Item The First: That was odd… Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Hello? *insert feedback squeal here* Hello? On the one hand, it looks like a daily record for the site in visitors and views (17 visitors & 27 views, so it’s not John Scalzi’s “Whatever” blog, but it’s still a record) and all week’s been similar, but it looks like 90% of the traffic is going to the “Raccoon Rescue” post, and absolutely NONE of it to the story I posted yesterday. Hello? OK, moving on.
Item The Second: Speaking of the little raccoon family, they’ve been out and about around sunset every night this week, being quite bold about lounging around on the tool shed roof (on the west side of the house so it gets the late afternoon sun). I can stand in the front yard and watch them, but as soon as I try to get close enough for pictures, they scatter.
Last night in the late dusk I could have sworn that I saw there were three kits (raccoon babies are called “kits” I now know). A little research shows that raccoon couples have litters of two to seven, so there very well be more than the two I saw at the spa last week.
And if you want to know what they sound like, I found this. Imagine four or five of them roughhousing on the roof in the middle of the night, jumping off into the trees, chasing each other all over the yard, screaming that noise.
Item The Third: In other critter news, one of the local skunks has apparently had a very bad night tonight. We’ve got the house all buttoned up and the A/C going full blast and it still reeks in here, so it must have been close and a major event. I hope that Jessie doesn’t get any stupid ideas (AGAIN!!) if she has to go out tonight.
Item The Fourth: Why would the house still be buttoned up and the A/C going full blast at 22:00 at night? Because it’s still pushing 95F out there after reaching a high of about 102F, with temps pushing 110F over the weekend. At least we’re not in Palm Springs (119F), Las Vegas (117F), Phoenix (119F), Lake Havasu (126F). That is not a typo – One Hundred And Twenty-Six Degrees Fahrenheit is Saturday’s expected high in Lake Havasu, Arizona. Words fail me…
Item The Fifth: The June “earworm” comes from the new Natalie Maines album, “Mother”. It’s a nice album and I have been deeply in love with her voice for near on fifteen years since the first Dixie Chicks album hit like a bombshell. There are several very good songs, but the title track, her take on the Pink Floyd song from “The Wall” is just spec-freakin’-tacular. Can’t stop hearing it in my head, can’t stop twitching unnaturally unless I listen to it two or three times a day. Very, very tasty indeed.
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