Wednesday, May 28, 2008

the night visitor!

our new backyard friend...

who would have thought that in the middle of Salt lake City we would have such a great fun night visitor.  A raccoon.  He is big and full of himself.  He climbs in to the backyard from the tree tops and for awhile was dumping over Da's buckets of bird food - until one night Molly, our dog heard  him and raised the alert that something, or someone was in the backyard.... so finally with flash light in hand we spotted him up to his shenanigans  trying to bust up the bird food storage...  he looked at us like 'have you never seen a racoon before?' and kept on going... so every night now we have his company in our backyard.. he is big and cute and does not seem to mind us watching like little children through our bedroom window to see what he does.  We have decided to put food out for him so he leaves the bird stuff alone and he is content with our choices...  We woke mom and elham up to see him - had to share the middle of the night fun!   In a world that is so fast and so full of so many new and fancy electronic gadgets there is wonder to be found in the sight of a raccoon making his nightly visit to our yard...  it gives us great stories to tell and he is hurting no one.. so we hope he continues.  It is a piece of the wild coming Right to us and that is so fun....  We think is very smart to pick us as we will not bother him or disturb him and just let him be.... He is a gift to us!

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