Wednesday, July 9, 2008

you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here...

that's pretty much what i told this little guy when i found him (or her) in my backyard. he was way to close to my tiny vegetable garden and i had a million things going on. i did not have time for this foolishness.

i gave him plenty of warning before i let maggie out. maggie chased him up the side of my house. i banged a broom on the house and said, "you have to GO!" "shouldn't you be in bed?" "you have to go now."

turned out to be a great lesson for mac and i. we learned overtired, average-sized raccoons can hold onto the side of a brick house for about 18 minutes before falling off. 
seriously, i should homeschool. 

1 comment:

maeklingler said...

This is so weird because someone from work just came in today saying that at 5 a.m. there was a raccoon hanging on the side of their house trying to get in their windows. Theirs took about an hour to fall off though. Was there some kind of raccoon full moon yesterday or something? Denim bags must repel them. Well…denim bags repel a lot of things.