Friday, July 27, 2012

Guess Who Else Came for Sunday Dinner?


Boys at Sunday Dinne
Sunday's at our house are family dinner days.  A chance for all to catch up on happenings, visiting about what happened during the past week and talk about what is coming up. The cousins get to play, play and play some more.  They have so much fun together.  They always play baseball and 'bad guys'.  Here they are playing both.  This is always after they have had their fill of carrots.


This last Sunday we were having a visit on the deck, waiting for the BBQ grill to get going when right there walking along side the deck was a mother raccoon.  Not surprising as we have raccoon visits frequently.  (Just last week they ate all 7 of my fish that had survived last years slaughter.

Momma with 4 babies
What was surprising was that following along in a perfect line were 5 (five!) babies.  She led them along to the side yard, up the fence, up the sycamore tree and there they played for 30 minutes.  As if putting on a show just for us, those cute babies played 'King of the Branch' trying to push each other to their death 20 feet below. They climbed over and under each other, dragged each other the length of the branch, ran back to mom and bit, tugged and pulled. The boys could hardly believe their eyes! Raccoons wrestle just like kittens.


This baby trailed behind and makes 5

We watched in delight and just as they came, with some hidden signal from mom, down they went, onto the fence and followed it over to a neighboring yard. 

We were left with smiles on our faces.  

I hope your Sundays are as delightful.

2 comments:

  1. Love the raccoons' antics. We live in Texas and they visit our yard daily. We have 2 moms; one with 5 babies, one with 3. The share our yard with the feral cats and kittens and are not much different - playing and wrestling and 'hanging out at the pool'. We put a small kiddie pool back there to help with the Texas heat. They love it!

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  2. We have a small pond in our yard and I am sure that is part of the attraction here, although it's interesting to see what is misplaced in the yard after they visit at night. The gazing ball is almost always rolled to a different place in the yard. I would love to catch a glimpse of them playing with that!

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