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Just a few days after Cheria and I moved into our new home back in October we
noticed that our property had a tenant - a feisty
chipmunk had burrowed a
home for himself (or perhaps herself?) underneath the concrete patio out back.
Every day "our" chipmunk would scurry across the patio, gather some pine nuts from
under a tree and then scamper back to its hole.
This went on for about a month or so, every morning like clockwork. It seemed
that Mister (or Miss?) Chipmunk never missed a day of work! Then one day he
didn't show up according to schedule, nor did we see him the next day - or the
day after that either. It appeared that something had happened to our furry little tenant.
Several possibilities ran through my mind, most of them not so good...
Perhaps Mr. Chipmunk had gotten himself run over by a car? Or maybe he had had a
run-in with one of the dogs that run freely through our neighborhood? Or maybe
he simply didn't like his new landlords so he decided to vacate the premises? I
thought we would never know exactly what became of our chipmunk...
But a couple of mornings ago I was sitting at my desk typing away when Cheria
yelled at me, telling me to come quickly and bring my camera. I walked into
the bathroom and saw her pointing toward something out in the back yard - it was our
chipmunk friend sitting up "groundhog style" about 20 feet from the edge of the
house. I managed to snap off a few blurry pictures through the window screen
before he took about three steps and disappeared down a hole!
Apparently Mr. Chipmunk had been a little uncomfortable living literally right outside his
landlords' back door, so he moved...about 30 feet! But that 30 feet was
apparently just enough to keep him out of our view until it came time for him to
hibernate for the winter. But now we know that he (or she?) is still around and
we couldn't be more pleased!
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