The Racoon

Yesterday morning we had a lot of excitement around the house. Patty, Joshua, Joy and any number of little kids went to get Nickers to wash him. Patty was planning on washing him by the pool and when she brought him over there he you could tell that he really did not want to go over there. Rowdy was also over there and barking Patty and Joshua looked around and finally looked up in the tree and saw 2 racoons. Patty went to get the gun, Joshua took the horse a little ways away and Joy came in the house to get the camera and me. We all went out there and Patty stood around and stalled for a little bit and finally when she was going to shoot .......The Woodley's came driving up for LTG. So while Regina unloaded kids Patty finally got up the nerve to shoot. She shot, and shot and shot, Patty probably shot at the racoons like 20 time and hit them like 2, in the process she wounded one and it climbed out of the tree and ran away. So we switched to Joshua with out much luck and finally Mommy said that it was enough and she took over and finally killed it. Then of course we had to knock it out of the tree and have a science lesson. So here are some pictures of the day.

The racoon in the tree.

Close up of the Racoon after it was killed. Annie