Thursday Five Raccoons

Okay, we got her running. I had a little trouble with the camera. I'll be glad when the new one gets here. There's my girl. There's my little girl. Oh, she's coming over to me. Are you coming over to your daddy? Are you? Are you coming over to daddy? You are? Oh my. Oh, it's warm out. Yeah. Yeah, I gotta clean my lens here. Yeah. Yeah. See, it came out from a cold house and it steamed up a little bit. There we go. Might have to do it again. What do you think, little girl? Huh? You a good girl. We only got two. It was 90 degrees out here and it was 70 in the house with that new system. Here, come on. Yeah, the hot dogs are nice and cold. So what are you doing? Connor. Connor cat. And I was talking to Angie. She's checked into a motel in a hotel in Maine. So she'll be here tomorrow night around seven or eight. So look at this. All sitting out. This is, yeah, this is steaming up. Yeah. Cause I came in from, she's all air conditioned in there. That's why. Yeah. Give her another swipe. Should have brought a There. How's that? You a good girl. Are you? Are you a good girl? Yeah. So I got some pictures of the two babies last night. Uh, they came late and they were up on the, uh, the stoop. They were You ready? There you go. I don't know if we're going to have many tonight or not. She's warm out. Look at the way she's sitting. She's all spread out there. Yeah. I don't know if you had any babies or not. Did you? Did you have any babies? Huh? Yeah. He says they're good dad. You're ready for another one? Okay. There you go. Yeah. And, uh, one of my, uh, moderators, her father died. Uh, I gave her my condolences. I just say condolences again to you, Jill. And she's done a wonderful job with my site. Her and Irene. Yeah. So I'm glad I didn't have to cut grass today. I was going to do some whippersnapping, but I stepped out. The heat hit me boy. And just when I was doing the water too. Yeah. Yeah. You ready for another one? See how gentle they are. But you see how she sticks close to me. Oh, we got another one coming. She won't let them near me. Yeah. You go get that one. There you go. There you go. They hear me talking from the woods. What a good girl. What a pretty face. And I was saying to, uh, Angie, she doesn't have white tips in her ears. We never noticed that. See how they all have them. Yeah. You got white tips in your ears. Here you go. It's all right. Don't be ground. I get food for you here. There you go. There you go. Yeah. Look at that little face. Look at that little face. Huh? Yeah. Look at you. You ready? Come on here. Do you hear somebody here? You ready for another one? Here you go. You want another one? Okay. Come get it. They're good size, aren't they? Yeah. They're good size. So I just have to do his, uh, litter box and I'm all done for the night. I got hers down and put her fresh food down for her. Oh, how you doing girl? You want another hot dog? Here. There was another one down there coming. Now he's coming. Gonna try it. Don't be mean now. Let them up here. You ready? Here. I'll throw one at you. There you go. Go get it. There. So we had four here now. You're going to have some dry food. You're going to go to the steps. Here. You're waiting for cookies. He's waiting for cookies. Aren't you? You want a cookie? Do you? You want a cookie? I got this. I guess it's time for the cookies. I got them right there ready. And last night I put some Oreos out because, uh, she was out here again at one o'clock. So I'm up late with these fellas. Yeah. There. You can get that. You a good boy? Are you? Isn't that great? Here. You want a cookie, don't you? You want a hot dog? Oh, you're, you had babies. Yes, you did. You had babies. Yeah. You want another hot dog? Do you want one? We've got five here now. Population's growing. Yeah. I'll go get some cookies out. Some of them are ready for the cookies. I know she is. Okay. You going to let me buy? I got to get cookies. Okay. Good boy. Now where's he at? Door sticking from the heat. Well, ain't you be proud of me. Um, here, look, I got cookies here. I got cookies for you. She was looking at the hot dogs. Aren't you? What do you want? Don't know cookie. Yeah. You want a cookie? You want one? Here you go. Have a cookie. All you're doing is eating the cream out of them. You want a cookie here? Go get it. There you go. Yeah. I had to put, get the cookie. Here you go. Thank you, dad. And he's running down the stairs. All you're doing is licking the cream. Huh? That's all you're doing. Bandit. Yeah. Not hard to, to pick her out. There. I just killed a mosquito. Here. That's why I got the, I got my hood up over my coat and my hat and everything. I didn't find the T cells yet. I didn't look for them either. I don't know. We'll find them tomorrow. I'll light her up out here. I was talking to my daughter today for a little bit. My, my granddaughter has been busy. So I haven't talked to her for a couple of days. It won't be long. We'll be over there. Well, what are you going to do? Eating all the cream? You don't eat the cookies, do