Wednesday at the raccoon diner with a decent crowd

James Blackwood
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I am a retired RCMP Officer living in a rural setting in Nova Scotia, Canada. I spend my time enjoying nature and feeding my furry friends, the raccoons. I also feed the deer in the winter months and many varieties of birds. I have two rescue cats named Connor and Charlotte.
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There's the lolly.
He just had steak and gravy.
Don't want to go out there.
>> Look at them big fellas.
>> That's Bobby.
>> Huh?
>> That's Bobby. There's a couple. There's
a couple down on the
>> You want hot dogs, don't you?
>> There's some on the uh grind down there.
>> That's Burby.
>> What was it?
>> Burby right there on the top step.
>> This is Peaches.
That's Elsa.
>> Not that little fella there.
>> That's Elsa.
>> No, that's a little guy. This fella
coming toward you.
>> Is that you, little bit?
>> That's a little bit.
>> Look real good. Hang on, Barbie.
>> There's some more hot dogs, baby girl.
That's a little bit. He's half their
size,
but he's fat.
They can hardly get up and down.
>> There's Elsa. Hey, Elsa.
>> Yeah, they can hardly get up and down
the stairs.
>> Hey, Elsa. Hey, Woody. I see you out in
the yard. Hang on.
>> Oh, he's standing up down there, huh?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Here you go, Furby.
>> Come on, Woody.
Oh, you going to You threw something
down for him.
>> Yeah. Well, the steps are crowded.
>> Yeah.
>> You can't get up.
>> No.
>> Want a cookie?
>> Come on. Get a cookie.
Get a cookie. Hey, Bobby.
>> There's Bobby with no tail.
>> Here, Elsa.
There you go,
Furby.
Look how big Furby is. She's
>> I know.
I see the hairs start starting to grow
over their back feet and that
>> Yep.
>> Yeah.
>> Did you get enough for supper?
>> Oh god. Yes. I don't
>> We had beef chips and gravy and mashed
potatoes.
>> Yeah. I don't eat that much.
>> Well, you ate quite a bit tonight.
>> Yeah.
>> Hey, Peaches. Come here, baby girl.
Come here. Come here. Come on. You going
to stand up? Here you go, baby.
Good girl.
Y'all coming?
>> Y'all coming up?
>> And Connor was mean to
>> here, Elsa.
>> Charlotte
chased her from the kitchen.
>> Here, Elsa. There you go.
>> Peaches. Well, running down the stairs.
Oh, we had aurora borealis last night
and we missed it.
>> Yeah.
>> And it's supposed to come tonight.
Now, we don't know if we're going to
have cloudy skies or not.
>> And now we're supposed to get snow by in
the morning. Not a whole lot, but enough
to say
>> there was a little snow this morning,
wasn't there?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, there was.
>> And the water was froze cuz it was
>> No, it wasn't froze,
>> wasn't it? It was uh
>> it all this was still unfroze and so was
the hose. Nothing was frozen.
>> It was uh down to 30 last night.
>> It must not have stayed there very long
because nothing was froze out here.
>> Was I checked the temperature at 6:00
and it was 30 and minus one hours.
>> Yeah.
>> Must not escape.
>> Below freezing.
>> Hello Elsa.
>> Yeah. There you go.
Here you go, Peaches.
>> What's this coming up and eating and
running back down for?
>> They want to be ready to go in case
there's something coming.
>> Yeah, he's
>> Well, we know that there's still a bear.
>> Oh, yeah. We uh
>> we saw one the night we went to get your
vaccine flu.
>> Yeah, he was going across the road. Big
boy, too.
>> Ran right out in front of you.
>> Uh-oh.
Yeah, there's one down there standing
up.
>> Okay, here we go.
Here you go, Elsa.
>> Yep. Nope. It's Furby. It's not Elsa.
Come here, Furby. Hot dogs.
Everybody's got a different taste for
something. Scooter's already been here
knocking on the door, wasn't she?
>> Yeah, he was first one here.
I already been here climbing the tree
and ate and climbed the tree. There's
three down there in the yard.
>> Yeah, I see them there. They're running
back and forth.
>> You want a cookie?
>> He wants a cookie.
Oh, he's taking it to the water.
>> Mhm.
