02 Friday May 2025
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caught this activity on the door cam this morning… quite lucky because it only saves things for three hours…
not very clear, but the rings on the tail tell the story…
it was just a few days ago that I had a conversation with someone and we were discussing the good news that the raccoons hadn’t been around, sigh…
rather happy that the fish haven’t made it outside yet;-)…
24 Sunday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, light, moments, motion sensor, nature, pond, raccoons, solar, stormed, Technology, weather, widow
ordered some solar motion sensor lights for the garden last Wednesday…
wasn’t sure if they would work, but was hopeful they would frighten the raccoons away…
they arrived on Monday and were easy to install… one went at the edge of the bridge and the other is set on the top of the deck…
was so excited that night when they worked… happily it had been sunny all day…
the next night it stormed and they were on most of the time as the wind was blowing all the leaves and floating plants around when the rain wasn’t pouring down…
will see how they work when the raccoons stop by again…
06 Wednesday Oct 2021
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at 1:24 this morning I looked out the window after hearing some bells ringing…
I have this cute little frog that holds these bells and when it rains they make lovely sounds…
it wasn’t raining which is what drew my attention…
I spotted two raccoons walking along the edge of the bathtub pond area…
too dark for pictures and I scared them off by banging on the window…
this likely explains the bent over bird feeder from the other day…
good news is that the fish appear to be safe…
29 Monday Aug 2016
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this morning I discovered a squirrel on the feeder in the front yard… I was surprised because I didn’t think they could get to it…
but apparently they can jump rather high… certainly explains why this feeder seems to be empty all the time…
over the last few days I’ve come across a few cuties…
this bunny was in the neighbour’s yard and posed nicely for the picture…
very happy with this picture of a couple of geese as they were circling for a landing at the Duck Pond…
and this is my absolute favourite… when I got back from my doctor’s appointment on Friday morning, the boys and I headed out the front door to walk to the Assiniboine Hotel for breakfast…looked to the right as we stepped outside and spotted this hawk sitting on the side of the neighbour’s truck…
held onto my youngest grandson and everyone stood still and whispered while I got out my camera and took a few pictures… the boys had just been telling me about the purple finches they have spotted at their house… makes me happy to know they are starting to look around and notice…
thinking that maybe the raccoons have been over… that bird feeder on the ground was beside the gray planter last night, lol…
fun to enjoy the special moments when the creatures turn up…
27 Monday Jul 2015
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the pond tonight… waterfall is not running, not sure why, but my son-in-law is coming tomorrow morning to see if he can figure it out…
bad start to the day… looked outside first thing to see that the waterfall wasn’t running and the water was very low… ran out to turn the hose on… the gazing ball was in a strange place and the bubbler was at an odd angle…
and then I spotted the fish carcasses all over the deck and the bridge…
I think a family of raccoons must have come by after the storm last night and had a sushi buffet…
all of the big fish are gone and I could only count about six small ones still swimming…
looked like a crime scene with fish corpses and plants ripped out of the pond…
miserable job to clean it up… had to use a shovel and disposable gloves to pick everything up, and then hose it down… still fish scales left on the deck, even after spraying it twice…
tomorrow I will pick them up by hand…
I am usually thrilled with all creatures that wander through the garden… maybe not so much for ones who destroy the natural setting…
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