Word: squirreled
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...option is to move into a retirement community that offers health-care support services. "Your dream may be to retire to the country, but you don't want to live in the middle of nowhere and have your only friend and neighbor be a squirrel," says Barbara Flom of the Chicago law firm Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz Ltd., most of whose clients are childless...
...attic above me, an animal has died. A carrion smell seeps through the ceiling. A squirrel, maybe. A raccoon? For a week, I heard something scuttling up there - as if to answer the clicking of my computer keyboard. I was amused to think the animals were weighing in with a contrary point of view. I assumed that a creature that had found its way into the attic would find its way out. Then the scuttling stopped, and in a day or two, the dead smell began. I must go up through the trap door in the ceiling in the hall...
...cats bring offerings to us, neatly severed red squirrel tails that they lay ceremonially outside the kitchen door where we feed them. The cats leave the tails for us like tips for the waiter. My wife assembled a collection of a half dozen red squirrel tails, laid out in a row on a shelf in her office. But in the middle of the night, the mice came into the office and carried every one of the tails away...
MOVE OVER, MARIO Meet Conker. He's a squirrel, he swears a lot, he has a drinking problem, and he's the star of Conker's Bad Fur Day ($70), a new video game for the Nintendo 64. Conker is Nintendo's attempt to shed its wholesome image (think Super Mario Bros.) and pull in some grownup dollars. In one scene Conker defeats his foes by drinking beer and then--cover your eyes, kids--urinating on them...
...plastic squirrel toasting a plastic marshmallow over a tiny tea light was so realistic that the marshmallow ignited. Recalled...