We’ve had some visitors around our house for the last week… visitors of the fuzzy persuasion. Raccoons! We were sitting on the couch watching TV the other night, and I caught a glimpse of a tail going by the patio door. I figured it was just a cat,but I told Phil to go see what it was. I jokingly said it might be a raccoon. Imagine my surprise when Phil looked out the door and there were two of them! They were eating the dogs’ food. They must have seen us looking at them, because they climbed off the deck and took off. We live in a huge subdivision, and our house is on the corner of two pretty busy roads, so I’m kind of surprised to see raccoons! We have a small patch of woods between our back yard and the subdivision behind us, so I guess that’s where they cam from.

We have two Jack Russell Terriers, and for as spoiled and lazy as they are, they are worker dogs. As soon as Rocky, the male, stepped one foot on the deck, he smelled the coons. He went all over that yard looking for them! Later that night, they must have come back, because I was outside at 2:00 a.m. yelling at him to get his butt in the house. I think he had one of them up in a tree. Our female JRT could care less. This is a dog that won’t go outside if it’s raining! She should have been a Poodle or a Yorkie! LOL!

Anyway, the raccoons have been back almost every night. I had to start bringing the dog and cat food bowls inside at night. The other night I looked out on the deck when I heard Rocky barking, and there was a coon hanging from the 4×4 post that holds the roof over the deck! He was all the way at the top too! I was waiting for him to try to start climbing across the ceiling of the porch and pull all the soffit work down! He got down and away from Rocky somehow.

Hopefully they will move on to another house since they don’t have  food to eat now. They are cute, and I wish I could have snapped a couple of photos, but it was too dark. I know they carry disease, so it’s best for them to be on their merry way!

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OK, so what else has been going on? We couldn’t pick up our Puffer fish over the weekend. He needs to stay in quarantine for another week. Apparently they are very susceptible to ick when they get stressed. So, better to be safe and protect our other fish.

Yesterday Jordan wanted to go to the mall. This child LOVES the mall. I have no idea why though – she’s not interested in going in any of the stores! She just likes to go to the food court and walk around! They have an indoor playground there, so she played on that a while. Phil watched her while I did a little shopping. I picked up some clearance stuff for Jordan. I got her some really cute velour jogging sets for like 75% off and a new pair of jeans. I just had to throw all but two pair of her jeans in her “recycle” trunk. They were all floods on her – LOL! When did that happen??

Well, other than this stuff, the only other thing I’ve been doing is working on some new stuff for the stores and my typical household stuff. I am starting to despise laundry! Where do all of these clothes come from??? Most of them are Phil’s! I think he needs to do laundry duty for a while – yeah right!

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Well, it’s only three weeks until Valentine’s Day. I was just thinking yesterday that Jordan and I need to get busy and make some cards. I don’t send out many, so I thought it would be cute to make some with my paper and supplies. I’ll post some photos when we get them done, but for now, here’s something I did last night. It’s a altered playing card, and it’s perfect for Valentines!

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