So my garage door was open last night. I try not to do that. Ooops. My kid was leaving and saw a family of young raccoons climbing the chain link fence as she was leaving. Saw all these little eyeballs staring at me from our huge tree on the back property near the gazebo as I closed the door to the garage.
This morning I go to get my bike and the garage is in shambles. I've seen this before. I know at least one darted to the garage and was trapped. Spent the day undoing the damage. Knocked two cans of gasoline over, soaked many things. Mess. Still could not find the '****.
So my DD and I at dusk plopped two of our big wooden outdoor bar chairs out in the driveway. Opened garage door, started a fire pit and waited. 1 1/2 hours later my DD spotted the little '**** staring at us that finally crawled into the bush next to the garage. We had the remote and closed the garage door and made s'mores to celebrate. Hopefully tomorrow the garage will be fine in the morning, hoping there wasn't another baby '**** sibling in their with it. Hope this one finds the family it got separated from that was in the tree last night.
What a wasted day.