>> You know that water's got to be cold.
>> Oh, well, that's just thinking that.
>> And that's a baby B. Yes. That's a
sweetheart.
She knows she's loved. Look at Furby
grabbing two.
>> Huh?
>> She grabbed two hot dogs.
Are you popping cookies? Are you popping
cookies?
>> Yes.
Flipping them over to see if there's any
cream in them.
>> You want another one, Peaches? Here you
go, baby girl.
>> You want one?
>> They're pretty tame, aren't they?
>> And a little bit. Huh?
>> Come here.
>> Yeah.
>> Here you go, Bobby. Come here, baby
girl.
>> They're really tame around us. Not with
strangers, though.
>> Here, Furby. Mama's coming. Here you go,
baby girl.
>> They're not a fan of strangers.
>> No,
she's huge.
Did you eat another one? You're going to
have to start eating the wafers now.
Yes, you are.
>> Reason I know the water wasn't frozen, I
sprayed everything off this morning.
>> Yeah.
All the cream from the cookies.
Yeah. Y'all had a lot of cookies last
night, didn't you?
Want another one? One more.
Y'all are so sweet.
>> Look how big Bobby is.
>> I know.
>> Huh?
>> And I was so worried about her in the
summer cuz she was so thin.
Her
babies were draining her.
>> Yeah.
>> Yes. Your babies were draining you,
weren't they?
>> That's Bobby.
>> I had seen Lucy lately. She'll probably
come later.
>> She's always in that corner.
>> Yep. You want some more, Furby? Hang on,
baby girl. Here you go.
>> What do you think, Bobby?
>> Another one. You want another cookie?
>> Beautiful eyes.
>> Yeah.
Oh, they're some tame though, aren't
they?
>> Yeah.
>> Very friendly.
They don't mind us, though. They uh
>> Come here, Elsa.
>> They just We're just like one of the
gang here.
>> Elsa.
Elsa.
>> Oh, she's going to eat a wafer.
>> Elsa was the name of the lion in Born
Pre, the movie.
Elsa was also one of my grandchildren's
favorite character in the movie Frozen.
>> Oh,
>> she sings Let It Go. And that little one
can go around the house just holding her
arms up going, "Let it go. Let it go."
>> Yeah.
Ready for another one?
There you go.
>> He looks funny without a tail, doesn't
he?
>> I know.
>> Huh?
Yeah. Hang on.
>> And it's not cut off or nothing. He was
like that since he was little.
>> Yeah.
>> Peaches. You've gained some weight, too.
>> Well, Furby's gone. She's hitting the
road.
She's going to the house.
>> See how they go down the stairs?
>> They waddle.
>> They waddle, don't they?
>> Yeah. Y'all want some more out there in
the yard?
There you go.
Yeah,
>> that old nose boy. They they can find
it.
>> You want one more? You hear the road?
>> I'm going to go in cuz I'm froze. Do
>> you hear the road? Okay, I'll talk to
Connor.
>> Yeah. And I I find it hard to stay in
for very long.
>> We're almost out of food anyway.
>> Uh oh, they they were up here at the
clock. This thing. Look at them.
>> Oh, they had your camera stand knocked
over this morning.
>> Oh, did they?
>> Yeah.
I said, I bet somebody got scared then.
>> All right.
>> 20. Wait, no.
>> Fahrenheit's on the outside, isn't it?
>> Yeah. All right, you guys. Y'all got
plenty of dry food.
>> It's uh 30.
>> Yeah.
>> And uh
>> Yeah, it's just going just below zero
here now. No,
>> no wonder I'm cold.
>> I'm behind you.
>> Oh, are you all right?
>> No wonder I'm cold.
>> Yeah. Here.
>> In.
>> Yeah. Just having a hard time getting my
leg up. Oh, now I can't see. My glasses
fogged up.
>> There's the little boy.
>> Yeah, I was I had I hit his face there
the the first of it.
He had beef tips and gravy, too.
>> Yeah. He's half asleep.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. And he near drove me nuts all
night jumping on me.
>> Did he?
>> Yes. I couldn't get no sleep.
He He's He didn't settle down. Did he
had breakfast this morning?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. I'll get this off now.
So
anyway,
here I am. My glasses are fogged up.
