Varmit report

[tenaya]

Cutiepie has definitely divorced herself from the kids. She gives a lot of growling and snorting when they cross paths. Four of the kids are traveling together, so that's nice to see. Cutiepie was protecting her courtyard tonight and not letting them come down, so I threw peanuts up the hill at them. They eventually changed places and all got to eat and drink.

There was a terrible confrontation tonight while we were watching The Night Stalker. At first I thought it was a fight between two cats, then maybe between a cat and something else. I got my flashlight and a Big Stick and ventured out into the courtyard and peered up into the darkness where bodies were still pelting about. "This just HAD to happen while we're watching a scary werewolf show, didn't it?!" I shouted back at Mom as I angled over to try to make sure Brindle wasn't involved. I saw a coon up the tree and heard snorting further up the hill. It was two coons fighting. I was more than happy to go back into the house.

Last night, the kids were coming down from the elm tree into the courtyard while Brindle was resting, about 20 feet away on the berm. They had taken offense at him once when he left out of the patio door when they were in the area, so I was a bit concerned about what would happen. So was Brindle. He stood up. One of the coons arched his back like cats do and walked a few paces towards him cautiously. Brindle didn't care for that at all and spronked through the mob with amazingly high bounces. Three bounces and he was passed them and heading through the gate towards the front yard. The other coons all arched their backs and circled about, arching at each other and looking around. "We're making ourselves look big, right? Why are we doing that again?? What's going on?" "Oh! Food, that's right!" and they went back to eating. Brindle can take care of himself, but I can't help but worry about him, still.

On a side note, I'd left a case of canned soda in the back of my car. When I went shopping tonight, there was a puddle of diet coke. The heat had exploded at least one of the cans. That'll teach me. At least it wasn't real coke or else the mess would have been horribly sticky.

Comments

[moonchildetoo.livejournal.com]

Awww....the kids are growing up! (whether they want to or not, eh?)

Your soda incident reminds me of when I had a strawberry banana smoothie ferment and explode in my fridge. I don't think I've ever gotten it all out!

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

It fermented?? Wow. Probably yeast. You were on your way to making beer, my dear! But what a mess!!

I checked out the case today. Three cans had exploded and most of the other ones are extremely deformed up where you pop the top. These were splenda cokes, so I imagine they will still be safe to drink. I guess.

[moonchildetoo.livejournal.com]

It must have happened to other people too, because oddly, the next time I went to the store (different store) and got smoothies (these were all Naked Juice), the *checker* told me to be careful of the dates on the bottles and not let them go bad, "because they explode"...!