Upon arriving in Brevard, the White Squirrel Capitol, we made a discovery. These folks are “all about” the white squirrel but no one could seemingly point us in the right direction. I was beginning to think it was a conspiracy or a PR campaign drawing tourists off the main highway. I mean if these guys are so great for the economy, you would think, someone, somewhere would know their hiding place! Everyone we asked told us a different story. At the gas station, oh honey they are usually playing right here behind the station. A trucker advised us to look down the yellow center line (squirrels as road kill – what kind of advice is that? How Mean!) Another told us to sit uptown on a bench and just wait for them! How long? Oh, just wait for them!!!
So uptown we went, strolling along Main Street, looking up every tree, cameras at a ready. We were beginning to lose faith and thought the only ones we were going to see were the stuffed ones outside the O. P. Taylor’s Toy Store. (So I brought one home with me…just in case!) This is one cool Toy Store – a definite must see! The clerks also gave us some advice..check out the Silvermont Park – it’s only a little ways and off we go again.
Tired, Hot, Thirsty, we offered up a quick prayer just as we were going to turn around and give up our venture! Lord, this is your crazy girls again and we know you can give us our hearts desire and this one isn’t much – we just want to see a little white squirrel!! Thank you Jesus for hearing our prayers! I know it sounds crazy but you walk the streets for two + hours looking for a squirrel! I was a few steps ahead taking pictures of beautiful stained glass windows in a church when suddenly Jeanette said Christy stop!
There he was…scampering across the parking lot..checking us out! Suddenly we were squealing then trying to calm down and quietly edge closer! Yet he still came – so brave and so curious. After all our tracking, wouldn’t you know, none of us had a snack in our purses. He looked at us so expectantly that it was hard to leave. But we went back to the car, checked out the park – only finding a dolphin and a brown squirrel. Now we are running behind schedule but we couldn’t resist stopping back by the tree.
At first, we thought he had gone on but then I spotted him…all stretched out on the tree limb…just waiting for our return. Down he came quick as lightning….to check out the snacks! Since he turned his nose up at the pretzels and loved the Elfin crackers, we dubbed him “Elfin, the White Squirrel of Brevard”, may he live long and prosper.
You may think we are silly but I am so thankful for a Heavenly Father who looks down on his precious children to bless them with such as simple thing as to cross their paths with a little hungry white squirrel.
On a different note, we learned another lesson: the $5.00 huge tube of pucker powder from the toy store makes 12 year old little girls go completely wacky! Almost all the way to Charlotte, she was telling jokes, cracking herself about nothing, doing the “ape itch” for passerbyers! We tried not to laugh because that just made her worse! So buyers beware of the power of the pucker powder!
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