Thursday 19 Raccoons at the Diner

getting ready. Come on. Come on. Oh, we got a whole big pan of grapes. Look at that. He's Oh, he's going to dig one out, huh? Pull it off. There you go. You guys know how to do it. Hey, little stoop baby. There you go. Come on. Look at the little babies. He's a little fellow there. I know. That's a tiny one. One's That's a little one. There's one there is half the size of his mother. Hey, you. What you doing up there on the stoop? You coming down? Hey, girl. Oops. I'll get it. I tried this last year. There we go. Hey, hang on. Mama's coming. And we had a bad Connor today. Yeah, you let him out the house. I didn't leave. Well, I didn't know he was asleep in the tree and I went out to feed the birds and next thing you know, between my legs and gone. Yep. But he only stayed out not about an hour, wasn't it? Yeah. A little over an hour. Yeah. Then he wanted back in. He tried to climb a tree. Yeah. You get partway up a tree. Yeah. What are you doing over there? He goes up halfway and jumps down. Yeah. Come on. Are you coming, little one? one there by his mother. The baby, the small baby. God, he's tiny. He is little, isn't he? Yeah. Look at the size of this one. I know. This one's bigger. Yeah. He's in the water. He's twice the size of that one beside him. Now, where is he going? I don't know what this one's doing. It's on the It's on the outside of the rail climbing down. Where you going, little one? I don't think he knows himself. I don't think he knows either. No. Come on. There's two more coming from the All right. Here from the law the lawn parties breaking up. They're coming up here. Come on. Here they come. Here we go. Oh, another baby. Yep. Yeah. Another baby. That one over there, he's stuck on the outside rail. We got to figure out how to get him around. Well, he he fit through. There's some cookies. Yeah, baby girl. So, we were delayed coming out here. My grandchildren face behind me. That's right. Yeah. She get to talk to her grandkids down in Atlanta. Yeah. And they're doing good. Yeah. The little ones starting gymnastics and they got to see the raccoons. Yep. They got to see the raccoons. They got to see the cats. What do they think of that? They got They got to see Charlotte. And what they what they think of the raccoon? Oh, they like the raccoons. Well, they got raccoons in Atlanta. Yeah, but not like this. No. Yeah. No, they don't have them running around them. Look. Stand up. That's the big mama, isn't it? Hi. Yeah. Come on. I don't know what it is about the uh they they like sitting by the top step. I know. Yeah. Oh, look at look at the Rascal. Who? Or not Rascal. Uh Woody. Where is Woody? He's right. Just throw it down there. She'll get it. Yeah, she got it. There's a garden party going on down there. I know. Well, I mean, it's a frat party out here at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. Let me tell you what I come home out to when I get up in the morning. And last night, every single table turned over. All the tables were tipped over. The All the buckets are turned over. Buckets are out in the yard. Yeah. It's like they've had a party out here. Was the buckets buckets in the yard? Yeah, the buckets were That's what I heard in the noise. And then I heard I heard somebody going over the roof. One fellow was running across the roof. And I have steel roofs. You could hear him. Yeah. And he's still going up there. Uh, he was he was up for that bite. There you go. Yep. Are you eating grapes? You eating cookies and cookies. So, they got lots of grapes there. There won't be a thing left here in the morning. Your little ones. Well, it won't be nothing left in two hours. You see them coming from every which way? Huh? I know. They're coming out of the woodwork. Yeah, they're roaming around down there. Hi there. I like this little guy here. God, he's small. Yeah, the other little guy is still he's still on the outside rail. Yeah, he Well, his head's poking out through here. He's watching. Uh he has figured out how to get through there yet. Yeah. Well, you can get through because he's I think he might be too chunky. No, I don't think. Look at the mile on the lawn down there. Hey everybody, what are y'all doing? There you go. Hang on, Woody. All right. Who's that? You want a cookie? Oh, there's your buddy coming. Oh, look. Isn't that it? I'm not sure who that is. They're eating a hot dog. Whoever they are. Yeah. Is that good? Are those good? Yeah. There he is. He's coming. Hey, sweetie. Tuma. [Laughter] That was cool, huh? Yep. Need you get Here's another one. Hang on. Mama's coming. He dropped He dropped it and it went flying down on the lawn. Give him a hot dog. Is there any hot dogs left? Yeah. You got to figure out how to get up here, little one. He's trying his best to get a hot dog. That one on the outside. Come on. There you go. Oh, he got some cookies. And nobody's allowed in the woods in Nova Scotia. Nope. Cuz of the They aren't wearing a fire ban. Got a fire ban on. Yep. Not allowed in any of the parks. He's enjoying that. What's he eating? Cookie. A cookie. Is he ever enjoying it? Look. Want another one? Want another one? Yeah. You going to have another one? Here you go. Soak it up. Good. We got baby. These babies, they're just so precious. The baby there. There's another baby having a drink. And this one's got his head stuck out through the rungs there. He's watching something. Uhoh. No, he's going up there. Where are you going? Look at him just hanging there. Huh? Where you going, honey? We used to have a a stoop there. You took it down. Well, I took it down cuz they were they were getting tearing the screen on the bathroom window. So, we took it down. Hey, let's be nice. Well, Mr. Connor was being bad. Oh, I know. Yeah, you got to watch. Uh, and I didn't even see him. Oh, the baby's on the step here. Look. Oh, yeah. He's got cookies. Come on. [Music] That little fell is still there. Yep. He had figured it out yet. [Music] Come on. He hasn't figured out how to Look at him. You see him trying to get that cookie? Yeah. Oh, watch it. That's what he's doing. Look at that little hand. Yeah. Did he get it? Yeah. My god. He got it. Got it. He got it. You going to get that cookie? There he dragged it through. Oh my goodness. He go band it. He got the whole cookie. Yeah, he got the whole cookie. Isn't it amazing how something so sweet and innocent can give you so much love and entertainment and Yeah. happiness and joy. And there's three babies here. Yes. Y'all are just so sweet and precious. Oh, we're down to two. Baby, [Music] I feel somebody up under there. Here you go. All right. You okay? Who you? I'm just putting this on here. Um I had this mosquito thing on. You're okay over there with mosquitoes? You're not not got any on you, do you? No. Okay, good. I turned that on around seven. Yeah. So you wouldn't get bit tonight. Yeah. Here we go, sweetheart. You guys going to let me throw? Are you smelling my cane? Did they take a cookie? It's hard to maneuver with all this food here. I know. Here. Grab that hot towel. There. Going to make a spot for me to stand. There we go. And my sister's in the hospital. She had a hip replacement. Karen did. And my my other sister Simone, she's up in uh Ontario. She's on dialysis. She's uh she's in a home right now. Her husband died of a brain tumor there a few years back. And Kathleen lost her husband to cancer. My Karen's husband's in the home. Yep. Oh, he's found his way. You got through, huh? He's gotten through so far. Okay, here we go. Try it again. Oh, look. We need a couple of grapes. Come here. You Hey, don't be doing that. You're a bad baby. Huh? What's he doing? I have no idea. Did you get a cookie? No, he's just playing around in the rail. No, he got a cook, Ela. I like how they turn their back the back legs when they go down frontwards, the back legs reversed. Yeah. See that? And they can climb down head first. Yep. Yeah. If he's smart, he would The yard is full down there. I know. All kinds of rac, huh? All kinds of You got one, two, three, four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 up here. And there's six out in the yard. No, seven. Seven. Seven. So, that's 18 raccoons. Yep. I don't see Scooter and her, too. Where are they at? They're probably up in the tree. Oh, yeah. That's that's that's 21. Yeah. I got one of those kings with a four feet on it. Yep. I got you that. I got a new one in there. Got a light on it and siren. Yeah, you do. And that siren is I got that one on Amazon. You got this on Amazon, didn't you? Yeah, I think I did. Huh? I think I did. Yeah. Yeah. Give this to the This thing keeps getting loose. There. Where's that baby? Oh, you found a cookie, did you? You found a cookie with cream in it. There's a bucket tipped over. Yeah, I see that. Huh? That's the one that had the cookies in it. Oh, the cookie bucket. Yeah. What are you doing? What? Come on. You want a hot dog? Did you get out? He got out here. Look. Hey, baby. Bobby. Come on. Bobby, come here. Here, girl. Come here, Bobby. Here. Hey, baby. You got everything you want. The baby went after Bobby. Uh-oh. I'm going to get some marshmallows. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to walk with all the food on. I know. So, Connor did a a disappearing act again. My god, he's dead. What did you say, sweetie? I said he did a disappearing act, but when you were outside there, he was crouched down at the door waiting for you to come back in. Yep. Yeah, bad. I'll throw some of these down on the lawn cuz uh there That's empty. You want me to throw some out in the lawn or you doing it? Yeah, I'm doing it. If you want to throw something, you want to throw on? Yeah. Okay. Here. Excuse me, folks. Here we go. Get this out of the way. You got to throw some up to the garden party. We're in the middle of watching a a series on Netflix. It's called uh Untamed. Untamed. Yeah. It's about out in yinity. Very good. Um what are we on? Episode We're getting ready to start episode four, I think. Yeah. Um, do you want one of these? Look here. Hey, Bobby. We just got finished with the Parammont. Uh, Bobby series. We watched Mob Land and we watched Land Man. Bobby, when we enjoyed both of those a whole lot, you're not paying attention to me. I know. They'll eat all them grapes. Yep. Oh, he he likes some marshmallows. A little fella. He get out from behind the He got out from behind. Yeah. Yeah. He's our foodie. He loves food. Huh? He loves food. And I'm going to have one. The last one. I know you love marshmallows. I got to get the bird feeders. So, I bought some black grapes today and they were not sweet at all. They're a little bit overro. So, I decided to give them to the raccoons all bad. Look at him in the corner with the arsenal. Look what he's doing. He's playing with it. I know. I see him. Look at him. Huh? He's just playing away. Look at it. Yeah. It's just a baby. I know. You love these little babies, huh? You love these babies. They love you, too. Yeah, I know they do. The one that Big Rascal had, she had two of them. And they grew up big like these fells and they used to climb up on me and they were heavy and the that I had one in each knee and they used to lay their heads on my shoulder and Oh, really? Oh, yeah. I used to used to hand feed them. Uh Rasco used to dump them on. I used well I looked after them cuz she used to drop take them up here and leave them go back in the woods. You were the babysitter. Yeah. Jim Stare. They were there. And they came back uh one more summer and then they left. Yeah. Yeah. You coming up? Come on. Come on up. They're all down there eating marshmallows now. Uh, I'll get my myself up here. Uh, I had a few comments were saying I got to take different things from my back and hip, but I see I have cancer. That's these remedies you're giving me aren't going to work. So, huh, I was just saying different people were telling me to take this and take that, you know, for my I know. And I just told them I have I have cancer and uh it's just going to get get worse. So, you're going to get iron next week? Yes, they called today or yesterday. Yeah. I got to do the iron. Did you tell them who else tried to get out of the house today? Charlotte did. Yeah. On you. Yeah. Yeah. I was doing up all of our recycle. Um, and we have to put them in blue bags here. They don't have the cans like they do in the States for recycling. And I had five blue bags. Yeah. And um I was going in and out of the door and the last time I was going out here, she come running down and she tried to bolt out the door and I blocked her. Look there. Look at this little guy. He's tiny. It looks like Tina did a couple years ago. Yeah. Remember how tiny Tina was? Yeah. Tina was u she did a bitty thing. She was one of uh Krabby's babies. I thought I thought she belonged to uh Scooter. No, that was Minnie. Minnie. Oh, yeah. Tina was one of Krabby's babies. Yeah. And we don't know what ever happened to her. She just didn't come back last year. She didn't come back. Well, she was here 3 4 years. Yeah, she was a wicked little thing. Oh, mean. She loved her dry food. She didn't like the hot dogs or the cookies. She only wanted dry food and it was hers and nobody else could come near her. Well, but we don't know what made her so selfish. And And again, we have four buckets of water. Yep. We got four buckets. They got fruit and they got their Cheerios. My grandchildren says they like Honey Cheerios. I said, "Yeah, they do. Same thing I eat." Oh, this is They'll clean all these up. Oh, yeah. And this will be gone by the time I go to bed. Yeah. Which is probably in the next 30 minutes. So, well, everybody's happy. We love our babies. Yeah. Look, this one right up against my mama. Well, I'm glad they're eating. Yeah. In case the bear comes around since it's garbage night. He hasn't uh He had been here in a couple weeks. No. So, according to Don, he's due to come back, is he? Yeah. You ready to go in? Yeah, I'll go in. I ran I ran him out with the broom, so you ought to be safe going in. Yeah. Okay. It's getting that getting that right leg in there. I'm all right now. Okay. Good night, everybody. Y'all be safe. Yeah. Takes a while. It takes me a while to get dressed. I know. Yeah. You get I find it hard getting my gym pants on. There's the bed fella. Not me. Connor, were you bad today? He said, he said no. No. We said no. You're mine. Not me. Hey, but when he came back in the house, wasn't he sad? I mean, he he wanted to apologize to me. Yeah. He wanted to He got up on my chest and he was like, "I'm sorry, mama. Now give me a treat. Now give me a treat." But we checked them all over for uh tick ticks and fleas. And now he's all right. It was just like, "Huh? He worries me." Yeah. He knows he worries me. Don't you? Yes. Yes. You know you worry me. Connor cat. Connor kitty. He's going to eat some bed lunch before I go to bed. Where's your other cat? Charlotte. I don't know where Charlotte went. Charlotte. She might be in the She ran when I got after him with the broom. Oh, okay. That's Well, she's under the Yeah. So, we're supposed to get up over 30 um tomorrow. Well, for the next seven days. It's going down to 13, isn't it? Tonight. No, isn't it? No, it did last night. Oh, yeah. It was cold last night. Yeah, it's going to be warm tonight. Um so that if y'all don't This one people in the States, we're supposed to get up close to 90 for the next eight days. See, they're late. This is off my cane. Oh lord. You going to do the siren or Yeah. Well, I couldn't do it the other day cuz it scared the raccoons. The window shut. No. No. Oh. Anyway, you push the button here. That's if you fall down. E. You push the button here and that's what it sounds like. Oh, the window is shut. Yeah. That's what it sounds like. And it's got a side handle on it for uh little side handle that flips down for to help you get up off the couch and stuff. Yeah. It just folds up there and then it all folds up and the strap wraps around and holds it in place. So you stick it in a glove box or whatever. Then that's my I get around on this thing too in the house. It's a my little walker. So [Music] anyway, they must they hear that? No. Well, they're still out there. There's Bobby's there and the baby. Connor, did you finish your uh supper? Was it good? Was it? Yeah. You ate some of my supper, too. We had the hamburger helper with the We added mushrooms to it. All right, I'll get my shoes off. We'll say good night then, eh? Good night then. See you later. Byebye. Bye.