Silly Raccoon...

Around Northwest Indiana, we had many inches of rain with major flooding for the third time in 14 months. This flood did not close schools this time, but bus routes had to be rerouted. The picture you see is your Grandma Gail's backyard shed.



The flood as you can see was devastating to all that live by a creek, ditch, or river, and dispersed animals from their normal home to find other places of shelter. The above picture where all the water is usually is an agricultural field, but it has momentarily become a lake. Here's another picture...



Grandma Gail had a visitor because of the flood...



This raccoon ended up in her garage because the person, who normally picks up her lawn mower to repair and/or tune it up for the long mowing season, forgot to securely close the door to her back door of her garage. This raccoon ended up climbing over a partition in the garage to another part of the garage and
dented the front end of her car by knocking over an old potato tin jar. What luck! Any who, Grandma Gail and I had to take care of the coon. We decided to trap the raccoon and displace it to one of my different places that I can hunt. (Thanks, Dad!) We took the raccoon in my truck...



then set it down in the woods, placing some food down to tease him out of the trap!



We really didn't need to place anything down to coax him out of the cage, because once I opened up the trap door, he flew up that tree...



and he finally started to feel a little more comfortable in his new home.



Silly Raccoon!