May from Kate - comments>raccoons>blissful ignorance.

 

Kate's envelope did not photograph very well. The colors are way off. They should be a delightful shade of lavender. While I am curious, I do not see an investigation in my future on adjusting colors. I like that style of writing very much and it seems like something I could replicate. And white dots -- a perfect detail to add. Quite a few people are taking me up on the offer to use Jean Marie instead of Jean Wilson - and I think it's a much nicer pair of names. 

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My final comment about raccoons is public service information. I learned from the guys who came to deal with the bats in the attic and the chipmunks in the crawl space that citizens are not supposed to kill raccoons. I guess we are on the honor system. Bats are protected. Raccoons are not. Apparently people are told to trap raccoons and then release them *far away.* 

It won't matter how far away you dump them - because other people might have trapped a different  raccoon and just dumped it a couple miles away - which turns the released raccoon into what's known as *an educated raccoon.* It will recognize traps and not crawl inside. 

The only solution is to move to a high rise and I'm not ready for that. Tomorrow we will pick up the blissful ignorance thread.