Signs of spring in the trees

[zebulen]

 
Cinnamon was making quite a fuss this evening, baying like the beagle his grandparents were.  I figured it would just be a car, or a rabbit, or a squirrel, or..the wind.  But no, I looked outside and saw a large furry animal swaying in the branches of a spindly boxelder tree.  At the bottom of that tree was Cinnamon, barking like he had cornered a

Comments

[oregana]

How nice for Cinnamon to add some excitement to his day. He probably got the racoon's heart thumping too.

[sillyliss]

The funniest part is that when you told Emilia that you were going outside to see if Cinnamon had trapped a raccoon, she talked about it for 20 minutes, and gradually the story morphed from Cinnamon woofing at a raccoon to Daddy going to find a baby giraffe and bringing it inside to be her pet.

[tenthz]

That's quite the 'coon dog you've got there! Go Cinnamon!

[oregana]

"The He-coon walks before the light of day." - Walkin' Lawton in a political debate, 1994.

First thing I think of when ever I see a racoon or hear the word. :)

[zebulen]

I had to Google that one, Mom. Interesting character. I came up with this list of his other colloquialisms in my search:

http://www.sptimes.com/State/121498/THE__HE_COON__SPEAKS.html

[oregana]

Yes. I watched that debate and that line was a beauty! Jeb Bush was the other debater and his facial reaction was memorable (surprised, confused)! Walkin' Lawton had some very colorful and expressive speech. I liked him. He was very popular. He died much too young. A loss to Florida.

[katsurian]

That looks like the one I surprised in my back yard one night!