EPIC Day (91/365)

OK, this post is extremely long but if you can stick with it I promise it has a worthwhile ending.

So my day started with this guy:

He is a little baby squirrel that was munching slowly on this wrapper on my lawn. The bottle cap might give you a size reference:

I went on to volunteering, and then on my walk home decided my theme today would be hydrants:

Kingston has so many types and makes of hydrants in a lot of strange colours, so that was interesting.

On the walk home I climbed up the external stair on one of the campus halls to snap this aerial of the medical quadrangle:

Up there was this guy:

Who was chattering away to this one here that I found when I got down again:

And these guys were milling about:

Inevitably, I got side-tracked by trees:

Which then led into flowers as I slowly wound my way home:

THEN I got back to my house and the baby squirrel had barely moved in five hours. I scooped him up in a hamster ball and brought him inside. He was FREEZING (it was below zero all night yesterday) so I heated up an oatmeal muscle wrap to warm and then put him in my recycling bin in my hall on the warmer:

I called the wildlife rescue and they said it would be safe to hold him and good for him because he was used to be surrounded and cuddled and would be warm in my hands, so here he is (photo credits to my housemate Kelsey here):

Ever once in a while I put him back down. Eventually he nodded off to sleep:

Just before they came to get him I picked him up once more to snap this pic and give him a last little cuddle. My housemate and I named him Trevor:

And now he is safely at the rescue and will be raised there until he is big enough to keep himself warm and fed! :0)