Tuesday Raccoons back at the Diner

So hang on just... Scooter, would you please stop biting my feet? Hang on just a second, folks. I gotta get the food. And Scooter's biting my feet. Jim will be out in just a second. Here you go, baby girl. Hi, everybody. What are y'all doing? Daddy will be out here in just a minute. Come here. Hello, little one. I'll give him a hot dog. You want a hot dog? Come here. Here you go. Oh, yeah. Good. You'd rather have a cookie? I know that. Would you rather have a cookie or a hot dog? Here you go. So we got one, two, three, four Scooters over there. And then here's a little bit. So, here comes Jim. Hi, sweetie. I got the recording going. It's working. Okay. They ain't all that Kentucky Fried Chicken I had there. Yeah. Ain't bones at all. Goodness. They're like Kentucky Fried Chicken. You want a cookie? You want to sit down? Yeah, I'll sit there with you. I'll get my body over there. I know you're going kind of slow today. I'm having a rough time tonight. Maybe the cold. It's cold here. I expect so. We're having frost up in New Brunswick. Yeah. There's one probably heading for the bushes. Yeah. These guys seem to be doing okay. Huh? Here you go. I'm cold. But we have raccoons. That's a good thing. Maybe the bear went on. That old bear. The bear is scaring them off. There's that little guy. I know. There's a little bit. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. You want to come and get something out of the treasure chest? Huh? I was asking that one. Did he want to come and get something out of the treasure chest? Yeah. I put a couple of pieces of chicken up there and they devoured it. Did they? Yeah. There was two of them up there eating it. Anyway. I got my father's sweater on. I got my raccoon whisperer jacket on. He was 84 when he died. He'd be over 100 now. Would he? Born in 1912. Yeah, he would be. My mom was born in 1913. Why, hello, pretty girl. Hello, girl. There you go, Daddy. There's Bandit. It's cold. Huh? It's chilly. It was down to 8 last night. Celsius. And, uh... You did live last night after I went to bed. Huh? You did live last night after I went to bed. Yeah, but I had to erase it at the end. It got all freaked up. It got contaminated. A bunch of them seen it, though. Come here. It got corrupted. Huh? It got corrupted. We had to take it off. It wasn't acting right. You want another one? I can't stop yawning. I told you I was tired. I got one for her. Give me a cookie. I got one for her. There you go. Get inside. Oh, he's stealing the cookie. Give him a cookie. He thinks he's doing something big. I'm going to help myself. Hey! Stop it. There's plenty to go around. Who's that shooting off? I'm not sure who that was. There's Bandit. Hey, Bandit, you want another cookie? What you doing, girl? There you go. She wants to lick all the cream. Look, it's gone. Huh? Gone already. That's one of the babies there. Yep. Peaches, what have you been in? She's got green Hitchhikers all over her. You've been in the bushes. Yes, you have. You got two over there. Want another one? So you had a lot of people on your lob last night. Yeah. A little bit. Goodness. What did I put on you? I put sausage out last night. The sausage that I made the other day? Yep. I bet they liked that. They ate it right up. So we watched a show today about sloth bears. Sloth bear from Sri Lanka. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I didn't know they existed. They're pretty violent. They see you, they rip your face off. That's what they said. Well, they've been known to kill people there in Sri Lanka. 187 were killed last year. Goodness, that is a lot. Well, they got a big, huge population. Yeah. And they're living in their area. So. I love bears. He loves bears. I want to go to Katmai and watch the bears. But my daughter, I was seeing if she was going to come and celebrate her 40th birthday with me and my grandson and my son and all of us. No. She is going to celebrate her 40th birthday on Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier. She's going to go hiking for her 40th birthday. And I asked her, I said, do you have your bear bells and your bear spray and all that good stuff? What do you mean? I said, please tell me you've done your research. And she says, are there bears there? And I said, yes, there's black bears on Rainier, for sure. And I said, there's been some bears on Mount St. Helens, but not a whole lot. I said, but black bears are known for attacking people more than brown bears and grizzly bears. All she's doing is eating the cream. That's all she's doing. He wants a cookie. So, she sent me a picture. She ordered her some bells and some spray. So, I thought it would be better knowing that she's going to be a little bit protective. Don't be chasing him. Here you go. That's it. Look how quick they slipped them open. No, no. All gone. You and your greasy old paws. My goodness. He doesn't know his paws are greasy. His paws are full of cream. Are you going to get in it? Are you going to get in the bucket? Look at this one. He's batting me on the pants here. We don't have any more. He wants more. You want me to get another pack? You want another pack of cookies? You'll have to go get them. Hey, baby. You want me to go get the cookies? You'll have to get the cookies. Hunter, you want some cookies? Yeah. So, we got a guy coming up Thursday to do a quote on the heat pump. So, that'll be the third one. I don't know if we have to have any more than that or not. That's three quotes. The one we had the other day was over $16,000, was it? What are you talking about? A quote the other day? Does that include taking out the furnace and everything? Taking out the furnace and the oil tank. Okay. Here. Don't be stealing that, honey. Here. Hey, bandit. All you're doing is flipping them open and eating the cream. She'll come back and eat them. She'll eat some hot dogs in a minute. I've noticed that she does that after she gets all the cream she wants. She eats hot dogs. There won't be nothing left here in an hour and a half. The whole deck will be cleaned right off. Let's watch her. Let's sit open just like that. And the cream's gone. So, you've had a rough day