I actually find myself having a lot to talk about all of a sudden! I will split this up into three parts to make it easier, and I'll start with the part Casey really wants me to talk about.
Friday night I was sitting in the living room watching TV like usual, and I heard a rustling outside the window. I figured it was a deer or squirrel passing through, but the rustling started to sound more like digging after a minute. I turned on the light in the back, and looked out the window to see a little skunk looking for food. I went out the back door to get a closer look, and saw that it was only the size of a small cat, so I figured it had to be young. Just then the one neighborhood cat Lily came onto the porch, and I saw that something bad could happen. I brought her through the house to our front porch so she could just hang there. Of course this led to Lily this morning sneaking into the house when Casey came inside, which was pretty funny. Anyways, Casey checked out the skunk for a while of course before it scurried off into the woods, and things were back to normal...until the next night.
While I was watching UFC Fight Night (which will be in another blog), I heard some noise out on our front porch. From past experience, I figured it was either Orion and Lily horsing around or the resident raccoon was making a visit. I looked out on the porch, and saw both Lily and Orion were looking toward the porch door. I look over, and I see two sets of raccoon eyes looking at me. I step out to shoo them away, and all hell breaks loose. Both cats take off after the raccoons, I run out to stop them and scare a third raccoon, Orion stops in the driveway to stand guard, and Lily runs under my truck. I look at the one tree next to our driveway, and see two young raccoons climb up it, and just stare at me while they make some noises that sounded like they were scared. The third raccoon that was probably the mother had scurried past the tree, and was waiting for the other two. I calmed down, and called for the cats to come back to the porch so as not to scare them anymore. Then the raccoons took off into the night. Coming back inside, Casey scolded me for scaring the raccoons, so if I ever see them again, I have to "apologize" somehow. Oh well, it was interesting enough to see all this wildlife closer then I had before. Hopefully this doesn't occur too often...
Joe
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