>> Yep.
>> Flip this around here. There we go.
Anyway, I'll give them a wipe after.
So here I am
right whisperer.
>> So did anybody else in the channel have
uh northern lights last night? I think
they said on the news they were shining
all the way down to Texas.
>> Yeah.
>> Florida and Yeah. And Georgia had
>> I know they had them in Atlanta.
>> Yeah.
>> But I I'm going to have a look tonight
and see if it's You can see it from on
the deck.
>> It said from 8 to 11 here.
>> Yeah.
>> I'll go say hi to her.
>> Okay.
She's curled up in my bed.
>> She's curled up in the bed.
Yes, she is.
She was sleeping. She likes sleeping up
there.
Those Boston Bruins lamp. I got them at
uh Sports Fanatic out in Halifax and I
got
matching ones. There's the other one
there.
There's NHL on one side and Boston on
the other.
Right, girl.
What? I thought you were laying down.
Huh? I thought you were laying down.
She wants attention all the time now.
Like she's up on the She'll get up on
your uh
half on the half on your legs and half
on the
arm of the chair,
but if you go to pick her up, she takes
off out in the kitchen. She doesn't want
to be picked up.
No, she'll be
she'll be here 11 years. uh April 22nd
and Connor was here 11 years this past
August.
What are you doing? Huh? What are you
doing? You want your back rubbed?
Do you? You want your back rubbed? You
do?
How's that?
Oh, they got the Christmas tree all
ready to go to Boston.
and the mayor of Boston, the beautiful
Asian girl, she's the the mayor, and she
they gave her the power saw and put the
suit on her. She was helping cutting it
down. It was 54 55 ft high.
So, uh it's they're loading it on the
truck as we speak and it's heading for
Boston and we give them a tree every
year for over 80 years now. And because
Boston when we had the Halifax explosion
in uh I think it was 1918
and uh two ships collided in the harbor
and uh it took out most of the city and
thousands of people were killed. And
anyway, Boston sent trade loads of train
loads of doctors and nurses
to help up here. And uh and so that was
our way of repaying them every year.
So, I just hope they don't stop it at
the border,
you know, with all the pollution that's
going on,
you know, like the tree is free and
they're they're paying for it to be
transported down there and
I just hope it we ain't never had any
trouble before for 80 years getting it
over the border, but you never know.
This year it's different.
What are you doing? Huh? What?
I can't see them putting a tarp on it
cuz it's a gift.
Yeah.
Right, Charlotte.
We got a big tree here. We cut down,
send down. Oh, it's got to be over 50
ft.
We got two of them side by side.
Oh,
>> we got cards.
>> Huh?
>> We have cards.
>> Where are you at?
>> In here.
>> Yeah.
>> What' you say?
>> We have cards.
>> Cards.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> So,
>> yeah, they come in the mail.
>> Yep. So, this one is from
Patty Slack out in California. She sends
us stuff all the time. It's a
Thanksgiving one.
>> Okay.
>> Yep. She's so sweet. We really do
appreciate all of your support, Patty.
>> Yeah,
>> thank you very much. Okay, here's Look
at that.
>> Sylvie
just
>> turkey. I didn't see a turkey. That's
more like Connor. He eats like that.
>> Yeah, he's not fat, though.
>> But he eats.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Engine Jim. Oh, from Liz Roth and Hugh.
And it says, "No, that's not Connor."
>> That's funny. Yeah, cuz I just said
that.
>> Yep. And then uh this one is from
Denise. And Denise, I'm sorry if I hash
your name up. Scuzza.
And she is in
North Planefield, New Jersey. And she
sent us an anniversary card.
>> That's great.
>> Ain't that sweet?
>> Yeah. There's no mail today.
>> Nope. No mail today.
>> No.
>> So, thanks everybody for everything. We
really do appreciate your support.
>> Yeah. And the raccoons appreciate it,
too.
>> Oh, yeah. Yep. They sure do.
>> Yeah.
>> So, I guess that's it,
>> huh?
>> I guess that's it.
>> Yeah. All right. I'm going to sign it
off then.
>> Okay. Thank you.
>> See you later.
>> Have a good night.
>> Bye-bye.
>> Bye-bye.
