Squirrely Buddies

Athens is famous for its gray squirrels. There's a rumor that back in the olden days of OU, some professors or Board of Trustee members went to Harvard and caught some of their "special" squirrels to bring back here. Since then, they have bred and taken over campus. I found more information about this squirrel kidnapping at Harvard here (scroll down for some wild, totally not true accounts ) and here (see number 9).

I find myself talking, out loud, to the squirrels. I'm not sure why.. For those of you judgers, always judging, it's not as though I have full-blown conversations with them. It's more like "Hello little squirrel" or "Hi little buddy."

They are cute, that's for sure. And there seems to be an unbelievable amount of them in town, especially on College Green.

Perhaps I started getting chattier with them after I read this article in the Athens News.

Whatever the case, they're the only animals I see on a regular basis so, here's to you squirrely buddies.