As of last Monday the 16th, it appears the raccoon infestation has been eradicated. The final tally in one week was 9 raccoons, and 2 opossum trapped and relocated. I did experience momentary terror on Saturday night, when returning home from work after midnight, I saw at least four raccoons milling about on the shoulder [...]

Filed under: Farm, Home on July 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

After day six of no animals trapped in the barn, we thought we were finally done catching raccoons. However, today the traps contained another raccoon and a very small opossum. I have to wonder if we’re going to start catching opossum now that the raccoon population has been reduced. Regardless, I’m tired of driving the [...]

Filed under: Farm on July 14th, 2007 | No Comments »

As of today we’ve live trapped seven raccoons in the barn in the past five days. We were trapping them one at a time initially, but now we’re catching them in pairs. Some of them have been ornery buggers. I’ve been videotaping all of them and their releases and have put them on YouTube.

Filed under: Farm, Home on July 12th, 2007 | No Comments »

Justin graduated from Air Force Basic Training in Texas on 6/1/2007. He just sent his graduation photo to his mother and we got a copy.

Filed under: Justin on July 12th, 2007 | No Comments »