In the rough outdoors I feel like a homesteader
Gary had quite an experience tonight that he described as a “blogging moment”. I realized how involved Gary is in the blogging world when he makes statements like that. I will attempt to describe this event in my own words; I hope to do it justice.
Gary and I came home from a date tonight (first one in months it was great). I took the kids in the house to get ready for bed and he stayed outside to do chores and take care of the animals. I had Lindsy asleep with Justin on the way but Gary was still outside. Justin and I were on the bed reading a book when we hear 3 REALLY loud noises outside, that scared the heck out of us. We went to the back door to see what Gary had done; Gary was already running up the steps breathless and smiling. He had just won a battle and the adrenalin was pumping…
Gary was going to feed the cats in the shed when he realized he was not alone in the shed. Two beady eyes were looking at him and then it started to growl and hiss. A RACOON!!! They shared a moment, he drew his weapon, they looked each other in the eye and the raccoon ran away…fear had overcome him (the raccoon I mean). And yes it is sad my husband did have a weapon on him and had the option to shoot at will. Gary spent the next 40 minutes in a battle of wits with this raccoon trying to eradicate it from his precious shed. He sent his trusty dog in…who cowered and refused to flush out the vermin. He grabbed his shot gun, which he deemed safer than a handgun, less likely to shoot yourself in the foot. He called Blake to “get his stupid trap and dog down here...it might work better than my dumb dog”. He attempted to use a pitch fork which just made holes in the poor creature and made Gary use words like “okay this is personal” and “@#@!!$%”. Gary FINALLY flushed the raccoon out the door and ran after it with his shotgun. The dumb thing stopped in the doorway and Gary nearly tripped over it. He didn’t like being so close to a raccoon so he pulled a “chuck Norris” jump shot spin in the air and shot the raccoon. We then took this picture to document the event. What a great night in the country.