Cali scolded me on the phone last night for not updating the family blog in a while.
Well, that's what happens when you get INVADED. My laptop - where I do my blogging from and have all the programs I need was INVADED - by a Trojan Virus.
Tessa and a couple of her friends were playing around on YouTube one night and managed to click over to some site where the virus was allowed in! Despite my security programs which have now been upgraded even more!!
One morning I was standing at the kitchen window and looked out to see a big, fat raccoon walking across our patio. I watched him/her as he took a left hand turn right into our fenced in vegetable garden. He knew where he was going!
As well as nuts and oranges.
Then on Saturday Jim was sitting in his office and I heard him yell out "There it is!" It was once again strolling across the patio. Jim ran out and stuffed the hole with a big log.
So we are hoping it is out and it has no friends under there waiting for it!!
Jim is getting up his nerve to crawl under the house this next weekend to see what kind of damage has been done. Our neighbors had one last year and had to put a claim against their homeowners to have all the damage to their duct system and insulation fixed!!
Here's hoping for an invasion free week!
Well, that's what happens when you get INVADED. My laptop - where I do my blogging from and have all the programs I need was INVADED - by a Trojan Virus.
Tessa and a couple of her friends were playing around on YouTube one night and managed to click over to some site where the virus was allowed in! Despite my security programs which have now been upgraded even more!!
Thanks to Lee - my personal computer guy for taking such good care of me and getting up and running again!!
The Trojan Virus was not not the only INVASION we had this past week though.
One morning I was standing at the kitchen window and looked out to see a big, fat raccoon walking across our patio. I watched him/her as he took a left hand turn right into our fenced in vegetable garden. He knew where he was going!
Jim went out and looked around and sure enough there was an open vent right by the air conditioner where a raccoon could climb under the house and take up residence.
Not knowing whether the raccoon was under the house or not we didn't want to board up the hole and end up with a DEAD raccoon under the house! Jim stuffed a towel into the hole figuring the raccoon would be able to push it out if he was still under there.
The next morning the towel had been pushed out so we figured we had an uninvited house guest!
We borrowed a trap from the neighbors to try and catch the thing.
We learned that raccoons like peanut butter sandwiches.
As well as nuts and oranges.Jim baited and set the trap.
Despite numerous efforts and two different traps we were unable to catch the thing. It could get the food out of the trap but not get caught!
Then on Saturday Jim was sitting in his office and I heard him yell out "There it is!" It was once again strolling across the patio. Jim ran out and stuffed the hole with a big log.
So we are hoping it is out and it has no friends under there waiting for it!!
Jim is getting up his nerve to crawl under the house this next weekend to see what kind of damage has been done. Our neighbors had one last year and had to put a claim against their homeowners to have all the damage to their duct system and insulation fixed!!
Here's hoping for an invasion free week!
4 comments:
Just wondering what you would do if you caught it? What kind of recipes would you be posting that week? Stew? BBQ?
Michelle,
We even joked about that very thing! Raccoon Stew - yum!!!
No the poor thing would be driven across town - as far away from our house as we could get it and then released!! Someone told us you need to take them 30-40 miles away or they can find their way back!
I hope there wasn't damage yet. What a frustration. At different times, we have had raccoons, mice, bees and skunks take up residence with us. Each was a different challenge to be rid of.
How frustrating!!! I wish you the best that he finds another home. You have raccoons stories and we have bird stories, that will be a fun story time one day. I am excited for the play post next week, and love that I get to send Cali home to you today!
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