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09/24/2004 Archived Entry: "Welcome to the neighborhood"

Posted by steve @ 07:20 PM EST [Link]

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD: I was in the backyard last week when I saw something remarkable...well, at least to me. It was a small hole in the ground. I was amazed to see a squirrel pop out and regard me with what I took to be a wary eye. Turns out I came across a little home he/she had made for themselves in preparation for the coming winter. Since then I've left a few peanuts every day to help the little chap out in his/her labours.

Last year a family of squirrels had tried to build a home in the timbers that forms the base of a small shed in the backyard. I watched one day as a parent came out and then looked inside to see three baby squirrels. They left soon after. Perhaps they found a larger space with the same rent.

While I'm posting pictures, here's a picture of my sister with crooner Matt Dusk who visited Sudbury late last month. They are sharing a laugh because he's pinching my sister's butt in front of my amused brother-in-law. I don't know if my American readers know who Dusk is (he was on the Fox series The Casino recently) but he's a Sinatra-esque singer who is big in Canada with a cover of U2's "One Shot of Happy", a song Bono wrote for Sinatra in the early 1990s.

I'm usually suspicious of singers who do standards these days because I prefer the Nelson Riddle orchestration that Sinatra used during his best days in the late 1950s to late 1960s but I have to say that Dusk's album is pretty good. Some people accuse him of being a Sinatra clone -- as if that were a bad thing -- but I have to say that the cat has his own sound. He could be the next Harry Connick Jr., and I mean the "Blue Light, Red Light" era Connick Jr. (which was the soundtrack to my life for about a year and a half), not the "I'm gonna act on Will and Grace!" era Connick Jr.

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Actually he did not pinch my butt, we were laughing cause my husband said to keep my hands off his!!!

Posted by Susan @ 09/25/2004 11:27 AM EST