Like the ant in the old tale of the ant and the grasshopper, this little guy is planning ahead for winter. And he's working hard at it. 
I always tend to assume that animals have an inborn sense of what they need to do, and that's what guides their actions. In this case, I'm not so sure.
Maybe the sense that nature gave them doesn't take human interaction / interference into account.
Every day I see him go past the slider in my office on his way to our wood storage. For the most part, he's in constant motion. He's either in our pine tree extracting seeds from the pine cones ( and throwing all his "leftovers" down for me to sweep up) or he's making his trips to the wood pile.
Sometimes he stops for a few minutes and sits outside the window to chatter at my cat or the dogs who are sitting inside staring at him. I think he's teasing them, knowing that for the moment at least, he's safe.
Of course, they'd all love it if I'd open the door and let them chase him!
I'm just hoping that all those pine nuts he (or she?) is storing are waaayyyy back at the back of the wood shed. I don't want to disturb the nest when winter comes and that wood starts making its way to my stove.
This squirrel would do well to think this through - but of course he doesn't know that. He sees the wood pile, and doesn't think "What if that crazy lady in there moves this wood?"
So what can we learn from him?
That things aren't always as they seem, and that we need to apply some "what if" thinking to our plans for the future.
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