I understand completely Angela, I myself am completely untrainable. My X-wifey will be happy to confirm this.

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Do any of you watch The Orville?

If so, did you happen to catch this?

https://youtu.be/-yIXmjTL-HM

If not, check it out. It's only 28 seconds and well worth it!

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~Sue~

MMMM, on my last visit, I happened to see a light on in the Garage. Ang asked me to turn it off. Among Eric's relics, I thought I also saw a car parked there.

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Pluto will always be a Planet to me.

MMMM, on my last visit, I happened to see a light on in the Garage. Ang asked me to turn it off. Among Eric's relics, I thought I also saw a car parked there.

Nope. No car. That is all junk under that blue tarp. We did some serious earthquake retro-fitting earlier in the year and Eric had to move his junk under a tarp because we were shoring up a wall in the garage. In the hope of someday using our garage for its intended purpose, I had a handyman later install shelving units from floor to ceiling on the wall we had retrofitted. The junk has not yet come out from under the tarp and found its way onto shelves.

Basically, our garage is one big black widow spider refuge. I should petition the government to have it designated a wildlife preserve.

Do any of you watch The Orville?

If so, did you happen to catch this?

https://youtu.be/-yIXmjTL-HM

If not, check it out. It's only 28 seconds and well worth it!

Nope, I caught only the last 10 mins. :(

But you can watch it here.

The last ten minutes aren't relevant to our group. Nor is the episode as a whole.

Did you watch the video I posted?!

Did anyone watch the video I posted?!

It IS relevant to our group.

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~Sue~

I watched it. It was funny! Thanks.

I watched it. It was funny! Thanks.

Thank you, Ang.

We like to think the work we do is not in vain.

;-)

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~Sue~

Hmmmmmm....LOL.
I wonder what sacrifices our CRL makes to the raccoon gods.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Hmmmmmm....LOL.
I wonder what sacrifices our CRL makes to the raccoon gods.

My dignity?

Hmmmmmm....LOL.
I wonder what sacrifices our CRL makes to the raccoon gods.

My dignity?

Awwww.....I don't think you lose much dignity associating with such cute little grranimals, Angela.
I had a couple nibbling at the kibble bowls on my front porch last night!

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Eric got the title wrong. It should read "Walnut and Brazil Nut get trained"
https://youtu.be/avd-W5-fqsM


Macademia's paws!
https://youtu.be/MDlK4Z7Jpgo

Eric got the title wrong. It should read "Walnut and Brazil Nut get trained"
https://youtu.be/avd-W5-fqsM

Wow. I can see you in a year or so on America's Got Talent. "Angie and her nuts."

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~Sue~

Eric got the title wrong. It should read "Walnut and Brazil Nut get trained"
https://youtu.be/avd-W5-fqsM

Wow. I can see you in a year or so on America's Got Talent. "Angie and her nuts."

Or "The Raccoon Whisperer"?

Did you hear the snarl at the end of the video? That was Macademia Bobo reminding me that he had not received a peanut recently enough. So, of course, I reinforced his nasty little snarl. Makes you wonder, doesn't it, exactly who is training whom?

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Ang, the offer to help with the garage is still open!

On an other matter, I like to pay it forward. After WW2 my family send care packets to Poland. I would like to help with regards to a family in or around Arecibo. Can you or Eric put me in touch with someone? Flat rate shipping via USPS makes this a great deal.

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Pluto will always be a Planet to me.

As we don't have raccoons here, this is the next best thing, squirrels and their appeal is basically similar, they have proved to be intelligent and "eat with their paws".

I have seen them raid the park bins and somewhere have a picture of one eating pizza

Now having spent a year on the Isle of Wight where I only saw squirrels from the kitchen window and never on my daily walk, it is interesting that at this time of year the park is literally teeming with them, unfortunately grey not red, but they still appeal.

This one was sitting on one of the community gardens raised bed where we have just planted lot of saffron bearing crocus bulbs, hence the green netting. It seemed unfazed by me talking several pictures.



This was one of the many in the park the next day, pausing from digging to enjoy a snack.

Ang, the offer to help with the garage is still open!

On an other matter, I like to pay it forward. After WW2 my family send care packets to Poland. I would like to help with regards to a family in or around Arecibo. Can you or Eric put me in touch with someone? Flat rate shipping via USPS makes this a great deal.

Hi Uli,

What a kind offer! The best way to help, however, it to make a donation to the Red Cross and earmark it for Puerto Rico relief.

Thanks!

It's the time of year when they are burying food for the winter. The little buggers are digging up all our flower boxes and beds on the patio. Last year I made the mistake of buying squirrel food. All they did was dig holes and bury it. Not putting any out this year, unless a foot of snow.

LOL! Our California squirrels are too lazy to dig holes. I pulled out some spent rhubarb leaves the other day and found a squirrel cache of peanuts right underneath one of the leaves. No digging involved - just push the peanuts under a big leaf.

Hehehe, love it. Do Raccoons stash any food away as not having the winters we do I would have thought there was no need?

No. Raccoons do not stash food away. They eat everything in sight right away. Impulse control is not one of their cognitive strengths.