Squirrel Appreciation Day is this week! Let's work up some excitement for this event with some squirrel factlets.

Squirrels are organized. Give them a pile of mixed nuts and they will hide them by type, all the peanuts in one place, all the almonds in another.

Without squirrels there would be no truffles and who wants to live in a world without truffles. Truffles germinate with spores, not pollen, and it's up to our little fluffy friends to spread the spores with their poop. Go, squirrels, go.

And how about this? Squirrels used to be a very popular pet, even being sold in pet stores. President Warren G. Harding had one named Pete who had the run of the White House, showing up at cabinet meetings where he would be fed nuts.

And now for my bridge tie-in. Last Friday I overheard someone describe their partner as a "real squirrel." Turns out it must have been a compliment.

Let's make like squirrels and gather some facts about Take-Out Doubles, one of the most useful bids in bridge.