help

My favorites is periods

Rats have lips in order to speak?

Politicians seem to have made a regular practice of that.

Not so much with squirrels, but with ground squirrels, certainly. They are brutal little dudes. I’ve seen an excess of twenty go into the burrows in fall and only two or three emerge in the spring.

There are two walnut trees on my property, and I have seen squirrels take walnuts from my property to my neighbor’s property to bury walnuts there. Much better to ruin the neighbor’s property rather than my property..

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t..

Jack: No, I’m going to go find a cow I can trade for some magic beans.

“Donner party, table for two. Donner party, ….”

Oh rats.

Isn’t that what young are for?

Rat Pak’s of smokes will curve the pallet!

Hold on to your horses as Thanksgiving is less than 3 weeks away.

How to decide who becomes a brisket hot pocket first. Draw straws? A lottery? Eenie meenie minie moe, strike the skull with deathly blow, if he hollers do not cry, the bits and pieces make a delightful meat pie.

Hmm. That puts the Big Question of life and death rather starkly into black-and-white terms, does it not?

Rats! They always get the big end of the stick (the better to beat them to death, as I saw my boss do in the place we were working)….

So now there is a Coopers Hawk in the area, which used to be the territory of a Redtail Hawk. The Coopers mostly eats mourning doves. When the redtail was around, there was a blue jay who took great pleasure in imitating the cry of a redtail hawk, when there was a gray squirrel crossing open ground. Apparently, squirrel panic is high comedy in blue jay circles.

Goin to town with the color brown, eh.