Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Squirrel Playtime…A Fun Poem.
Squirrel Playtime
There he goes right up the tree,
Climbing fast and running free.
Just watch him go, to the top,
Little squirrel, never stop.
Down he comes so very fast,
Jumps in the snow, at the last.
In the snow he likes to play,
Watch him now show off today!
Soon he’s back up in the tree,
Branch to branch he jumps quickly.
Moving fast, yet does not miss,
It’s quite something watching this.
Down again, right in the snow,
Jumping wild, just watch him go!
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Steve`s Country 
Cute photo! Love the poem. 🙂 A couple weeks ago I watched a squirrel rolling around in the snow. It’s funny to watch them play in the snow like little kids. Have a blessed Sunday Steve!
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Thanks so much Ryan! Yes indeed, they can be so much fun to watch! God bless!😁😸
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Very talented. Happy day to you and Muffin. Love your poems.
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Thank you so very much Pene!! Enjoy your day as well! Muffin and I are enjoying some cuddle time. A few snowflakes falling, a beautiful day.😁😸☃
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Good.
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Fun poem for real! 😉
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Merci!
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Ugh!
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Means=thank you.
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Oh you’re welcome!
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😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
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Sorry, didn’t get that one like I was suppose to
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😀=I’m happy.
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Yeah I knew that, but I was talking about the other thing.
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OOOOOOh.
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Yeah
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Years ago I was driving with my dad and a cat was on the grass to the left of the street. A squirrel started across. I always drive slow thru residential areas. The squirrel started crossing and saw me and then the cat, stopping he decided to regress to his starting place. Safer to avoid the cat. We laughed about squirrel story. Now that dads life has changed to Heaven, a squirrel will cross the road on a hurry scurry. Dad must have sent it.
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That’s good, squirrels are cute and fun animals to watch, thanks for sharing the story! And thanks so much for reading today!😃😺
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So beautiful Steve! What a joy seeing them play 🐿
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They certainly are fun animals to watch, they really seem to love playing. Thanks for reading Ribana!😃😺
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I wish I could see them more often too 😊🐿🐿 Have a wonderful evening Steve!
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Thank you Ribana!
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Nice photos Steve ! Your poem is right on…squirrels can run around quickly and it does look like they are flying from branch to branch…so cute !
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Thanks so much Sharon, glad you enjoyed this!
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great imagery; reminds of the squirrels in our yard!
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Thanks Jim! I think squirrels everywhere are the same, they like to play.😁
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Squirrels are soo cute! By the way I LOVE the poem steve!!😁😁😁
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Thanks Eshal! Hope you have a great day!
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your welcome and i hope i do have a great day!!!
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I love your poem and photos, Steve! Squirrels are such a delight to watch as they scamper around. ☕️☕️
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Thanks so much Eugenia! I hope you have a great day!😁😸⛄☕
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😉
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Hey!!! You forgot the part where he digs up my yard!!😉😲😂😂
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How can he do that with all that snow on the ground?😂😂🤣🤣⛄
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He got claws!!
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He’s only digging tunnels, nothing to worry about.
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Not till spring!!
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By then she’ll be too busy with babies to worry about digging holes.
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Yeah, but then she’ll teach them how… then what do I do😟🥺😔
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Give them all little shovels and pails so they’ll be neat when they dig.
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Im calling you to talk to them!!
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Are they red squirrels or gray squirrels?
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Big Grey Ones!!
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That’s too bad, I don’t speak gray squirrel.
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Yeah, well they seem to know how to speak Steve pretty well!! Are you sure they aren’t mover inners from Kenora??🤔🤔🤨🤨
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We don’t have grey squirrels up here, though years ago I did see a couple of gray squirrels but I haven’t seen any for years now. Surprisingly they can’t survive well where red squirrels are abundant.
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Not enough nuts up there
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Are you kidding? This country is full of nuts.
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Then why no squirrels?
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I was talking about people. But yeah, we don’t have nuts for those big squirrels, just pine cones which is good enough for the small squirrels. Lots of grey squirrels less than 2 hours west of us though. Lots of oak trees out that way.
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Ahhh.. you need to transplant them in your area😁
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We do have some that people planted, but they don’t seem to do well here for some reason.
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Not warm enough most likely! They seem to fussy about the climate they live in. Too hat like TX kinda od stunts them from growing very tall where as in MN they get quite tall.
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Yeah, the ones here get stunted too, most likely too cold all right. To the west in Manitoba it’s more like MN, the oak trees get big.
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You should fix that climate so it’s warmer. Get away from Hudsons Bay! That cold water mskes it cold all the time!
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We don’t have a Hudson’s Bay store here anymore, still hasn’t made a difference.
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Well they shoild have moved the town instead of the store! Silly on their part!
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That’s true. But then we would have to take the lake too. And MN wouldn’t like that because then their part of the lake would drain away into the huge hole left after we dig up our part of the lake to take with us.
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True.. didn’t think about!😟🥺🤔🤔 hmmm what to do?? I guess you’ll just need to be cold!😉😊🤭🤭
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If I didn’t know better I would think you were laughing at me. Sigh. 2 people in one day.😳😒☹
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I was trying help.. but you had take lake!
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We can’t have our town without a lake.
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I suppose..🤔🤔
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I’m glad you agree.😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
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Is supposing agreeing? Really? Hmmmm… not sure lot of grey there!🤭
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I suppose that agreeing could be gray, so does that mean that greying is supposing to agree?
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Maybe it was afreeing at one time and like they weren’t sure? Greying Agreeing hmm sure looks close!!
