The people who live across the street from me have a walnut tree in their front yard, which keeps the squirrels busy from about mid-summer to the first snowfall.  But squirrels are dumb.  They bury the walnuts in MY backyard and then they cannot find them again!  So they dig up my whole backyard looking for them.  It makes little bumps all over the grassy area of the backyard and it's hard to walk upright back there.  It hasn't stopped the deer from invading my yard for the past 3 weeks, however.  It's about half scary to go outside to the mailbox.  There has, so far been 1 large buck and 3 of 4 small to medium sized doe's.  They're beautiful but they do not like to be surprised and neither do I.

I'll be kinda glad when the snow flies because that way I'll be able to see their tracks and have at least half an idea where they might be hiding.  They have pooped all over my driveway and sidewalk to the front door.  What a mess.