you? She's her fill of hot dogs. There's why the water gets all gummy. See, and I gotta, I change it. Especially that one. Do you want another one? Here you go. Oh, you dropped it. You want another one? I'm gonna throw some hot dogs over the, see if you want a hot dog. No? Wants a cookie. You want a cookie, don't you? Yeah. You want another cookie? Here. You hear something? I'll throw some of these hot dogs over the side. You want another cookie? Here. Oh, no, you want another one. Look at, look at the cookie shells, huh? And you're just as bad. You got the water full of them, haven't you? Yeah. I'll have to clean them. I'd feel rain. Huh. Well, look, look, watching me. We're supposed to get the heavy thunder and lightning tonight. At 12 o'clock. Yeah. It doesn't seem to bother these fellas. Here. There you go. It's raining. What's going on here? What's going on there? Cars are driving right slow with the four-wheel, four-wheel flashers on. I hope they're not towing each other. It's illegal to do that now. Yeah. It startled them though. I'm gonna throw some hot dogs down to the, to the crew down here. You want some hot dogs? Do you? You want some hot dogs? Well, go get them. Come on. It's raining out. Something's spoken and they're all running coming back and they're all off the deck here now. I just dump everything on the deck and let them go at it. I gotta top up the, uh, the dry food too. Somebody was, uh, had a question there for somebody what the best food was. Cat food or, um, or dog food. Dog food is better because the raccoons are so much bit more bigger than a cat and they need, uh, they need the extra nutrition that's in it. The cat food is no good for them. Anyway, they survived on it year after year. So when I first started, uh, my late wife, she only gave them peanut butter sandwiches and that's all they got. And it was after she passed away, I started adding hot dogs and, and a hamburger helper and anything else and cookies. And so look at her up there, Charlotte. She watches them. There's nothing to watch here now. No, I'm just going to dump these out there and they can eat them up. And that bucket, I got to change the water on that. That's filthy. The other ones are all right. There, I would say that's it. I was lucky to even have that many. There's a dune bug there. God, that door's hard to open. Sticking because of the, you coming up? It's sticking because, oh, there's a sweat. Yeah. Now it's hot out. Oh, it's nice in here. Nice and cool in here. Yeah. Isn't that Charlotte? I just got to do his poop bucket and then I'm done. It's what? 69 here. Yeah. 69. And it's a 10 after 12 after 10. And what is it outside? 74. I think it's higher than that. I'll ask Google. Who's on my bed? Who's on my bed? You. I don't think we're going to need the heat on the hot water blanket or the hot blanket on tonight. Hey, Google. Temperature. In Eureka, it's currently 23 degrees. 23 degrees. Hey, Google. What's the temperature in Fahrenheit? The current temperature in Eureka is 73 degrees Fahrenheit. 73. So her thermometer was right on. What are you doing over there in my bed? What are you doing in my bed? Huh? Conner cat. You're just a boy. Mama's home tomorrow night. He said I had you. Yeah. Charlotte's going to miss her. He hangs out with me all the time. So, but the big misser is going to be Sylvie downstairs. Yeah. She's going to go nuts. And you'll miss her, won't you, Charlotte? Huh? You know, you spoke to me. Charlotte, did you speak? All right. Anyway, she's in the hotel now and she's going to give me a call after she gets settled in. All right, people, I'm going to go. Oh, they're back again. Oh, we got four, five. Yeah, something spooked them. Anyway, now they're all running down the stairs again, heading for the woods. What are you doing? Huh? I got to change that water. Yes, I do. I had more dry food later on once I see it going down. Anyway, Bandit left one home. I noticed she had big bulbs on her, so she must have had babies. But a lot of the babies aren't here yet. Everybody's running again. Run, run, run. Yeah, they're all heading for the woods. Those two are still eating. That's a little bit there. The skin into the tail. They're beautiful animals. Yeah, people give them a bad rap, you know. And I mean, they lost a lot of their habitats, especially down here. Clear cut both sides of the road down the road further. And I mean clear cut. They wiped it right out. And so a lot of them lost their homes and they ended up here. But we don't mind. The more the merrier. Oh, we got another one coming. Oh, we just have another one coming. One, two, three, four, five. We'll pack up to five. And there's one down on the ground. That's six. All right, I'm going to say goodnight and go down to that litter box. And I'm going to sit back and relax. Anyway, notice this was piled high of cookies. And we got more here. And they got Cheerios. There's more there. And plus she she sent two more bags out. All right. What a good girl. What a good girl. Anyway, people, goodnight and see you tomorrow.