{"id":3640,"date":"2017-10-26T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2017-10-26T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:06:34","slug":"thursday-26-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/10\/26\/thursday-26-october-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 26 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:06 –<\/strong><\/span> It was 33.6F (1C) when I took Colin out at 0625. I don’t think it ever got out of the 40’s yesterday. Barbara told me when she called yesterday that Sparta was forecast to have snow flurries yesterday or today. I haven’t seen any snow at all yet, but the weather is definitely getting more winter-like.<\/p>\n

When I opened the front door to take Colin out after dinner last night, there were not one but two raccoons at the hanging feeder. I kept him inside and stepped out onto the porch, shining the beam from my 3-C cell flashlight on them. They ignored me standing 8 or 10 feet away. I spoke sternly to them and they still ignored me.<\/p>\n

So I stepped back inside, picked up my Colt 1911, verified that it was cocked-and-locked, and went back outside, planning to shoot them if they didn’t back down. This time, as I came out the door they ambled away, over towards the garden.<\/p>\n

I walked down the length of the porch because if I decided to shoot I wanted to do so from an elevated position so that I’d have the yard itself as a safe backstop. By the time I got to the end of the porch, they’d already transited the garden and were in the grass behind it. So I came back in, got Colin, and gave him his after-dinner out.<\/p>\n

He spent a good half hour sniffing and marking our entire property, while I followed with my flashlight and .45. I may start wearing a headlamp. One hand for the flashlight and one for the pistol didn’t leave me a hand for my cane. I wonder if anyone makes a decent 1,000-lumen LED headlamp for a reasonable price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

09:06 – It was 33.6F (1C) when I took Colin out at 0625. I don’t think it ever got out of the 40’s yesterday. Barbara told me when she called yesterday that Sparta was forecast to have snow flurries yesterday or today. I haven’t seen any snow at all yet, but the weather is definitely getting more winter-like.<\/p>\n

When I opened the front door to take Colin out after dinner last night, there were not one but two raccoons at the hanging feeder.<\/p>\n

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