First and Foremost: It’s the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. Check out the Air and Space Museum blog.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, a midnight requisition by felonious raccoons left all four Roma tomato plants devoid of 20 pounds worth of nearly ripe goodness. I thought humans had been in my garden the job was so neat, until I saw some half-eaten green fruits marked by tiny claws.
With all the bounty growing wild here, you’d think the raccoons would stay away from my garden. Huge clumps of fat blackberries next to my veggies did not tempt the masked bandits. Most animals don’t like tomatoes, but some of the leaves of the plants appear to have been nibbled off by roving deer. Maybe it’s time to invest in some fencing.
I’d post nice pics of the glories of nature, but my internet service provider is of the devil. I am on restriction for going over my bandwidth usage limit again. Supposedly, there’s a 3 AM upload window during which one may get those big files in and out without breaking the rules. After hauling my ass up in the middle of the night to upload a 385 MB file, I found myself on restriction this morning anyway. I’d go to another company, but there isn’t one out here.
Since I have another dozen files to load this week, it looks like there will be very little web surfing. Just as well. PuhLENTY of drawing goes on when the web does not.
Fortunately, I pre-loaded all the A Distant Soil comic pages this week, so there should be no break in the story.
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We had the air-conditioning hobbit in today, all routine maintenance visit, ho hum, paid for in the installation contract, very watermelon-lemonade in the hammock kind of thing, and sure enough: the hobbit found a raccoon in the attic. HISSS! So now we have to have animal control in, and I will feel guilty because it’s almost certainly a nesting mother, but not too guilty because of teh RABIES. And the money. AAIGH!
Argh, I know how that is. Found bats in the attic. Left them to tend their babies, but we are cleaning up now that they have left and cutting off their future access. Rabies alert all around.
And the fact that I now know what’s digging garbage out of the cans and eating it on top of my car. HISSSSSSS.