I am telling you --- those squirrels are wild! I thought it was just something in the air this year, then the S.O. reminded me that back in 1993 or so my mother had an ongoing fight with a squirrel who'd dig up her potted plants on the front porch to bury their nuts (ala Bill Murray in Caddyshack, with my mom in the Bill Murray role and the tree squirrel in the starring role of the gopher). The fights were kind of epic.