tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3843125623680933499.post1562704166200861129..comments2024-02-26T03:20:42.002-05:00Comments on SPLANEYO: Let The Battle BeginHeatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17093539691215750130noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3843125623680933499.post-63996811698583301552008-04-21T10:20:00.000-05:002008-04-21T10:20:00.000-05:00How funny! Raccoons are very smart creatures.... t...How funny! Raccoons are very smart creatures.... too bad we don't get to see any here. <BR/><BR/>Pd: The house in the roses is having a dessert carnival… come and participate. It promises to be FANTASTIC!!! <BR/><BR/>Have a great day<BR/><BR/>CieloCIELOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10970051028104694707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3843125623680933499.post-73931160940030679482008-04-19T18:36:00.000-05:002008-04-19T18:36:00.000-05:00We have a second story deck (above a flat roofed a...We have a second story deck (above a flat roofed addition). I used to have my office in the room below it. When my oldest child was still a baby, and I was listening to him on the baby monitor, I heard FOOTSTEPS above my head late at night. I was convinced it was people walking around up there (maybe they'd been hiding out in the attic all day! who knows!). I called M to come home from work - his office was about a mile away and he got home <I>fast</I>. When he arrived, he found me at the bottom of the steps holding our biggest knife, which he gently removed from my hand before going upstairs. You may have guessed where this story is going: it was raccoons on the deck! And it was not the last time I've mistaken the coons for humans - they're loud! And they'll play with anything we leave up there! We had some nesting in our chimney one year, so we hired a critter removal guy catch and release those (then replaced the chimney cap!). Raccoons are a thoroughly urban species so we see some pretty much every year... <BR/><BR/>Tricia (from GWWSCN)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3843125623680933499.post-48286582540547704302008-04-19T17:50:00.000-05:002008-04-19T17:50:00.000-05:00Racoons are so agile, too...they can open anything...Racoons are so agile, too...they can open anything and are quite persistant...little boogers! I'll root for you and hubbin...from the sidelines...hope you figure out how to win this one...I agree...they are cute...for a brief season...then they become litte/big pests...<BR/><BR/>I had a rather surprising visit the other night on my rock patio after the high winds and rain...I saw what I thought was a stream of water running between the rocks on the porch...I went closer b/c it is not a place that should have had any water...but I just thought with the high winds...the rain came closer to the house...IT WAS NOT WATER...it was a SNAKE...yep...I ran like the wind to the back door...and then LOCKED it...yea...that'll show him!!<BR/><BR/>Blessings...<BR/>TeresaLivingTheLifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10471996311329520781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3843125623680933499.post-5021860976587822322008-04-16T14:16:00.000-05:002008-04-16T14:16:00.000-05:00How funny! If our cats were not done with their f...How funny! If our cats were not done with their food by about 8pm - we had an entire family of racoons that were more than willing to finish it off for them every night!<BR/><BR/> Please stop by my blog and read about a creative contest I am holding with a great prize. If you are not interested - please forward it onto as many people as you can. Thank you!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14068762965886417061noreply@blogger.com