A couple of years ago, the Yarn Harlot blogged about the fleece stealing squirrel. My then eight year old son nearly peed his pants laughing at it. And then he drew the schematics for a better squirrel trap.

You really should click through and see the larger version of this. So you can see that the squirrel is in ninja “hiya” position on the right. And so you can read the detailed workings of an eight year old mind in his own hand-writing. But this is what he says:

Operator sitting in chair activates machine by unhooking connection #B1. Squirrel thinks: “What’s the point if this happens?”. After at least 5 whimpering, banging, screaming noises, release by pulling under connection #A2.

In other news today, Friday July 2nd is the last day for the half-year, half-price sale. So stock up while you can and look for more PicnicKnits patterns in the future.