McWhitey

So, for anyone who isn't familiar with my particular corner of Wisconsin, we have a significant population of white squirrels running around among the grey, black, and slightly reddish ones. Generally, though, they don't come to our birdfeeder. A couple of years ago, we had one white one amongst our regular grey customers. For some reason my dad singled him out and started hand-feeding him leftover nuts from Christmas. We named him McWhitey.

Today a guy leaned out of the window of his truck and called to me "Sister White!" (which is apparently the English translation of the word 'obruni.') And that's when it hit me; I'm the albino squirrel in the backyard.