My daughter, Ashley, confirmed she'd seen them when they stayed here over Thanksgiving. I asked why she hadn't told me! Her answer, "You would have asked me to feed them and buy them marshmallows..."
Love this....... The comment sounds like something someone in my family would tell me. But I lost the battle. We finally had to fasten wire with very small holes along our entire open back fence to keep the wildlife out -- the rabbits and chipmunks were destroying our grass and plants...... (We had to have a large part of it resodded when we returned from our summer to the Maritimes in 2010.) Seems we were providing dinner for them on a daily basis.
Our raccoons always feel they must play food critic with our compost. They sit like fat little gnomes, examining bits of rotting food and then throwing it over their shoulder if it doesn't pass muster. Makes quite the mess to clean up the next day!
@pyrrhula No problem about the damage...in my life it come part-and-parcel with animals and little children ;-) Today Dylan (20 months) got his hands on a little ceramic fish I'd bought in Mexico 50 years ago (!)...he was holding it and looking at it and suddenly threw it into the sink! Whoops! I told him he was throwing away his inheritance :) I can't let small calamities bother me...
@fugitivemoments You're using your delightful writing skills to describe your funny varmints! I read it to Ashley who laughed along with me! Delightful!
So sorry for the damage.