Wildlife adventures...

There is just always, always, always something...

Last night, I had a small dish of food on the porch for Orange Cat, which I usually take inside before dark.  Well... I forgot.... and the Meow Mix was out there right by the door and a raccoon came up and started eating it, while Orange Cat sat there on the doormat and just watched him. What happened to the days when that orange cat chased away the raccoons?  Is he getting too soft and too pudgy now that he's being fed on a regular basis?

My husband happened to hear noise on the porch and opened the door... and found the raccoon right there...... so he grabbed an umbrella, opened the door and pointed my very pretty pink umbrella at the raccoon as if it were a gun. The raccoon went running for the hills, and Orange Cat just sat there on the doormat, wide-eyed and stunned and wondering what on earth was happening. That cat just stared at my husband and couldn't take his eyes off of the umbrella. (Maybe pink is the cat's favorite color.)

As all of that was happening, I was in the kitchen and just watching from a distance. When my husband came back inside and started to close the door, I noticed a scorpion on the molding around the inside of the door frame. I handed the Dust-Buster-thing to my husband and asked him to use it to get the scorpion. Well, he tried that, but it just didn't work on the recessed molding. The scorpion just sat there looking at him.

"Get me the hammer," said my husband.......... and that's what he used (one good whack) to squash the scorpion into the next life, and then into the trash.

My husband said he'd never seen a scorpion up so high before... usually they're on the floor. I reminded my husband that when we first moved here, scorpions were falling out of the air-conditioning vents on the ceiling. That doesn't happen anymore because my husband put fine mesh netting in those ducts, so now the scorpions have to find other paths to find a way down from the depths of the attic. And they do, I've no doubt.

Another day in this country bubble.