I was so busy, I almost forgot to be me.

[in_the_blue]

If I haven't got back to you on anything today, forgive me. I was at school with Hannah all day - field trip! - and errands on the way home, and real life. And it's boring! So I won't bore everybody with the details.

However, I will take a moment to tell you about my four raccoons: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.

We have a small deck off our kitchen and on it is a table with four chairs. One of the chairs butts up against the side of the house, just under a window. There's a bird feeder on the window, attached with suction cups and filled with sunflower seed chips for the chickadees and finches.

Last night at around 11:30 I looked over to the window because there was a lot of noise. One of the baby (well, really, juvenile) raccoons was standing on the back of the chair, hands splayed on the window, reaching up and stealing sunflower seeds. I thought... oh, Prongs, you're going to fall off there! And sure enough... wham!

Within about 30 seconds he was back for more. It was so amusing... my own little raccoon sitcom.

Hey, Hex! Keep your hands off my sunflower seeds!

P.S. The one I call Padfoot curls up on the deck at the top of the stairs just like a puppy protecting the house. It's unbelievably sweet.

Comments

so cute

[proudofthefish.livejournal.com]

this is so cute. I especaly liked that you named them after MWPP it is great what do M and W act like?

Re: so cute

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

They behave just as you'd expect. Wormtail has a scar on his forehead from the other ones beating him up and he's always the last to get to join in the fun. And Moony just hangs back quietly and waits his turn.

Prongs and Padfoot are the only two brave enough to get very close to my hands when I feed them.

Of course, I could be completely and utterly anthropomorphizing the four of them. They could all be girl raccoons; they could be from an entirely different fandom [snerk]; it could be that all raccoons that come in sets of four have the same basic personalities. But it makes me happy to have fun with them this way.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

You never told me you named them!!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Probably because I was too busy being other people with you, and I can be rather mundane in comparison.

Or maybe you never asked.