Miscellaneous

When I posted last week about all of the raccoons that have been invading our yard, I’m sure you thought “oh, what’s one or two little raccoons.”   Yeah … right. This was the view outside our patio doors tonight … the picture isn’t too good (I wasn’t quite fast enough), but there are five.  FIVE…

Wildlife in Our Yard

Since we’ve moved in, we’ve seen a lot of wildlife in our yard … and even what we haven’t seen, we’ve known has been there while we’re sleeping. We wake up in the morning to find the cat’s food bowl broken, flowers dug out of the pots on the deck, pool toys ruptured, or the…

Baby Owl by the Pool

A couple of nights ago, we came home from dinner and found this baby owl hanging out by the pool! He seemed a little afraid at first, but got used to us being around pretty quickly. We tried to shoo him out of the fenced in area around the pool since we weren’t sure he…

There was an article in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago about our local Habitat for Humanity ReStore location. That was the first we’d heard that there was anything like it in our area and we were excited to walk through the store/warehouse for the first time yesterday. They had a really broad variety…

The Bat Invasion

Since moving in to our new house, we’ve had a couple of encounters with various creatures wanting to enjoy our home with us (see post: Things That Go “Bump” in the Night). The week before Christmas, the saga continued when we found a bat swooping around in the stair well while we were getting ready…

When moving into a different home, there’s always a new set of noises to get used to. The first couple of nights we stayed in this house, I don’t think we would have slept at all had we not been so exhausted from moving. Since then, though, we’ve gotten more accustomed to the sounds that…