Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 18, 2016
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Stone Soup by Jan Eliot Gramma Evie: Look at this scraggly mint...it's usually full of flowers and humming with bees by now. Val: Maybe it's been too wet, or too dry. Gramma Evie: OR...it's the SQUIRRELS. Val: Since when do squirrels eat mint? Gramma Evie: They get into the flowers and tomatoes. Why not the mint? Squirrel #1: They might be on to us. Squirrel #2: You and your mojitos. Val: ? Arnold: ? Gramma Evie: ?!
My sister had to anchor her rat traps. The foxes were dragging them off into the woods to eat the squirrels.The squirrels have done a lot of damage to her house and shed. The only reason she doesn’t shoot them is that she isn’t a very good shot with her pellet gun.