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The crimes were heinous.  Almost daily, the body counts multiplied.  Under cover of darkness, in broad daylight, when no witnesses were present, flagrant and blatant criminals continued to decapitate their victims, one by one.  The victims were taken by surprise.  None had a chance to cry out before the deed was done.  It was an unsolved mystery, enough to break the heart of the innocent gardener.  The murder scene was repeated over and over again.

Miss Zinnia, shown in the last picture taken before her untimely death-

 

 

Then, the crime scene photo, taken by Detective Etherknitter.  The heads were laid out on the deck, shredded, petals flung haphazardly, in the hunt for seeds to stockpile for the coming winter.  Miss Zinnia never looked old enough to have developed her seeds, and we wondered if the deaths were in vain.

 

 

 

One of the suspects was caught consorting with Miss Zinnia, but was clearly not strong enough to have overwhelmed her to chop off her head.  The only crime the Detective could pin on him was a spate of hair-pulling and arguing, nothing more.  

 

 

 

The perp was eventually spotted when he attempted to repeat his assault on a taller victim.  The din made by repeated falls to the deck brought the Detective to the window.  The perpetrator leaped off the deck and was lost in the multiple tunnels that was his lair.   Justice will not be meted out by man nor woman.  He eluded capture.  

We no longer think chipmunks are cute.

Our extremely hard frost is coming Thursday or Friday night.  This weekend will see the last of the plants composted or sequestered.  Let the knitting begin.

 

Comments

[Lynn]

Grow more hot peppers?

[Carole]

Chipmunks are most certainly not cute! And neither are squirrels - not that we ever thought THEY were.

[Claudia]

Ah, nature.

[Margene Smith]

At least your mystery was solved. I had no idea chipmunks were so cruel!

[TimH]

Our son recently asked for recommendations for air rifles and squirrel recipes...

[Lorette]

Well, they have to eat, too. Just don’t get the bright idea to put seeds out for them or you’ll have the whole damn chipmunk clan.

[Elaine in NYC]

I respectfully disagree that chipmunks are not cute. Nevertheless, being destroyers is not cool. The coming freeze will, unfortunately, do what the rodents failed to accomplish. Say Kaddish for the flowers and knit on!

[Martha]

Are there 30 languages you can blog in?

[kmk]

Chipmunks are annoying. We used to have an entire colony in the hill behind the rock retaining wall. They would chirp CONSTANTLY if one of the cats were outside.