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That’s what I think too. Have you ever wondered how a printer can print grey when there is no black ink involved? There’s just red, blue and yellow. How does that combo give grey?
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Good question! You should ask google and see what it says!!😂😂
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It told me to bury my head in the snow.
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Hahah😂😂😂😂 did it help?
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Left me cold.
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Ill bet the headache is better 😂😂😂
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I don’t know, can’t feel anything.
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Thats good!
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I think I got brain freeze.
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Ohhh grape I hope??😁😁
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How did you know?🤔🤪😜
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Lucky guess😊😁
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How’s things going there Dusty, enjoying the reprieve from all that cold?
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I don’t know if you could call it z repreive? 25 is still cold to me!🥺😟😉🥶🥶
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Hey, 25 is just like spring temps up this way, who needs jackets in this?
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Ahhhh ME!!!🥶🥶🥶
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I admit, I still wear a jacket too, just a light one though, my winter jacket is too warm for this temp.
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I like mid 80’s perfect for Late January And February!😁😁😊
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Yep, would be nice, Hawaii here I come! Are you enjoying my story?🤔😀🕵️♂️🕵️♂️
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Yes but I need to go read 5 first before I get to 6. I had to go into the office today for pc issues so I’m a bit behind on my reading.. hey whats this you told Lydia we hadn’t talked in a week? We talked last Thursday!!
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Well, Thursday is last week isn’t it? So we haven’t talked since last week, so therefore it’s been a week. Right?🤔🤪😜😄😄
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Nope! A week is 7 days. So it won’t be last week until this Thursday at which time it becomes lsst week so technicslly it’s still this week until next week! See?
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Sorry, a new week starts on Sunday, so anything before that is last week which makes it a week no matter what day of the week since a week is all the days making it a total week even if all the days of the week are not all used up or have been more used than the others so it’s always a week once you get passed Sunday which makes last week one week otherwise you’re using days from this week which would make this week too short since it needs 7 days so you can’t take extra days from the week to make a week because that makes one week too long and the other week too short making it a week no matter what. See?
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I think your overthinkong it again. But what think is that you it had already been a week which it wasnt yet because it hadn’t reach next Sunday until next Sunday I think🤔🤔🤪🤪
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Speaking of thinking, getting any snow coming your way?😁😂🙄
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Had an inch or so overnight. Just enough to mess up the roads and the commute to work. Nothing horrible though!
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Yeah, those little bits of snow can actually be bad, makes things slippery. We’re supposed to get a couple inches tonight.
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Becareful on the doorstep in the morning!!
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Yep, that’s the scary part, don’t want a setback now!
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No way!! Its been what almost 4 months?
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Yep, getting close, happened Oct 3. They did say it was really bad, but this seems to be taking a long time. It has healed, but the muscle needs a lot of work to get back to normal working condition again. I’m getting a bit concerned about it. It would be hard if I couldn’t get back to walking along my river path again.
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Well.. that’s where the exercises help. Keeps the scar tissue from building up roo much. The more you excercise it the less scar tissue you’ll develop which translates tonormal walking agsin!!😁
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Yeah, I have actually noticed quite a bit of improvement the last couple weeks so I hope things will get back to normal soon.🙂
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Yep.. a little better every day!😉
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Yep, guess I just have to keep at it.
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Yepper
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Yepperee.
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Ill be back in minute or two.
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It’s already been 3.😒☹
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Im here! I mis calculated what i was cooking. It took 3 and a hslf minutes on the first cycle now its 5 and a half so i have time to visit
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I’m here, got my hot chocolate and ready to…
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Ooo yummy
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Yeah, hot chocolate that has no chocolate but still tastes like chocolate.
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Is that like the Burger King burger that’s not burger but plants thats like burger? Or is it meat that tastes like chocolate but it’s not made of chocolate so you can get more protein?
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Exactly! It’s just plants that taste like chocolate even though they have no chocolate in them to taste like chocolate but when you put them all together then they taste like chocolate even without chocolate taste.
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They should leave stuff alone
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Then I wouldn’t have hot chocolate.😭😭☕☕
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Well would you rather have hot plant?? Yuck!!
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Yep. I drink raspberry leaf tea, that’s hot plant.
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See all natural!
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I agree, the sea is natural.
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Very but kinda salty! Not good for high blood pressure patients! Hrhehe
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Phone, back shortly.
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Okie dokie
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I’m back. Was I missed?
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With every shot we took! Ahahah😂😂😂
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Hmm, throwing snowballs at me again.🙄⛄😒
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Well you asked if I missed you… I cant help it im a poor shot!!😉😂
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I’m going to text those squirrels and tell them to start throwing acorns.🙄🙄
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They can’t find them under the snow!! HA!
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That’s what you think. They are storing them in your attic.
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You could be more right than you know!!😂😂😂
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They get better internet reception there.
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I wouldn’t doubt it!! They steal my satellite tv signal!🤨🤨🤨
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Yep, I think someone told them how to tap into it.🙄
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Gee i wonder who speaks grey squirrel that I know?🤨🤨
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That’s a good question. Hmm.🤔😹
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Mmm huh!
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I think I have an idea.
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Uh oh.. i mean oh okay what have got?
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That would take an hour. But I think I know who’s been talking to those squirrels of yours.
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Yeah?? Lets hear it! I wanna talk to them!!
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I can’t. I would like to, but…
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Butt what? Was someone I know? Was it Renee??🤯
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No, Renee is too nice for that.
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Uh oh.. I sense something coming I don’t want to know!🥺😟
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Yep, me too.😳😛😵🙀
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Dont you dare!! I never did anything real mean to you!
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I’m glad you liked this little poem Outosego!! Thanks so much!
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