From Lynne in May - comment>raccoon>blissful

 

Lynne's envelope is so pretty. The add-ons for the next 7 days are all done and I had just uploaded this photo when I was interrupted by raccoons. Ironically, the add-on includes wishful thinking that the raccoons have given up. I've been researching - and calling critter control - and nobody has anything encouraging to say. It's getting discouraging. It's late. I'll just stop writing. 

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This week's stream of consciousness went from the comment left by the Singaporean company to coffee to AI to raccoons. I have been in an epic battle with some raccoons. I live in a city that grew out of Fort Des Moines which was a fort built in 1843 at the fork of the Des Moines River and the Raccoon river. If there were no fences and you walked out my back door, you would be less than a block from a huge swath of wilderness that is right in the middle of the city and wanders out to the actual wilderness. It still floods from time to time, so it will remain wilderness.* Most people would say the deer are the biggest problem. I can't really say which critters are my least favorite. Currently it is raccoons. 

They have walked casually along our window sills and looked in to see what we are eating. They have tried to come down the chimney. Most recently, they thought they could take advantage of my son who lives a mile away. Little did they know, they have me to contend with. This has been an epic battle. 

Amend that. I wish I could say *this has been.* It has been going on for three weeks and I am sitting here at  6:30 am - getting ready to head over to the battleground and see if it is time to up the ante.

*next topic>blissful ignorance