The Adventures of Chippy & Friends: The Mother Lode

Well, it is my 100th blog post. Yes, go ahead and say what your thinking, "I never thought Chippy would last this long with his blog. How much can that little fur ball really chat about." Sorry to disappoint you, I am still going strong like the Energizer Bunny!

Most folks celebrate a 100th with a party. Not very original. I wanted something spectacular, something no other chipmunk has ever accomplished.

"The Mother Load"

Mom likes to feed the birds. She buys sunflower seeds by the #50 bag. According to legend, the seed is kept in a secure metal tin covered at all times. Each new generation of chipmunks hears the stories of the Fort Knox of sunflower seeds. Every chipmunk has daydreamed about getting into it at one time or another. The exact location of Fort Knox has been lost for many years. Spot found it by accident when she helped herself to the corn on the cob meal a few weeks ago. It is on Mom’s porch of all places.

Now that I know about the secret passageway into the porch thanks to Spot, I am devising a plan to break-in. I have been carefully observing Mom’s daily routine of feeding the birds from a branch with good views of the interior of the porch. I have noticed that Mom feels secure with the screen door and leaves the cover off the sunflower seed bucket while feeding the birds. I have also noted that every few days she takes in the suet feeder for a good scrubbing. This leaves about a fifteen minute window of opportunity to get in and out undetected.

In preparation I been studying all of the greatest heist movies ever made. In the movies most robberies are done by a “gang” with each member having a special skill. The downside is usually one member of the gang gets caught or double crosses the other members. So, I have decided to go solo on this.

Obviously, I can’t haul off a lot of loot in fifteen minutes. My genius plan is to make it so the cover can’t close tight. Then I flip the cover off and haul it away when Mom is not home. It was a brilliant plan and I was able to empty the tin completely. But …

Alas, I made one mistake. I watched the old robbery films. If I had studied some of the new films, I would have known to disable the surveillance cameras. I got caught on camera and Mom made me put every last seed back in Fort Knox.

Here are some stills from the surveillance cameras of what was almost the greatest heist in chipmunk history and what has become the greatest blunder in chipmunk history.