My Groundhog Is Back

Bait and switch! Deceit! Trickery! Chicanery! Deception! Bait ...And ...Switch!!! Yup, I don't have the post I promised you yesterday. I've mentioned in the past that you should never trust a man that pretends to be a rat, but did you? Uh, I don't know. But when you go and trust a giant rat, you're bound to get bitten.

Actually, I have a few reasonably good reasons why I'm not delivering another red squirrel to you today. The first one is that my groundhog is back! The second is that I'm not sure YouTube would have the video ready in time. So I'm going to wait until Monday for those things. I'll be doing that post in a way I've never done things before. But for now I have a groundhog to talk about...

You see, there is a groundhog that lives near my house, but way out through the grass and near the forest. I wrote a few stories about it last year, but I just couldn't get any decent pictures of him yet. My camera wasn't quite god enough to zoom in that far. Now that I have better equipment, I think my chances of getting those pictures have improved. There's still one problem though.

The groundhog has to cooperate with me. I had him in my sights yesterday, and I even got the pictures you see here, but he wouldn't stop long enough for me to get the exact pictures I wanted. It's like when a mean little kid turns his head away or makes a face at the camera.

This little critter would move just enough so I couldn't get focused on him at the right time.Or he would turn away right when I was trying to get the picture. Just like the turtles from a few days ago, he seemed to be just fine with having geese around, but not with my presence whatsoever. Why do they like geese more than meeee!!! Oh... yeah... I guess it's the being a human thing. I guess there's no help for that.

This big fat groundhog kept turning and twisting so much that I couldn't quite get it right. He knew I was there and he was becoming more agitated by the second. It didn't take long before he began running for the forest. He quickly disappeared into the trees and was gone. There will be other days and other opportunities.

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