Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 23, 2015

Arlo’s been watching too many old westerns.

Rodents… vermin…

Tree rats

At least Arlo would have a target!

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Two gun Arlo stops them in their tracks when he walks into the yard behind those swingin’ doors.

“Then I ducked my head, and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the yard,

And a woman screamed, and the lights went up, and two squirrels lay stiff and stark…"

Sometimes I make a sound like a hawk and watch the little birdseed stealers freeze in their tiny tracks.

I go through 3-4 pounds of raw peanuts every month. Entertainment for my indoor cat.

and somewhere a chair would creak…

“It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.”― Charles M. Schulz, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy

Arlo is just the sidekick in this one. It is Luddy who is or would be the cause behind the sudden stop in piano music.

Around my place they just keep on doing what they were although several will start making warning “chits” from the trees. But the, I don’t have a cat. The coyotes and cougar like to snack on cats.

This one eludes me. If squirrels had a piano, WHAT would stop?

Two dead men got up to fight…

The piano would stop, as in the old western movies when Ringo would walk into the saloon and throw down on Doc Holiday, yada, yada. Everybody freezes, including the piano player.

Thanks, guys! Another of those days when I have to come here for the crib notes.

Well, the piano would stop, briefly …