Tochi's Hut

I have this wooden shed in my backyard where I store miscellaneous garden tools, cardboard boxes and other junk.  Over the weekend, I ventured into the shed and to my surprise, the place was in a big mess.  Things were knocked over and debris laid everywhere.  Obviously, some little rascal had spent a winter camping inside my shed, taking advantage of everything the shed had to offer without even asking. 

As I began the labourious task of removing the junk and debris, this little squirrel ran into the shed!  WTF.  He was freaking me out and I was freaking him out.  It ran all around the building, then eventually hid behind a bucket in the corner.  I continued cleaning the place up.  Every time I left the shed and peered back in, the squirrel came out to look around.  When I entered, he resumed the cover position behind the bucket.   Getting fed up after a while, I picked a few rocks and tossed them behind the bucket.  I'd hope to scare the squirrel out and get him out of my shed!  

The rocks locked on and homed in on the target.  BOOM.  nothing.  no explosion.  no reaction.  Where did the rascal go?!?  I pulled the bucket out and found the second entrance to the shed.  The stupid thing ate a hole through my shed in the corner.  That was where he was popping in and out.  Now that I found the entrance to his secret lair, I took an interlock stone and blocked the entrance... BWHAHAHAHA.   Later in the day, I went to Home Depot and got a bit of liquid concrete and patched the hole up.  I didn't even know if concrete will work with wood, but the wood obviously wasn't enough to stop the squirrel.  Let him taste a bit of concrete!

During the cleanup, I'd found a LOT of peanut shells littered all over the place.  WHO is FEEDING peanuts to squirrels?!?!?  Anyway, after many hours of work, I threw a lot of things out and my shed has never been cleaner.  Curiously enough, there was this little squirrel that was looking over me from a tree.  I can't be sure if he was the ONE, but I won't be surprised.  He even stopped and posed for TochiCam.  I didn't really feel bad that I took away the squirrel's home.  It's still spring, so he has the entire summer to relocate.

Now we get to Tuesday.  There was this dead squirrel beside the shed.  He wasn't there yesterday.  About the same size and look as above.  He had his belly up.  I didn't flip him over to confirm his identity nor did I bother to determine the cause of death.  I felt kind of bad.  Packed him up and gave it a proper burial in the green organic waste bin.  Poor guy.  Ruined my day.