Home Sweet Home!

What a terrible night of travel! After getting on our delayed flight, we proceeded out onto the tarmac only to sit for another hour waiting in line to take off! Instead of getting home at the reasonable hour of 10:30pm, we dragged our asses into the house at about 1am!

This is pretty much how I felt by then.......

It wasn't over there! We still had to trudge out back and take care of the overwinters in some very windy, cold weather. Some of the released gang was out there too. Red was there in her usual "I wanna play, give me some attention!" mood. What a great coonie.

No sign of Paleface in the den box since I returned. She must have just needed a temporary place to hole up for a while.

The overwinters were happy enough to have us back to poke their heads out for a visit before the wind drove them back into the warmth of their den boxes. Don't let the sun fool ya....it was cold, windy and miserable.

Damn airline travel!

Well after a week of lectures and classes on wildlife rehabilitation, Laurie, Mary and myself are finally on our way home! Unfortunately much later than planned. Our 7:50pm flight was delayed until 9:20. So after a couple hours at the airport bar we are thankfully going home to our own comfortable beds again! (And to see our furry babies that we really miss, even though we'll never admit it!)

We're on our way!

Mary, Laurie and myself are on our way to the NWRA Symposium in NJ! Here we are on our very early morning flight.....6:30 am....YUCK! Horrible, turbulent flight...but we made it safe and sound and are getting ready to spend the next 4 days learning even more about our passion...rehabilitating the various species of wildlife that come into our care!

Keep us posted on our kids at home Lisa!

Red wants to play!

I don't know if it was the warm weather or maybe Red is going into heat, or maybe she just missed mom....but she was VERY happy to see me last night! She came running down the path to the feeding station, chattering away when she heard me there. She got up on the platform and when I walked over to her she literally ran over and jumped into my arms! She wanted to play and be cuddled back like when she was a kit. Pretty unusual for the releases. They do remember me and usually tolerate me being around and giving them treats to check them out, but never a display like this. They never want to be held once they've been released back into the wild.

Belle was out there also. At least I'm pretty sure it was Belle. She came over to check me out briefly then went right to the feeding bucket so I didn't have a good enough look to be positive. Belle was on of the quads from my first release and they all looked alike. I know it definitely wasn't Ringer, and Brownie tends to be a bitch to most other coonies out there and she tolerated Red. Based on her attitude, It was most likely Belle. She just hung out and ate while Red was there eating in front.

So I finally had to sneak away from the area. I was afraid Red was going to follow me back up to the house because of the way she was acting. I waited for her to take a trip down to the waters edge and snuck back up the path wondering what had come over her!

I saw no sign of Paleface in the den box. She didn't poke her head out and I wasn't about to disturb her if she was in there by poking my head in there!