Our squirrel has come to the kitchen door looking for the Big Weasel. Peering in the window, but Big Weasel isn’t there. She will never be there in the same way again… She can no longer look out the window over her gardens. But her spirit will soar above and rest often there, among the squirrels and birds and all the flowers. And i know that is where i will find her most often now…

The Big Weasel is also getting ready for the trip. Though she still needs to get a new sunhat and some more shoes!

We hear from our friends that the weather there is really great! Lots of sun and dry (in contrast to here where it hasn’t stopped raining for so many days we are beginning to think we might need to build and ark!), with blue skies everywhere…

We can’t wait…

And so we made them a squirrel cafe. 

Now they come by for a quick nibble every morning (as do a few cardinals and bluejays, too). And there is less fighting over the snack box, which seems to have been taken over by “the bookends”—two little squirrels from Snacker Queens litter.

The poor little squirrel suffered the misfortune of returning to his hideout in the neighbor’s attic after the exterminators had come. He will be missed in the garden!

We only hope none of the others try to return there…

Spring has brought lots of good things to the garden. Besides the pretty flowers, of course…

The squirrels have been enjoying all the goodies Garden Weasel Junior has been hiding around the gardens. A few piles of seeds around “Squirrel Corner” and more goodies near the shade garden… and even more up on the kitchen deck… (we won’t tell the little guys about the new “storage bin” where all the bags of wildlife food are kept)!

Snacker Queen and her kids are all getting fat and happy… in fact we can barely tell them apart anymore!

And for the time being all the squirrels are behaving themselves and staying out of the birds’ feeders.

The same can’t be said for the birds, as they are often over in Squirrel Corner picking off the sunflower seeds when the squirrels aren’t around. The cardinal has been there quite a lot lately and we are greatful for his songs that accompany Garden Weasels at work.

It’s great to see all our little garden friends frolicking around the new growth. They seem to be so happy that spring is here and the sun is back. Soon the garden will be full of flowers and the trees will start to have yummy berries and other goodies provided by Mother Nature to supplement the stuff they are getting from the Garden Weasels! Can’t wait!!!!!

The garden animals are all around in search of food… and the birds songs make the day’s work go a little faster!

This morning we saw the first crocus poking up from the garden soil. It was very very tiny, but bright yellow and a happy and welcome harbinger of spring! The garden is full of little green shoots rising up toward the sun! Soon we hope to see everything starting to bloom, as the grey days of winter are behind us and the bright hope of spring is ahead! The Garden Weasel is smiling a big, big smile… time to go buy more plants!!!!

The little tomato seedlings are two inches high already! And eggplants and peppers have sprouted too… And in the herb planter we have the beginnings of basil, chives and parsely!

Looks like we are going to have quite a garden this year… Smile Big Weasel!!!!!

The young squirrels are everywhere! And they are eating everything in sight! Luckily the birds get up earlier and go to bed later, or they would never get a bite to eat with the hordes of young squirrels out there…

Oh, and spring is coming… it’s official… the Garden Weasel spotted the first two robins in her garden!

Greetings to all our Weasel friends from the Gentleweasel!