{"id":10562,"date":"2011-12-23T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2011-12-24T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T22:45:20","slug":"hangin-with-a-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/23\/hangin-with-a-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hangin’ With A Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sitting on the grass in our backyard on this beautiful, sunny San Diego late December day picking weeds from around some of our milkweed plants when I was unexpectedly joined by a brave little squirrel who was hungry for some of the weeds we have growing in the grass. He does us a huge favor eating those. He was munching away not five feet from me. Occasionally we would steal longing glances at each other. I unfortunately didn’t have my camera with me to capture the moment we shared together so hopefully this graphic will suffice.<\/p>\n

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I was sitting on the grass in our backyard on this beautiful, sunny San Diego late December day picking weeds from around some of our milkweed plants when I was unexpectedly joined by a brave little squirrel who was hungry for some of the weeds we have growing in the grass. He does us a … <\/p>\n

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