Sometimes later in the evening when we are dimming some lights and heading for bed, it has been memorable to catch a glimpse of our little dude making himself at home.  I just sit down quietly in the darkened atrium [...]

We think that perhaps we have hit a homerun with the placement of Skinny’s igloo outside the atrium door and the addition of a heating pad in his digs, especially critical and hopefully attractive as we enter a temperature dip.  [...]

As the nights grow colder, our furry friends are busier than ever getting their good eats as you can see in the antics of the acrobatic youngster above. Also, in the ever-continuing saga of the perils of our raccoon friend [...]

We have been so elated that Skinnyman was eating all his hi-protein cat food every night not realizing that he had a clandestine helper.  Here is Mr. Skinny noshing on his fave scrambled eggs only to be chucked out-of-the-queue by [...]

We just don’t seem to get enough of the grins and chuckles provided by our surreptitious visitors, especially those that sneak in for late-night dining.  One of the raccoon families is incredibly faithful in their patronage and they pass the [...]

Talk about an accelerated timeline for picking and storing our apples – the moment the colder nights began, our apples all got ripe at once so off to picking and storing we went.  Guess who will be making apple cobblers? [...]

As the weather continues to cool we have redoubled our attempts to help Skinny the hairless raccoon with food and hopefully some shelter.  Our first ‘perfect’ location was tucked in a mountain nook and between the Chauffeur’s Quarters and the [...]

Our two little raccoon families visit at least once per night and all the little dudes have gotten quite confident in climbing for the jelly and the goodies on the feeding platform in the tree. These two youngsters were so [...]