A vole is a small rodent resembling a mouse with a stouter body, a shorter hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, and smaller ears and eyes. Cassidy brought a pretty mauled one in this afternoon and dropped it on the carpet. Then she went over to her cat food and had lunch. If we could only get the cats to eat what they catch, we could probably cut down on the commercial stuff. If the stock market drops much further, we may have to do that anyway. I told a friend of ours who is a retired butcher that we were fattening up the cats, just in case. It really is, as you no doubt know, "the OTHER white meat."Voles -- I don't know that I had ever seen one before, or if so, I thought it was a fat mouse -- apparently love the area around the septic system where the ground was all disturbed when the work was being done over there. So there may be more voles in our future ...
A Lutheran minister friend dropped in this morning for a chat. She and her husband co-pastor a church in Baraboo. At least Cassidy didn't bring in her catch during that visit.
In other critter news, the pileated has been around the last couple of days, at the suet boxes and just hammering away on the cherry tree out back.
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