Squirrels

Well, after my continuously hitting the ceiling with a baseball bat for the past few months, I won!  Kind of.  Last week I had hit the ceiling so hard that I scared the squirrel right out and near our window sill.  So, I opened the window and scratched the screen making hissing noises (like any normal person would do) and to my surprise the squirrel retaliated and jumped at me all while squawking (or whatever it is squirrels do).  After realizing it wanted a fight I tried to remove the screen and send it 3 stories to the ground with my bat, but unfortunately (or fortunately?) the plastic screen tabs broke and I was never able to get some batting practice in.  I, however, DID continue to rifle our ceiling with clonks of the bat end every time I heard squirrel scratching.  Then, last Thursday, I noticed the squirrel crawling out, but with something rather large in her mouth... it dawned on me that it was a baby squirrel.  Since I knew she was relocating her family, I was all for it and decided to walk outside and see where she was moving to (also marking sure she wasn't relocating to our bedroom or living area).  I didn't see a thing, and then, something moved beside a tree near the street.  The baby squirrel in her mouth was about 1/3 her size, so she continued with the large item in her teeth across the street.  I followed and watched her go under a backyard fence of one of our neighbors.  She had cleverly pre-dug a hole there.  I looked over the fence and she climbed a tree and the scampered up it, out on a branch which overhung the house, and then jumped (about 4 feet in the air, still with the baby in her mouth) on to the roof top and clung to every shingle she could.  She continued up, then to the front, and around one of the eaves to another section of roof and then entered some hole I couldn't see and momentarily popped back out (without anything in her mouth) eying me to see if I was going to cause her more grief.  It was neat to watch, so I let her be in peace.   Luckily, no more squirrel scratching from our ceiling, and I might add, they moved to a much nicer house, so I'm guessing the squirrels must be doing quite well financially.