We caught a small red squirrel in our animal-friendly trap yesterday. We had put next our garden where some animal had been stubbornly struggling with pulling a ripe tomato through the wire fence. The tomato had been left wedged between the wires with the incriminating tooth marks so we tossed a couple of tomatoes in the trap-door cage, and sure enough - we caught a small red squirrel. It pranced and scurried and struggled with the ceiling of the cage. We discussed marking its tail, then relocating the squirrel at least 5 miles away - none of us were heading out, and I said I'd do it this morning.
This morning, the little red squirrel was laying in a still little curled up position. It died! Poor evil little animal, we were going to let it free but it didn't make it, and I felt bad for not releasing the night before. I'm not sure how it died, but here are my guesses: 1) cold 2) heart attack or 3) tomato overdose (it ate BOTH tomatoes in the cage).
Today I:
Interviewed as an Adjunct online English instructor after taking a Microsoft Office Skills test.
Was called back to do a demo lesson with the Somalian night school.
Met with the U of M person, straying from my well-prepared notes and receiving some relief to the number of classes required.
Visited Sherah at her bank, ran into the director of another school I had interviewed with a couple of weeks ago - they had never gotten back to me because (as he informed me today) they put a freeze on the position.
Waited a very long time for Sherah to which my banking question was answered but the "answer" isn't working.
Got my St. Paul schools ID badge.
Drove Sherah home.
Watched middle-school kids in after school program.
It seems I have my pots on a lot of stoves right now . . .
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