If you currently have or have ever had a bird feeder on your home turf, then I think you’d probably agree with me that “bird” feeder is a misnomer. It might as well be called a “free for all feeder,” as it’s more like a mini animal trough. Hence, the lead-in to this month’s message, or as I almost titled it, “Being Schooled by a Squirrel.”

There’s an annual Star Wars festival held each year on May 4th or “May the Force”, at a local town, and I decided that this year I would go and take my granddaughter and whoever else in my family wanted to tag along. I wasn’t that much older than my granddaughter when I saw the very first Star Wars movie with my Dad. I vividly remember the phenomenon in the 1970s. When it premiered…