my mother's groundhog

For the past few months my mom has been stalking a groundhog. Yes, a groundhog. On her route to work there is a specific exit that she takes. This exit has a ramp that goes down and on the side has a big grassy hill. A while back she noticed a few burrows on this grassy hill. Now if you know my mother or have heard me talk about my mother then you know that she is interested in EVERYTHING! So of course, these lovely burrows interested her little mind and on her way to work she continued to watch these burrows for anything living in them. Finally one day she was sitting at the light on the exit ramp and saw, what she thought at the time, a hedgehog sitting at the top of the grassy hill. She flipped out! Seriously, my mother was fascinated by this creature and couldn't wait to get home and spend endless hours researching what she had just seen. My dad, my sister and I heard all about it--"it's just so cute!"--"I can't believe I found it!"--"I'm gonna get me a picture of it." She even had me drive to the exit for her so that she could get a picture of it!

After some extensive research on the ever faithful internet, my mom discovered that hedgehogs don't live in this area. So she ruled out that it was a hedgehog and decided it must be a groundhog. She looked up picture after picture of groundhogs and decided that this creature living the burrows off exit 12 was a groundhog. She continued to "visit" it hoping that she could catch a photo of it here and there. She even had people honking at her because she would stop in the middle of the road while the light was green just trying to get a picture of this groundhog.

So then I was home the other week and my mom told me that she had something to show me. So she gets out her computer and pulls up this picture of the groundhog that she has been stalking. She had took a photo of it but to me, this photo was blurry and not even zoomed in so in reality you couldn't really tell if there was a groundhog in it or not. She swore to me that it was there and even pointed to some blurry spot claiming that it was the groundhog. I just laughed and told her that she was funny.

Well, my mother ended up buying a new camera. (I think so she could get a better picture of this groundhog. But seriously, she got a new camera that has so many more megapixels so she can get a good picture of her groundhog. And yesterday, she sent it to me. This is the picture she took the other day of her little friend. Enjoy!