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Nighttime drinks and entertainment

By Linda Waggener

I didn't need a signed note to tell me raccoons had visited my back porch shelves on the coldest night of the year to date.

Frozen blobs of orange soda and a can with the bottom blown out were message enough.

There were splatters of frozen orange ice on the floor, on the chairs, on the bed for the feral cats, on everything. It's hard to image how many splatters a 12 ounce can of frozen liquid can make until you see it everywhere it should not be.


Crafty raccoons have visited those shelves before and I was wrong to forget the canned drinks and leave them on the porch. To the animals, it was simply an invitation.

Furthermore, the raccoons did not choose the canned root beer.

They did not choose the canned Sprite.

They chose my very favorite orange diet drink to pull out of the box with their crafty little hands, drop on the concrete floor and watch frozen ice blobs explode. Drinks and entertainment.


This story was posted on 2024-01-25 01:42:04
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Surprise orange iced back porch



2024-01-25 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Crafty raccoons have visited the back porch before but they never had the ammunition to leave such a surprising mess until I forget the canned drinks when the temperature dropped below freezing. To the animals, it was simply an invitation.

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