The Squamidian Report – June 25 / 22
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Issue #1048
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Hey There,

As you know, the crow we call ‘Beaky’ with the deformed beak has been coming each morning for a handout. We give her a bit of chopped up meat. We limit the handouts to just first thing in the morning, around 6:30 or so as we don’t want her to become dependent on us. She has been coming on and off now for several years, usually when times are tough. She tends to stand on the back of a deck chair and look in the window to get my attention and while cautious, has little fear of me. One morning this week I had just come back in from giving her her treat and had sat back down on the living room couch when she came flying onto the front balcony rail and started shouting at me, demonstrating some stress and alarm. I looked out the back window to where her treat was and saw a pair of raccoons gobbling up the meat. I went out to chase them away but they would not retreat so I grabbed a broom handle and whacked it on the rail to scare them. No effect. So, I went back in and got my sling shot, loaded a small wooden ball and shot one in the side. No effect. The little light balls are for scaring away the flicker woodpeckers and don’t have enough inertia to do any harm.

So, I went out front to the edge of the driveway and picked up a handful of small pebbles. Went back in and through the house to the back deck, loaded up a pebble and nailed one right in the ribs. It jumped and dove over the side of the deck. I nailed the other in the backside as it turned. It only took a moment and they were back, trying to sneak up again. I nailed one right between the eyes and it retreated, nailed the other in the side again and it jumped as the pebble created a nice pleasing thud sound. Both retreated to the flower bed where they looked out at me. Don’t know how but my aim was good again and I nailed one of them right between the eyes again. Both retreated over the back fence and I having seen them since as of now, when I’m writing this. I do hope they stay away but just in case, I’ve got a pile of nice little pebbles waiting to do their job.

On another topic, life is so frustrating these days. Case in point, it has taken months to get to the point where an eye specialist will actually see me (pardon the pun) in order to asses my cataracts in order to move to the next step of having them removed. Well, my appointment was for last Monday morning, down in Vancouver, and I was not looking forward to getting there as I hate driving into areas of that city that we are not familiar with. Sue would be doing the driving as I would not be able to on the way home due to eyeball dilation. At about 7:30 that morning the phone rang and it was the surgeon, calling to cancel my appointment due to the fact that 3 of his staff had come down with Covid. Here we go again. Our health officials and politicians have long since given up on the pandemic and every moron is running around like it had never existed BUT its more prevalent now than ever. So, people are spreading it all over the place. Now the surgeon has to reschedule a whole bunch of patients. And so on and so on.

doug

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