A fairly idle morning

Yesterday morning I had bought a couple of plants that I wanted to put in the garden especially as I knew the weather forecast was for heavy rain today but just as I was going to go out of the back door I noticed Nutty Norah, the mother squirrel was out there and she had her youngster, Jack in the Box, with her. But then I saw that there was another young one as well and I couldn't tell the two of them apart when they were chasing each other around.
It seems that all youngsters are much the same and Nutty Norah really had her hands full with these two mischievous little ones. They were having great fun playing and exploring while Nutty Norah was hanging upside down on the birds' wire peanut feeder. I had put the bird food on the table earlier and had included a handful of sunflower hearts which I know they also like. I thought the youngsters would like some peanuts because they were having problems finding out how to get them out of the peanut box so I went outside the back door and put a few on the path. As soon as I came in they came and helped themselves but to my surprise, Mum came down and started taking the others and then burying them around the garden!
I don't know how squirrels communicate but Nutty Norah got up on the fence and the two youngsters scurried up onto the bird table and started eating while Mum left the garden. After a good feed they were off chasing each other around again and Mum returned and sat on the fence watching them. When they had finished their game they too got up on the fence and all three had a good, long doze in the sun while I realised that I had in fact been enraptured by their antics for a full two and a half hours!