While this picture kind of speaks for itself as far as its title goes, it does hold a little twist to the meaning.

Our backyard happens to have many different visitors. Some are considered spectacular that they are there at all. Most of the animal pictures in the gallery are visitors coming through at one time or another.

The chipmunks are no exception, other than they seem to stay. Now, of course, they are cute and funny to watch, until they make their homes in places you don’t want them. Our garage happens to be one of those places. There is no locking them out; they will chew through just about anything to get to where they want to be. My husband finally resorted to putting the birdseed into a metal garbage can. Darn if they didn’t figure out how to get the top off! He even put a bungee cord across the cover. They chewed through that. Being a hunter, my husband had at one time thought about shooting them. Fortunately, he couldn’t do it because as much of a nuisance they were, they were still so darned cute.

So, he purchased a small Have A Heart Trap out of desperation. His plan was to capture and remove them from the property. What made me really smile was how my husband honestly thought we only had one or two chipmunks. When he caught and released two, he couldn’t understand why there were still one or two left!

While at work in a previous job one day, I received an email from our I.T. guys who worked in the lower offices. Thinking that they needed information on one of my phone orders, I opened it up to the picture of my car. Their office window faces the side of the building where my car was parked. It was small enough of a company that we knew each other’s cars. The email explained that they had been watching this little guy for the better part of the day. Running around the yard and jumping into my grill and then jumping back out and doing it over and over again.

I replied to them that they had no idea how hysterical that was! Then I told them that my husband had been trapping the chipmunks in our yard to move them to another location. I explained to the I.T. guys I was forwarding this one to my husband to let him know that the ones he was re-homing were hitching rides back, and that’s why we couldn’t get rid of them.