Meet "Peanut"

For 3 weeks, this cute neighborhood squirrel has become a community pet of sorts. He will come up within a foot and wait patiently for peanuts, hence his assigned name. Today he blocked my path on the front sidewalk as I was trekking to Walgreen's. I obliged him by going back in the house for some legume treats. I wonder why he's so brazen? Oh yeah, we keep feeding him free peanuts.

The next door neighbors even let him come in their house for peanuts. Not here. Lately Peanut has been walking on 3 legs by avoiding the right rear which makes me wonder how he got injured, and if those "tiny instruments" from the Seinfeld episode really exist. "I thought we had a deal!"