{"id":7552,"date":"2014-09-27T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2014-10-26T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:06:53","slug":"oops-youre-back-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/oops-youre-back-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops, you&#8217;re back early."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went on a road trip! It was so much fun. We drove all the way to Vancouver, British Columbia and I learned a lot on this trip. I learned that sitting in a car for eight hours is not that hard. The hard part is getting out. My first few steps out of the car, I looked like someone recovering from a bad fall&#8230; who was just learning how to walk again. But that aside, we really had fun. \u00a0Denis and I were together 24\/7 and we were still friends when we got back.<\/p>\n<p>What I missed most of all was my cooking, and my beautiful house. We came back a day early and the first thing I did was go out to the backyard to see my garden. I wasn&#8217;t surprised to see a \u00a0squirrel but he was definitely surprised to see me. He froze for a moment and stared at me thinking, &#8220;Oops, you&#8217;re back early. And yes, I have one of your apples in my mouth. Goodbye.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t run. He flew across the yard so fast all I could catch was his tail flying by faster than we drove on our trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9094.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7553\" title=\"IMG_9094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9094.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9094.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9094-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>He ran up a tree, looked back once (I&#8217;m pretty sure he thumbed his nose) and disappeared. Seeing him made me realize I needed to check my pomegranate tree because the fruit will be ripe soon and I don&#8217;t want this mangy, rat-faced, no-good, low-life, beady-eyed, scum-sucking, apple-stealing squirrel to get my pomegranates. Too late.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9124.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7554\" title=\"IMG_9124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9124.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_9124-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I know squirrel teeth marks when I see them. But the pomegranates were still green! So now I was forced to pick all the green ones off the tree and try to ripen them in a window. There were only two that even started to turn red but he hollowed them both out. It&#8217;s too painful. I decided to remove the tree and buy my pomegranates at the store. I can plant some flowers there and at least there will be something nice to look at&#8230; until the deer show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went on a road trip! It was so much fun. We drove all the way to Vancouver, British Columbia and I learned a lot on this trip. I learned that sitting in a car for eight hours is not that hard. The hard part is getting out. 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