Outdoor Life

them and they loved tomatoes too (besides the groundhogs). And, talk about shooting them...do you know how hard it is to hit a tiny chipmunk from a ways off? It's not easy, and I never ended up hitting one. They would just scamper away quickly. This particular epidemic of chipmunks lasted only a year or so too. It's amazing, as to what critters you may see by the thousands from year to year in the Ozark countryside.

One year we had cicadas by literally the millions, so many, that they were weighting the branches down. We finally got back into the car and drove away (we were checking on my grandma's place to make sure it was aok), just to get away from the overwhelming noise of the cicadas.