We have to bring the bird feeders in overnight because the raccoons have been getting into them.

This is the scene a week ago:



They climbed the roof supports - left sticky little hand prints all over them. They reach from the side and slide over the feeders over, not always knocking them to the ground. The first time we noticed it, each of us thought the other had slid the feeder over for some reason, but forgot to ask the other one.

Last night I caught one in the act. He was licking the base, and even reached a little hand-like paw into the jar that goes on top, getting the last bits of juice.



He was untroubled by the beam of the flashlight. This morning when I was looking for one of the feeders, it was nowhere to be seen, and finally I saw it up on the roof of the patio cover.

No, I am not going to encourage these guys.

Today is Roofer Reprise Day. There is a place on the house where they missed a couple fasteners (no, I did not go looking for this, just noticed it by accident), and they mentioned a flashing they want to do or re-do. Then, they are going to use the leftover metal to do a couple other buildings. It will be nice to have it all done because we are entering a rainy time. Come to think of it, we had a lot of rain last night, and I wonder if it's a good idea to put the metal on over a wet roof. It was so dry for so long, and now we've started having rain when it's bad for the roofs.