During a visit from a friend last week, I discovered a hedgehog who had made himself at home in my garage. Hedgehogs are really kind of cute which may explain why you can buy chocolate hedgehogs at the boulangerie around here. I always thought they were porcupines, and I thought it very odd that a chocolate covered porcupine would be a kid's treat! In fact, little animated hedgehogs are on signs for garden stores around here and in many children's books and cartoons as well. I just never realized that this animal is something we don't have in North America. Well, one learns something new every day, I guess. It turns out that hedgehogs are great for pest control as they are insectivorous. My friend F. was jealous of my hedgehog and wanted to come and get him for her garden. I told her I would like to keep him around to eat my bugs. The picture above was taken as he was hiding from me in the garage. Poor thing was probably scared to death, but he had made quite a nice little nest out of some of our clutter in the garage. Sadly, I haven't seen him again since we closed the garage door for the night, but I am hoping that he is somewhere in my garden keeping all the bugs away from my house.
As I was trying to think of a title for my hedghog blog, I remembered a song that we listened to and discussed in my French class last summer. It is called, "Y'a Une Fille Qui Habite Chez Moi" and it is about a guy whose bachelor pad is transformed when a girl moves in. Here it is if you are interested in hearing it.
BENABAR : Y'a une fille qui habite chez moi - Taratata
TARATATA N°170 (Tour. 10/03/2005 - Dif. 09/04/2005)
TARATATA N°170 (Tour. 10/03/2005 - Dif. 09/04/2005)
Mots-clés : fille benabar chez moi chanson française habite 170 y a une fille qui habite chez moi une fille habite chez moi y a une fille chez moi
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2 comments:
Except now he's headed to the neighbours garage. ;)
Think you can train it to eat up those spiders on command? What a cutie!
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