This morning, as I sipped my coffee in the backyard I witnessed a terrible eviction from a home. The momma squirrel in my nesting box quite unceremoniously evicted her children! It was fascinating to watch. At first she attempted to nicely coax them out of the house. When this failed, after 1/2 hour or so, she just reached in, grabbed one in her mouth and pulled it out. She then came down the tree and carried him off somewhere, she repeated the same with the second one. It brought back a flood of memories. It reminded me of my father and why I joined the Navy!