today. Who, me? Yeah. You took your pain pills, though. I went out to the mail and I was down here on the lawn. I had to pick up the bottom of that feeder. I got the mail and put them boxes in for you and I took the recycle downstairs. Yeah. Where'd all that energy come from? I don't know, but I paid for it. I was surprised when I saw you coming down the steps. I scare you when I go down there. Yeah, because I have earphones on. I should have hollered. Hello. What are y'all doing? Oh, she's back again. Back again. You getting that marshmallow? Stand up pretty. There. Look at that. Two seconds. One, two. She's done. The cream's gone. Stand up. You got her another one? Stand up. Look how quick she opens them. Yep, she does. All the cookies, there's no cream in them. That little one there on the step, though, is eating the ones without the cream. Yeah. See? Watch it. He's eating the ones. He's the wafer king. Yeah. He's doing good. There's no bones or nothing left of the chicken. Nope. Nothing up there. Yeah. And before anybody says anything, they can eat chicken and bones and all because they're adapted to that. When they kill chickens and ducks and stuff in the wild, they eat everything. it's the dogs that you can't put chicken bones to. Or a cat. My grandma used to feed her cats chicken bones. She'd boil a chicken for chicken and dumplings. You know how you get all those little bitty funky little neck bones and all that? She'd throw them out to the cats. You know what I mean? But that's when her cats lived outside. He's gone. And they were all feral because I couldn't touch any of her cats when I was little. Get out of here, you. Darn Miller. Goodness. Anyway. Are you about ready to go in? He wants a cookie. Here. Come here. Here. Some will take it from you and some won't. He's taking it home. You want a cookie? Here. Look. He found one that was open. He's big. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out who that is. Here. What color is the back of the neck? That's not Sammy. Come here. Oh, he's fine. He found Crino and the other ones. Look and see if there's a scar above the right eye. If there is, that's Lucy. Look at that. He took that whole thing in one big piece. Yep. I've got to get my bum up. Oh. There. Pull your drawers up. I made it. There you go. You want some more, sweetheart? Come here, baby. Come here, honey. Are you going home, too? I heard a cookie. Connor cat. Connor cat's in the tree. Yep. I did have a first the other day. A what? A first. Was it Saturday or Sunday? I was laying on the couch with the blankets over me and lo and behold, Charlotte got up on my side and laid down and went to sleep. That was a first. She gets and sits with me and has coffee with me every morning, but she's never got on top of me physically. What's flying around here? Millers. Is it? What is a miller? It's a moth. We'll leave them out. Leave what out? Those feeders. Hi. She got cookies. Come here, baby. Want a cookie? Go get a cookie. There's cookies everywhere. That's a baby. See if you have a whole one. There's a whole one right there. Come on. There's whole ones all over here. Come on up. Going home. The wind's blowing. The wind is blowing and it's kind of frightening now. Yep. I've got to get my left leg in first. I'm glad you're learning to do that. There. Hello, Bubby. There's a corner cat. There we go. Lock it so the bear doesn't open the door. Yeah, the bear can open that. I'll get it in a minute. I'll take my foot full of saw here. There we go. There. She's in my bed. Yep. She's in my bed. Yep. Laying on her side. There she is. There's the baby girl. There's the baby girl. Aren't you? You good girl. Are you? Are you a good girl? Stay up there. Oh yeah. Sit pretty. I got a birthday card today. It's got three two dollar bills in it. And a little note. It came from Denise. Huh? It came from Denise. Denise? Denise Gazoffa in North Plainfield, New Jersey. Open up the card there. There it is. Yeah. Two dollar bills. Happy belated birthday. Very nice. And she sent me three two dollar bills. Yep. She knew you liked two dollar bills. A little note in it. Yep. Very sweet. Thank you, Denise. Thanks for thinking of Jim. And we'll put that in my collection. Yep. Put that in your two dollar bill collection. Yep. We don't have two dollar bills. We have a coin and a... Where'd he go? Oh, him? He's there. Come on. Yeah. We have a coin for one dollar and a coin for two dollars. Mm-hmm. And they were thinking of making one for five dollars, but they decided against it. Hi, Shorty. People be running around with all this heavy change in their pocket. Yeah. I got a bottle in here with the... I take them up to Sobey's and I... There's a machine you throw the change in and it counts it all for you and then Sobey's will give you the money for it. Oh, this is it here. Yeah. Yeah, there's a... That's a two dollar one. Where's the one? I've got one dollar here. Yeah. This is the one dollar. We call them loonies because they have a bird on it. A loon. So we call it a loonie. Kind of makes you think of... And we call this a toonie. Loonie toonies. And there's two coins in one. One's embedded in the other. And when they first come out, they had polar bear on them. What's that got on it? Queen Elizabeth. Huh? Queen Elizabeth. Is it? Yep. And then the polar bear's on the other side. Oh, the polar bear. Yeah, okay. Yep. So anyway... Hey, Connor! And you gave me a set of the 1967. Yeah, the Centennial? Centennial, yep. I gave you that set. Yep. And we had... The nickel had a rabbit on it. That's my baby. And our dime has the Blue Nose sailing ship on it. Yep. And our quarter has the caribou. Yep. And we don't have silver dollars anymore. You full now? Did you get full? Yeah. Connor, did you get a treat? Yes, he did. You got a treat, did you? Yes, I did. He had chicken. And he had french fries with gravy. Yes, you did. He's a good boy. Alright. Say goodnight to all your friends. Say goodnight. Huh? You gonna say goodnight to everybody? Are ya? Say goodnight, Connor. Say goodnight to Tracy. The one that found ya. Right, Connor? One beautiful cat. Alright, people. We'll see ya tomorrow, hopefully. Goodnight now.