1. hello! here's a thread about the tiny squirrels that lived in my window in the winter of 2009. meet our protagonist.

2. a tree grew right outside my college dorm room. I'd see this critter scrambling up and down and always gave her a wave. I never named her, because she didn't belong to me. we were just neighbors.

3. squirrel started getting bold and creeping onto the sill. I had just gotten a used DSLR, and suddenly I had an eager subject. on a couple of warm days when I left the window open, she was brave enough to actually come into my room.

4. we had these weird windows that had an inside and an outside pane, with a few inches of space in between. in the cold months people would use that gap space as a cheapass beer fridge. I had happened to have the inside pane closed and the outside pane open a crack. piece by piece, she built a nest.

5. there was all kinds of junk in there: twigs, newspaper, plastic bags, a parking ticket. here she is nibbling on part of someone's homework assignment.

6. one morning, in mid-march, I woke up to a weird high-pitched peeping noise. there was something new in the nest.

7. they were way deep in there. I could only see them through a narrow gap in the nest-trash. three days old, and they were already starting to grow whiskers.

9. they didn't do much, mostly just kind of wriggle onto each other. at night mom would come in and sleep on them.

@prehensile This is such a mood. Also they are so cute.

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