Holiday Show News: The solstice is here, happy solar noon! Alex, Roz and JP (that’s me) have had another meeting, and at this one, Roz made dinner! I don’t have any photos of said dinner… but it was delicious, it involved roasted cauliflower and pasta with a delicious tomato-based sauce on it. We talked about this website, board members, an exciting pizza meeting with our staff, and developments to come for the 2013 season of the holiday show.
CraftNight News: CraftNight has acquired a truly weird 4th of July Craft that involves a plant holder that resembles Old Glory. So if you’re not doing anything Wednesday the 26th of June, come to CraftNight and make one of those.
Gothtober News: Gothtober is going to be “Airport” themed, and will be sending out it’s official “Call for Artists” in July.
NOW FOR THE SQUIRREL WARNING: In Yosemite, recently, a squirrel was trapped in my van overnight. It chewed through two seatbelts, pooed a lot all over the place, built a weird nest in the center console, chewed through my cell phone charger, and ripped up the fabric on the interior of the van above the rear view mirror. I felt really bad that it was trapped in there, because all of the signs of panic were on display, it even tried chewing its way out near the sliding door.
So.
When you go camping in bear-raccoon-deer land, anywhere with brazen national-park savvy animals, the rangers are going to stress the importance of using the bear boxes. The won’t say anything about squirrels. That’s why I’m here. BEWARE OF THE SQUIRRELS!!! Don’t leave your car unsupervised for even a moment!
It took Camp Teeny Mini Weenie over 2 hours to locate the freaked-out squirrel beneath the airbag dashboard space on the passenger side. And even then, we weren’t sure if it was completely gone until Alex drove the van around in circles while Shannon Dedman sat in the backseat with a really big stick to chase it with in case it emerged.
It did not emerge, and there has been no further damage done to the van, and there’s no dead squirrel odor, so I think we’re “out of the woods” literally and figuratively.
