This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Bad Charcoal
Jul
15
2026
Squirrels cause a variety of problems, some worse than others. The following is not one of the worse ones; in fact it was rather amusing. And not just amusing once things had settled, but it was amusing while it was happening.
We have a shed in our yard where we store things like the wheelbarrow and snow shovels and garden hoses (in the offseason). One of the things stored in the shed is stuff for grilling – charcoal and lighter fluid.
Last fall, when I was putting the stuff away, I must not have rolled the bag of charcoal up. Or maybe it unrolled itself during the winter. Either way, when I went to get the charcoal for the first grilling of the season, the bag was open.
Another thing to note is that the squirrels like our shed. It’s a nice sheltered place.
Anyway, I took the bag over to the grill and dumped some charcoal into the grill, and I saw this:
The squirrels had decided that the bag was a good spot to store walnuts. I picked the walnuts out of the grill, tossed them off to the side of the lawn, lit the grill, and went on.
While we were waiting for the coals to settle down, we noticed a squirrel going to the bag of charcoal. Over the next several minutes, he went to the bag, grabbed a walnut out of it, took it somewhere, and repeated until the bag had no more walnuts. Saved me some work later. But I suppose he caused me some work earlier, so squirrels are still overall a nuisance.
Then Joseph gave orders to full their bags with grain, but also to return eery man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And that is what was done for them.
Genesis 42:25
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 5:00 pm and has been carefully placed in the Mishaps category.
