Look for these squirrel giveaways: small, cone-shaped holes in your lawn, ransacked bird feeders, and damaged flower bulbs.

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“Hey, get off my pumpkins, you rats!” I yelled. “Scram, shoo!” I waved my arms around, forgetting that I was still holding a little pumpkin. The stem broke off and the pumpkin flew at my front door, ...

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Most of us picture a perfect garden as neat, trimmed, and cleared of every fallen leaf by the time winter arrives.

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The state’s true character can be found down dirt roads without traffic lights and inside warmly lit farmhouse inns.