[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Story
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 14:57:29 -0500
I think your Gardening Guy bears interrogation.
Mike Geary
Memphis
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:55 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I aver, from personal experience, that shrews are like teens. Earlier this
> week I went to put something in the old fridge in the garage and lo, there
> one was. Not a mouse, not a rat... it was an animal that sat back on its
> hind legs, with a little stumpy tail. It interrupted its washing to give me
> a stare. "I'm having a bath here...do you mind?"
>
> I did mind, my general rule being that all animals save those with domestic
> residence permits need to stay out where they belong, out where the supply
> of worms and insects is vast and plentiful.
>
> I called the girls and we banged about a bit, stomped and encouraged, until
> the beast stepped slowly away. Even when out on the driveway and fully in
> view of potential predators, it walked like a teen. "You can't make me," it
> seemed to say.
>
> My hope is that Mr. or Ms. Shrew will now express gratitude by eating
> slugs. I looked shrews up. Apparently there aren't many places out here in
> suburbia where there is a sufficiency of twigs and similar, where the
> habitat is exactly right for shrews. Like all of you, I think we may now
> feel proud of doing our bit to encourage diversity.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland,
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