almost last squirrel entry. (a rather dumb one at that.) had to cut off that bird feeder. little squirrel managed to eat about three inches of bird-food. that's a lot, even for a furry non-bird. I will now seriously have to try to somehow outsmart the squirrels. (=mission impossible?) a chain of christmas lights is illuminating my living room (two more chains are still artfully packed into their little boxes, awaiting their deployment into the post holiday nights. Some more stamps were delivered today. Some of them were not even actual stamps. They were the memories of stamps. Transformed into objects enclosed in air tight blisters. I like the word blister. It is so close to blizzard, except completely still. Squirrels are so wickedly smart.