the adventures of patentgirl

This was the scene from our living room last night. Momma Raccoon and a few of her new babies literally dropped in to say hello. Unfortunately one of her little ones was a bit too quick in hopping down off the wall surrounding our backyard before realizing he couldn’t make it back up!

Poor mom spent a while going up and down, picking up baby in her mouth, dropping her, trying to hoist him up on to the wall. All the while, the other babies remained hidden in the bushes - but making a whole lot of noise.

This little one is probably only 4-6 weeks old.

We learned a lot about various raccoon noises on the internet, because before these two even became visible, we could hear them. Raccoons make the strangest noise! I thought they were birds at first. Ch-ch-check it out.

I had been starting to wonder what the funny white growths were on our little ball cacti. Well, we found out this weekend!

This cacti is only about 2 inches in diameter - The flower is as big as it is! It only opens up for a few hours and then completely closes in a white fuzzy coccoon. We have an even smaller ball cacti that has two of these growths on it, so i cant wait to see what it looks like in a few days.