Check-in post September 11 2022

[wiseheart]

Hello to all members, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

Note: I'm just jumping in for badly_knitted while she is having computer problems. Therefore the daily check-in posts might lack certain details. Please, bear with me, and happy crafting!

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[badly_knitted]

Squirrel drama part two. No, he hasn't managed to get himself run over yet, but it's not for want of trying.

Today I decided I'd deal with the grass and weeds growing out of cracks in my driveway, and it's a good thing I did, because I was working away when an Amazon Prime delivery van pulled up with a package for my neighbours across the road. When the driver returned to his van though, he didn't get in and drive away. Instead, he left the van blocking the road and was wandering around peering under it. I figured he was having mechanical problems, but no. When a car coming the other way stopped, he called out an apology.

"A squirrel's gone under my van. It's on the wheel."

Well, that got my attention, so I said something like, "Oh, don't tell me he's causing trouble again!"

To which the driver asked, "Is it yours?" Um, no, it's not a pet, just a silly wild squirrel.

Luckily I hand my thick gardening gloves in my pocket, so I pulled one on and looked under the van. Sure enough, there's a squirrel sitting on the inside of the wheel, so I fished it out and tried to get it to go up a tree. It refused, so I took it into my driveway and it squirmed free.

I was worried it might go in the road again, so I picked it up yet again, found it preferred sitting on my hand to being held, and I took it down the garden and shoved it in the apple tree. It stayed there for a while, but next time I was out back it climbed down and started following me until I told it I'm not its mother and to go be a squirrel. Where it is now I have no idea, but somehow I doubt that's the last we'll see of Cyril the Squirrel.

Also transferred more files to the new laptop. So much I've got to remember *sigh*

[smallhobbit]

I look forward to hearing more tales of Cyril!

[badly_knitted]

I'm just hoping he learns to stay off the roads.

It flashed through my mind that maybe he'd watched too many prison escape movies and was trying to stow away to someplace better...

[darkcedars]

I doubt Cyril has much of a life expectancy.

[badly_knitted]

That's my concern, unless he smartens up fast. His mum should be teaching him squirrel lore, but it looks like Cyril is going it alone. I live in dread of finding him squished on the road.

[wiseheart]

Cyril is a great name for a squirrel!

[badly_knitted]

It seemed fitting.

1st comment replied to on the new computer! I just got all my internet stuff set up, it's taken forever *sigh*

[spiralicious]

Cyril is turning out to be quite the handful. Hopefully he learns to stay out of the road.

[badly_knitted]

So do I. No sightings so far this morning, but he's been causing trouble in the afternoons, so...

[spiralicious]

Clearly he's either resting or trying to lure you into a false sense of security.

[badly_knitted]

He's just devious enough to do something like that!

[yarnofariadne]

Cyril likes to live dangerously.

[badly_knitted]

And he won't live long that way!

[annofowlshire]

Yikes. A tame but not very smart squirrel!

[badly_knitted]

Apparently he doesn't know he's supposed to be a wild animal =/