Perspectives

Although I missed them again, the redpolls had been around on the weekend. The word Monday morning was that Stephen’s tribe was pulling ahead in the popularity contest.

It was interesting to note that in the wake of the Boxing Day shooting in Toronto, the CBC called William Bratton for an interview and comment.

The return to full-time campaigning began in earnest on the first day of this week. The two leaders of the black squirrels, Paul and Stephen, were chasing each other up and down the trees, chittering all the time.

I checked my predictions from last year, and scoring a clean 60%, I am fearlessly going to try once again to predict what events will highlight the coming year.

It may have been the Christmas over-feeding that was keeping activity around the feeder on a happier note the first days of the week, but birds and squirrels were being quite sociable.

As a Humanist, I do not celebrate the religious aspect of the Christian Christmas, but I do take pleasure in the joy of exchanging little gifts with family and special friends.

It was very quiet around the bird and squirrel feeding station the first few days of the past week. The black squirrels were busy eating, enjoying some salted peanuts that I bought on sale at a discount store and found to be too stale for my taste.

The Beatles’ lament about a girl having a ticket to ride and so leaving the singer sad sounds not unlike the Dalton Gang talking about high school dropouts.

Monday morning the talk at feeders was all about beer. The other squirrels had quickly pointed out to Paul, the large black squirrel, that what his team had said about beer and popcorn was entirely wrong.

Anyone who openly or secretly supported the Graniteville ratepayers struggle with City Hall over the parkland had to love the reason the OMB gave for their decision.