Cloudy with a chance of raccoons

June

That was the weather at my house Saturday. Cloudy with a chance of raccoons.

I was mowing the meadow that my lawn had become and had stopped to put more gas in the mower. Just as I was about to restart the machine, I heard this crashing noise in the tree branches above me.

I looked up and caught a glimpse of a raccoon plummeting to the ground, where it made a pretty decent thud when it hit. Not sure what was happening, I stepped over toward the house. After about 30 seconds, this small raccoon – possibly born this year – slowly began climbing up the locust tree. It took him at least a couple of minutes to ascend the 60 or so feet he descended in about three seconds.

He hung out in the crotch of the tree for a few hours – see blurry photo – and then disappeared.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm by Mike Risinit.
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