Friday, September 28, 2007

Squirrel, it's what's for dinner...



So, this is what the kids found in the pool this afternoon. Dead squirrel. Must have jumped in sometime after I pulled the plug to empty the pool this morning and then couldn't get out. Poor little guy. Please ignore the leaves and sand in the picture...I really did keep the pool clean while it was actually warm enough for the kids to swim in it!


It is dinnertime, and of course, I have NO CLUE what to feed my angry mob. So, being the kind, gentle, animal loving sort that I am, I suggested that we could have the squirrel for dinner. I mean, it's already dead, so no killing would be involved, right? My 12 year old Bubber thought that was a FANTASTIC idea - he said, "COOL, squirrel is SO good!!" Um, right. Well, I'm not about to TOUCH, much less cook, a dead squirrel.


I am still waiting for Ande to "dispose" of the little rodent. The kids offered to fish it out of the pool with our skimmer, but I envisioned a bizarre game of "toss the squirrel" breaking out. (Hey, when I was a kid, we thought it was funny to toss fish heads at each other...)


So, now I'm trying to think of something to eat that does not, in any way, shape, or form, have the potential to resemble cooked squirrel. Pizza, anyone???

3 comments:

12-arrows said...

Thats so hilarous! We found a dead cat frozen in our pool when the boys were little! They had a ball trying to chip it out of the ice. Had most of the neighborhood watching too! Then to top it off a neighbor lady came to our door asking if we saw her cat. . . . .

Julie said...

Oh NO!! That's too much!

Anonymous said...

Spuirrel is awesome. a game of toss the spuirrel probobly would have brock out mom butit wouldnt have involved the girls tossing the little guy. It probobly wouldve involved me throwing the spuirrel at the girls and them screaming. Just kidding ha ha ha.

BRENDAN