If my father were still alive, he would say: “Your yard is lousy with chipmunks, Mitch.”
The expression “lousy with” was
his way of saying you are being overrun.
I really do have a lot of
chipmunks hanging around my house this year.
I have never seen so many, actually.
At times, I may see three or four of them at once.
The chipmunks love streaking
along the brick ledge of my house and scampering along the rails of the
surrounding post-and-pole fence. Several
of them hang around my back deck. A
couple weeks ago, when I dried my clothes, the dryer huffed a chipmunk nest out
from the dryer vent. That chipmunk had
figured out how to open the flap and get inside the vent.
More recently, I spotted a
chipmunk with nest-building material in its mouth hanging around my barbeque
grill. It occurred to me that I might
want to inspect the grill. Posted today
is a photograph of a chipmunk nest I found in the burner affixed to the side of
my grill.
I never use the burner.
I left the nest as I found it
and covered the grill again. I can live
with the nest in the burner. I am not
sure if the chipmunk can deal with me using the other half of the grill from
time to time.
Chipmunk Nest
—Mitchell Hegman
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