“Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me–put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”
~Philippians 4:9~

There were four baby raccoons on the deck tonight*. A lady I was talking to at work this last time said she used to keep raccoons as house pets. She and her husband raised them from when they were babies. They would even sometimes sleep in her bed. When her husband died she stopped with the raising them because it was too much for just her.

They ran away of course, and were more like teenager size. I still miss and think about our raccoons. Something I have come to understand along the way through these cats is that you don’t just take care of the animals/people/things/etc that you love. It isn’t just “I love you, so I am going to take care of you”. Sometimes it’s like that, but something else can happen as well. You grow to love the ones you take care of.

The groundhog isn’t around anymore. One of the boys did something to the front of his house where he blocked the entryway. The groundhog dug around it a couple of times but finally must’ve gotten frustrated and gone somewhere else. There’s a lot of sand back there, so it’s easy to dig in but also collapses easily. It’s all sunken in back there now.

(*started writing last night, but it didn’t go anywhere)