Lately I have found that my husband and I have become synchronized....annoyingly so, when it comes to night time & early morning trips to the commode. I can't tell you how many times I've raised my head from the pillow, looked at the clock, debated whether or not I can put it off, decide I can't and start to roll over to get up, when Mike darts out of bed and dashes past me in mid-struggle out of the waterbed. Mike has been flirting with danger because sometimes seriously it is quite obvious I was ahead of him, or I am already IN the bathroom and he tries to barge in. Tonight the stakes just went up. Mike beat me out of the gate as I was halfway out of bed, so resigned, I just went to the other bathroom. The kids had left lights on and as I was turning them off, I saw Diego on the railing of the back porch by the door. His tail was fluffed out and he had a wild look in his eye, so I opened the door and he couldn't get inside fast enough. That's our brave Diego! I looked around but didn't see anything. Diego meanwhile is doing the happy dance all around my feet. I pointed out his food dish but he stopped eating to follow me around as I went and checked the front yard for Pixie and then back to see if I could see anything out back from the other window. I thought I saw Pixie's tail by window sill I let the cats in from by the porch.
It was 1:20 a.m., but I managed a thought of caution and only opened the window 2" - enough to call her name through but not enough for anything to actually come in that I don't want to. Good thinking considering....It wasn't Pixie!! Diego tries telling me this. He was all about getting in front of me. I thought he wanted back out. Then he stretched up and extended his claws down the glass.....screeeeeeetch!!!!! Like "close this window! That's not Pixie!" Getting a clue, I decided to close the window. I went to the other window to see if she went there instead. Nope. I went back to the first window. And there was the raccoon - a very young one eating the sunflower seeds out of a little tin that my mom put out for the birds. As far as coloring goes, it looks remarkably like Pixie...especially his tail. But, up close & personal, raccoons aren't as cute as they look in pictures. Diego and I sat on our side of the window and watched him finish off the seeds and then go get a drink of water from one of our fountains. I can't imagine what would have happened if that raccoon would have taken me up on the offer to come inside!
See Mike, yet another reason why maybe you should be a gentleman and let me have the bathroom first!
6 comments:
I hear Raccoons are nasty little buggers! Ask Colton, he decided to trap one once in a cat cage! That raccoon was MAD!!!
I would have loved the story of a raccon in your house. I thought the rat story was pretty funny.
lol...I have never seen raccoons up close, but they don't sound fun. Michael and I were chased by a badger once, also not fun.
Great way to tie the story up in the end. You think a lot?!?!
And Mike thought the LAST post was about him haha.
Yes Matt and I are synced (is that a word and if so is it spelled properly?) together at night time as well. About 3:30 both of us wake up me to go pee (duh) and him because his allergy meds have run out and he's got to find tissue and some more meds and fast. You think we would figure it out its been going on the last week.
As far as a racoon in the house goes that would have been HORRIBLE. Good thing you had Diego there to gaurd/warn you!
Thankfully, Eric and I are not when it comes to the bathroom. I can not believe you almost called a racoon into the house! SCARY! Way to go Diego! Not sure what Kik would have done... ;)
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