Oh. My. God. I. Have. Hedgehogs.

[electricalgwen]

It's been hot here. Really hot. Record-breaking hot. Cools down nicely at night though, when I open all the windows. Tonight, though, for the first time, I've taken my laptop out in the tiny back yard. I'm sitting at our patio table, watching the sky fade through an odd sort of steely blue mixed with yellowish-grey smoke at the edges, lovely meandering breeze with scents of honeysuckle and mown grass, and listening to this constant rustling in the ivy and leaf litter around the walls.

Initially I assumed it was the cat who'd been on the walls earlier - it's getting too dark to see well - but then the rustling was right up beside me, maybe three feet away, and the ivy is not so thick I wouldn't see a black-and-white tabby. So I looked a little closer... and a hedgehog came ambling out. Came across the patio and is now sitting where my feet would be if I hadn't folded them up under me at his approach.

There's another one down on the other wall, I can still hear the rustling.

Dear God. I have hedgehogs in my garden.

Life is good. :)

Comments

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

HEDGEHOGS!!!!

Omg! Hedgehogs are the CUTEST!

Eeeeee!

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

Yes! They are! Urchins!
Hee, rodent-themed icon!

[iadorespike]

!!! Hedgehogs?!!! How fun is that?! Your garden sounds lovely, and I'm glad it was finally *not so hot* that you couldn't go out and enjoy it for a bit. :) Your description of the evening was lovely—I almost felt as if I were sharing it with you. *nods*

Anna *hugs*

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

Evenings are really beautiful here right now - they cool down nicely, and the light is so rich, it's a thick golden-syrup layer on everything.

I squee'd about the hedgehogs to some people at work who were very blase (having lived all their lives in a country with hedgehogs) and simply warned, "Don't let them in the kitchen, they have fleas." :)

[wickedchocolate.livejournal.com]

Hedgehogs are cute animals and cool littel garden helpers. Eating snails and insects and stuff. They make such funny noises while feeding.
Years ago we had a mummy hedgehog and her three babies in our garden. Gods were they cute! :-) Maybe you have little ones, too. By the way they love cat food.

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

Cat food, huh?
We have no cat, but we do have (or used to have, anyway) an abundance of snails and occasional giant slugs. Come to think of it, the snail population has dropped off noticeably...
Ooh, baby hedgehogs would be the CUTEST! :)