Several days ago, one of the children discovered that there
is a mole living near the air conditioning unit. We have had a slow leak in our unit, and
wonder if we have found the culprit. We
adults are all about protecting our suburban lifestyle, but the girls are
smitten.
Last night at dinner, Oldest Daughter said, “I saw the mole
today. It was so cute and fuzzy!”
Me: Hmphh.
Husband: I think that
mole has been tapping into our air conditioning. It’s a good summer to get free air
conditioning.
Me: And probably the
chipmunks are stealing AC from the mole.
Oldest Daughter: It has a name,
you know.
Me: You mean the
mole? Did you name it Genevieve?
(When she was about 8
years old, O.D. found a toad in the yard, named it Genevieve and constructed a
habitat for it, although the habitat was more suitable as a mosquito larva
party school.)
OD: No. (smiling
sweetly) It’s name is ‘Peaches.’
Youngest Daughter:
Oh, how cute! Little cuddly
Peaches!
Me: The mole in
Thumbelina was evil and nasty, you know.
YD: No, he
wasn’t. He was just lonely and
misunderstood.
Son: (rolls eyes)
The chipmunks have set up a gated community in our erstwhile strawberry garden. In a kind gesture, I cleaned it out for them in May, but I have yet to receive a thank you note. The chipmunks keep very busy running the vast empire of tunnels they have under our yard. And now we find out that their summer project has been to upgrade to air-conditioned units.
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| Chipmunk gated community, before urban renewal |
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| After I cleaned it out, leaving the strawberry plants |
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| Chipmunk dessert! |
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| Chipmunk entrance to to the gated community |
So far I haven’t seen this mole, and for that and much else, I am thankful.
4 comments:
Something in our yard has been taking big bites out of the figs and tomatoes. But as far as I know, we have neither chipmunks nor moles. I have no idea what it is.
Deer? Neighbors?
Neighbors --he he! Something has been taking bites out of our tomatoes too, but I did snatch two Purple Cherokee before they had been bitten. I sure hope it's not the neighbors!
I think we have chipmunk suburban sprawl. They keep digging tunnels and coming up between the flagstones on our back patio --I think Rob is about ready to fire bomb them. And, in a positive correlation, we haven't managed to snitch a single strawberry from our bed, even though they've been blooming all summer!
"mosquito larva party school"--that's why I love your posts--too dang witty, girlfriend!
I find a dead mole at least twice a week in our pool skimmer basket. They're nasty looking--those fingers on their noses. Ick.
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