Our squirrels have become obese and I think it’s safe to say that the daily all-you-can-eat cicadas are at least partly to blame.

Yesterday we were watching a couple of huge squirrels heave their ponderous bulks about the yard and one stopped to groom himself, giving us a good view of his forelegs. They weren’t legs, they were arms. Beefy arms. Beefy squirrel arms. You can use a lot of words to describe squirrels, but beefy should never need to be one of them.