Tonight, I am simply feeling a little squirrely.  Or maybe I am just a little nuts.   Today, I met a very nice squirrel named Joan.  Joan was a boy squirrel.  His parents had been hoping for a girl.  They were huge fans of Joan Jett of Arc.  Or something like that. At any rate….   I don’t have much to say.  Other than I like squirrels.  And nuts.

I like some nuts more than others though.  A good salted peanut might be one of my favorites.  Pistachios and almonds are rocking too.  I know the cashew gets an awful lot of press… but I think I’d rather have a peanut.  Pistachios…. a big yes.

As far as I can remember…. I don’t think I’ve ever tried an acorn.   And walnuts are okay… but way down there.

Nuts and humans go hand in hand.  Well…  THAT goes without saying doesn’t it?  But we humans have been eating nuts since we first got up on two legs.  Yep.  Scientists did a caboodle of studies on early fossils of homo sapiens.   They determined we were nut and fruit eaters…. WAY back in the day.

Yeah, I imagined we probably ticked off a few saber-toothed squirrels in the early times of very hairy men in caves.

Since then, our relationship with squirrels has evolved.  There are plenty of nuts and berries to go ALL the way around.  Especially since these days….most of the very hairy men in caves stick to eating Cheetos, Hot Pockets, and Budweiser.

THAT will be one for future scientists to figure out.  Totally nuts.

“I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein