Wednesday 29 Oct 25 Raccoon Diner

James Blackwood
141 followers
Oct 30, 2025
ONLY FIVE RACCOONS TONIGHT THE COLD IS AFFECTING THEM TONIGHT AND SLOWING THEM DOWN FROM GETTING AROUNG
Uh,
I'm not going to be able to get out
there cuz I can get out and hold the
camera, but
not going to be able to get to the
bench. I could hardly walk.
Oh, there's only one out there. Oh, he
just showed up.
You're waiting for me to go out so you
can jump out, aren't you?
Huh?
[Music]
Cookies.
>> That's the little fella.
>> Yeah, we need cookies.
>> Huh?
>> Cookies.
>> Oh. Oh,
>> cookies.
>> Cookies.
Where is the baby?
>> Right here. Cookies.
>> Oh, no. The other baby.
>> I don't know.
>> Oh, it's just the one.
>> Mhm.
>> There's still hammering next door.
>> No.
>> Can you grab the cookies? Huh? Yeah.
Right here.
The uh
>> You going to leave me?
>> And Donnie got the
We got the AC out of the window.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Cookie.
>> Cookies.
Daddy's got cookies.
I got it.
>> Got it. Okay.
>> I'm all crippled up.
>> He was on the couch.
>> Yeah.
>> And you're stiff now.
>> Yeah.
And I got my new walker today.
>> Yeah. The one for the car.
>> Yeah. The one for the car. And it folds
up into a little
square.
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah. So it doesn't take up all your
trunk.
It's a nice one though.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Well, we had Walmart came through
where Amazon couldn't.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, you made it.
>> You made me cross when you said that.
But they sent me another a kn another
kneeling one.
I was going to throw it right through
the window.
>> It was funny.
>> No, it wasn't. I was
>> opened up the box and I said, "Oh, no.
They've sent you another knee scooter."
And the look on your face.
>> Oh, I was mad. Here, here's somebody
coming.
>> All the color came out of your face.
Hey, everybody. Come on.
Come on, you guys.
>> They heard the cookies.
>> You hear the cookies?
>> You hear the cookies?
>> You hear the cookies? Go get a cookie.
>> Come on.
>> There's somebody else down there in the
yard.
>> Come on.
>> They have to sit at the top of the
stairs.
>> Yep.
>> Yeah.
>> They keep looking over that way. I'm
wondering if that's the way that the
bear comes in.
>> I don't know. Oh, and Donnie got a
weasel in his
>> Not a weasel.
>> Oh, no. A mink.
>> A mink.
>> Yeah, it was a mink that he caught in a
trap.
>> I've never I had never seen a mink in my
entire
>> Well, I seen them, but not not in the
wild.
>> It It killed a whole bunch of his
chickens.
>> Killed five of them.
>> Five of them.
And it was vicious.
>> Oh my goodness. He tra He put it in a
live trap.
>> Yeah.
>> Um and he caught it.
>> He took it where he took it five or six
miles down the road and
>> let it go.
>> Let it go.
Hope you don't. There's no
>> Are you going to come up?
>> Come on.
>> Are you coming?
>> Come on up.
>> Nobody's going to hurt you. Here comes
Bandit. I see the white face.
>> Come on.
>> Come on.
>> Come on, Bandit.
Come on, little girl.
>> You going to catch that cookie?
>> Come on.
>> You going to catch it?
>> Huh? You going to catch it?
>> Come on, baby.
>> Oh, there's there's bandit coming there
now.
>> Yep. She's coming up the trail. Come on,
Woody.
>> And Woody,
>> are you going to stand out there in the
yard? She's not going to come up.
>> I wish you would stop guarding the door.
Hey, Bandit.
>> There she is.
>> Hello.
>> Here's my little girl with the white
face.
Bandit.
>> Girl,
>> look.
>> Let her eat.
>> What you doing?
>> Come on.
>> Come on. So anyway, Donnie come over and
took away the air conditioner and he we
give it to him.
>> Yep. And Laura said, "Angie, you're
following us."
>> He's getting
>> She sent me a message.
>> He's getting putting it in their bedroom
cuz that thing they got is out in the
living room.
>> Yeah.
>> And they don't get the cold air.
Oh, she's way down now.
She's chasing that cookie down on the
ground.
There's another one coming. Oh, there's
more coming.
>> Where?
Where?
>> There's another one just past Bandit.
And there's one there behind you.
>> Come on.
>> Huh?
>> Woody behind me.
>> That's Woody. Is it?
>> Yeah.
>> Well, there's another one there.
>> Come on.
>> We got five all together.
>> Be nice there.
>> They're well fed, these fellas.
Come on. So, we just watched the repair
shop on the road,
>> huh?
>> Pretty good.
>> What?
>> The repair shop on the road.
>> You went to sleep.
>> Yeah, I know. You went to sleep. I heard
you snore.
>> Yeah, I went to sleep.
>> Hello.
>> Yeah.
>> Hi, buddy. That's another baby.
>> Where? Oh, the babies. And there's a
baby on the steps.
>> That big fat thing.
>> Yeah. Well, they're not they're only 6
months old, but I mean,
>> we've done well.
>> He's done. Yeah, but the the other
fellow was he was he was long time
growing.
>> These right here, they're doing good.
>> He's full grown now.
>> Hello. Up.
>> Come on up.
>> Come on.
You want another one? Baby Kabi, it's
just a baby.
>> There's what? Three down there.
>> Come on.
>> All right, Bandit. I'm going to give you
and Woody some hot dogs.
>> They're all
having a garden party.
>> There's just two of them.
The babies won't let them come up.
>> Well, there's no room. Their big fat
bellies in the way.
>> I know.
>> See, we were born in the spring.
I think this one was born in
June.
Yes, I do.
You're the youngest of them. B a little
bit.
But your mama's tiny.
>> It's chilly out, isn't it?
>> Yeah, it is. Your mommy is tiny. Hhu.
Don't you be ugly.
Ain't that right? That's right.
>> Yes. Get You're going to be like that.
>> Goodness.
>> They're all going down the They're all
going down in the ground.
>> There's some more. Right there, baby.
They're right there.
Right here. There you go. Right there.
Right there.
There you go. Nope. I got to watch the
steps.
Oh, you're going home, too.
>> Yeah. Where's
>> your mama? Is she already gone to bed?
>> Some waddle on them, isn't it?
>> Yeah, their mama might have gone. His
mama might have already gone to bed for
the winter.
for a little while. She's not going to
bed for good yet. They won't do that
till it gets below freezing.
At least that's what you told me.
And it's supposed to get below freezing
next week.
>> Come on up.
>> Want some hot dogs?
Hot dog.
So quiet out here, isn't it?
>> Yeah, it's quiet.
>> The neighbor's not hammering tonight.
>> No.
Hammer him.
[Laughter]
>> There you go.
>> Yeah, they're moving slow. Have you
noticed?
>> Yeah. Well, it's the cold. Yeah,
>> that may be why.
>> Yeah. Um, yeah, it's almost down to zero
there.
>> Yeah,
>> it's cool.
>> Yeah,
>> electric blanket night.
>> Well, you've been doing electric blanket
for a couple months.
>> Oh, god. I've had the blanket on for a
few months.
I get that right foot in.
Look at you.
Look at you. Yeah. Big yawns. What are
you tired for? You slept all day,
huh?
You slept all day. Yes, you did. We get
them claws in
time to get them claws in. There's the
other girl.
>> There she is.
Charlotte.
Yeah, there's the
walker. I use in the house.
>> You going to show them the new one?
>> Yeah, I'm going to do that now.
>> Oh, he's eating her food.
>> Piglet.
Oh dear.
>> I got to turn on the blanket, too.
Yes. Could turn the blanket on.
Here's the new one.
And it's got I got to put air in the
tires. The tires are flat. It's got
pneumatic tires.
So anyway, you push a couple of buttons
and it all it all folds up and the uh
there's a button here that raises and
lower the handles.
And this bag here that's on the front,
it comes off
and uh there's a strap that goes around
your shoulder if you want to carry it in
the store with you or then you just put
it on there afterwards. Anyway, I got to
get my pump out and
Pump some air into it.
What are you doing up here? Huh? You
waiting for me to turn the blanket on?
Are you?
You want the blanket on, do you? Oh,
look at somebody else's up here, too.
He doesn't like her being here.
You don't like that, do you? No,
you don't like that.
No, you you have to be feted.
Yeah.
Don't you, Connor?
You spoiled spoiled little rat. Yes, you
were.
Connor cat.
So anyway,
my big fancy crucifix
and uh Liz and Susie were asked me about
the the picture they sent me and I this
is where I have it in my bedroom of
Seattle.
Oh,
this Marishon sweater. And I have I also
had the one uh
the uh what do you call it? The
his Florida sweater too with the 63 on
it and his name.
Anyway,
and here I am.
And I got the this is I got this at
Build-A-Bear
in Halifax.
And I picked out the out pitch port. And
somebody sent me uh one. I have it
sitting there.
He's sitting down there. He's
>> hard today.
He He's sitting down there. He's got a
Bruins outfit on. That was sent to me
from uh my friends in the States. You
got another card?
>> Yeah.
>> All right.
Where'd that come from?
>> This is from Patty Slack in Whittier,
California.
>> Who?
>> Patty Slack. She sends us cards all the
time. Okay.
>> In Woodier, California, she sent us a
Halloween one.
>> Oh, isn't that nice?
>> And she's so sweet. So, she addressed it
to Yumi, the raccoons, and the cats.
>> What she say on there?
>> Um, she's talking about she's going to
the dentist and the eye doctor, and
she's putting out some rat traps up
under her house also.
>> Yeah.
>> So, she's been around. She already heard
about it. She watches us every day. We
can't uh put rat traps out there because
of the squirrels.
>> No.
My goodness gracious mercy. That's so
Oh me. Oh my.
Okay, that's it.
I can't help it.
>> Mercy.
Mercy.
>> Anyway,
>> good night everybody. We'll see you see
you later.
>> Mercy.
>> Bye-bye.
