Vancouver City Motto
Vancouver: where all of the squirrels are black, even if none of the people are.
My English Diet
I have eaten more packaged sandwiches since September than I had in the preceding 45 years.
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We've got a ton of black squirrels in Kent. I used to live in Brimfield, which is a rural township right next to Kent and that shares Kent's postal codes. I would see these critters all the time, and boy are they ugly, they look more ratlike and scraggly than the grey squirrel. Here's a little background of how they got to Kent.
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I lived in Vancouver for a while. The squirrels are there for the nuts, who are in abundant supply.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend, it's even abundanter!
DeleteGene, just be glad the Vancouver Canucks stink and were bounced out of the playoffs in the first round, because if they had made it to the second round and been swept by the Kings this past week then you'd currently been in the equivalent of a citywide meltdown. Case in point: pictures of post 2011 Stanley Cup Finals in Vancouver.
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