Bangs McCoy

I need a new ‘coonskin cap

July 10th, 2007

Tonight as Bryan and I were putting away some garden implements (I had been working on the front flowerbed) at around 9:00, we heard some rustling in the apricot tree. We have known for a long time that raccoons enjoy that tree. As soon as the fruit starts to ripen each summer, there is quite a mess on the grass back there every morning. Not just fruit. Half-eaten fruit, bare pits, leaf clusters, sometimes entire broken branches. Bryan spotted a raccoon in the crook of the tree a week or so ago at about 11:00 (pm). However, we never expected to see them out this early in the evening. We also didn’t expect to see a whole raccoon family. There were at least four babies, plus a mother somewhere (we didn’t spot her but there was plenty of rustling up there). At one point, all four babies were perched one one branch next to each other. I didn’t capture that photo op, but you can see two siblings in the pictures below. They were about the size of a small cat, and not the least bit concerned about us.

 

Of course I had to go get Camillia to check them out. Two of our YW, Nicole and Julie, were visiting her, so they came to see them too - then they wanted to keep the raccoon babies as pets.

Oh, and special thanks to my mom for letting me borrow her new Bissell carpet cleaner today. Rees and Jamie thank you for their nice clean carpet.

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