rue-madame's Diaryland Diary

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Nature calling

When we first moved here, we noticed these goofy creatures on the sides of the roads. We couldn�t figure out what they were; they were brown and furry, sort of fat and flat to the ground, and looked like possum-rat-marmot-beaver-hybrids so that�s what we called them.

�There�s a possum-rat-marmot-beaver over there! Look! LOOK!�

Then Terence asked some native at work, and the guy said, �oh, those are groundhogs.�

Groundhog? Like Punxsutawne Phil Groundhog groundhog?? No way!

Way!

Friday afternoon we saw one of these alleged �groundhogs� (also known as woodchucks! As in �how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood�!) skulking in the grass near the freeway turnoff. So we slowed to a crawl (safely, mind you) in order to get a good look at it (him? her?), and he/she was so chubby and furry and funnily cuuuute!

Connecticut should really think about breeding them as pets. That would really put the state on the map.

I mean what�s so great about Joe Lieberman? He�s just a big conservative whiny pain in the ass. The state needs something warm and fuzzy in the headlines.

1:27 p.m. - 2004-08-21

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