The two squirrels who've been visiting us, on a daily basis, appear to becoming more comfortable regarding our presence in what I suspect they think of as their home. It's true they are wont to disappear down the drain when we stare out at them, but they usually reappear quite quickly to continue with their squirrelly business.
And then last night, approaching midnight, Noi called me into the bedroom to look out the window at another temporary resident of the area, five in fact. And bigger than our squirrels. We took them to be a family, squeaking away conversationally, climbing the tree adjacent to our fence, with one, the leader by the looks of him, balancing on the telephone wire above it. Rather foolishly I told Noi I thought they were lemurs, only discovering in the cold light of today that lemurs are native to Madagascar and don't get around much. Our contractor Ah Seng more accurately identified them as musang, also known as toddy cats.
But before Ah Seng had even arrived today we'd also seen a monkey doing a balancing act on the same telephone wire, to complete the menagerie, at least for the moment.
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