Late nite winter wildlife update

[cheezstk]

Suburban Critter Count:

• 2 raccoons
• 1 possum
• 4 leaves that really looked like mice

We've been going out to holiday parties & such, & coming home later in the evening than normal. That's my best guess as to why in this last week, I've seen more large, non-cat, mammalian wildlife wandering around inside my housing complex than I've seen in the last six years (not counting the Bunny Incident of '05.)

The freaky thing about the Raccoon Twins (well, about raccoons in general) is that they aren't afraid of you.  You're too big for them to eat, but they figure (correctly) that they're too big for me to mess with.   They don't scarper like a decent nocturnal wild animal; they just look at you like "What?  Whadd'ya want? You lookin' at me?" then they kind of wander off.  But only cause they feel like it.