A brief pause...

... from the horror, the horror. I just watched a squirrel munching on a pumpkin. The gourd was on the sidewalk, a small one, like three others on the nearby stoop. I wonder if the animal pushed it down the steps before going to town on it. The skin was bitten off in squirrel-mouth-sized bits to expose the flesh within. It looked good. I'm ready for some pumpkin pie.