The GG was all excited this afternoon because of a “gopher” sighting in the Landfill back yard. My brain was busy churning away on a plan to eat an elephant and didn’t process the aminal type at first. Then he showed me a picture he took. It’s fuzzy. He took it from pretty far away. But that looked like a groundhog/woodchuck/whistle pig to me.

I said, “I don’t think that’s a gopher.” He then tried “woodchuck”. Okay, now we’re on the right track. It is a GROUNDHOG! I don’t know if gophers are common in Michigan. According to wikipee, they are not because they don’t like cold weather. Groundhogs? We have those aplenty. What ensued was a bunch of fun facts about gophers and groundhogs. There’ll be a quiz…

Apparently this groundhog frequents a “den” under the she-shed. Yesterday the GG blocked the entrance to the den. Today the entrance was back open. Is this war? I dunno. We’re not sure how much damage groundhogs do. I’m pretty sure porcupines can do a lot of damage but I don’t *think* we have them around here.

Before Instagram got totally jammed up with spam (hey Zuck), I stumbled upon “Chunk the Groundhog”. Jeff the Gardener in Delaware set up a cam to figger out who was eating his produce. Turned out it was Chunk the Groundhog. So Jeff set up a separate garden for Chunk. I was enchanted by Chunk at the beginning. Other aminals also show up, Posse the Possum with his glowing eyes and Stinkerbelle (guess which aminal🐽) and more. Google if you’re interested in this story. I heard a segment on NPR not too long ago. I still follow Chunkland but I don’t often look closely at the posts any more. There is just too much “suggested” content on Instagram these days. I hate wading through it to find content from people I know IRL or have *intentionally* followed. Take a note, Zuck. Like Zuck is reading this blahg of blather. In yer dreams, KW.

Although a war between the GG and a groundhog might be interesting, he (hilariously) doesn’t usually win wars against rodents😵‍💫

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