Raccoons And Rat Tails

See those raccoons? I met them about a year and a half ago on one of my favorite nature trails. There are six of them altogether, and they chased me through that nature park for about a quarter of a mile. Yes, they were about as close to me as the picture makes them seem. They got even closer that day.

I have thought about these six raccoons at least once a week ever since this happened. I've been back to that nature park several times since then, but I've never seen another trace of the raccoons. Some of you remember them, but even more of you have come here since then. So I've been wondering, since I have a lot of down time right now, if maybe it would be a good idea to bring this long, strange story of the raccoons back as sort of a repost.

I'm not sure if I can even describe today what a shock it was to see these six raccoons coming towards me on the trail. I thought they just didn't see me at first, but when they looked up at me they came on even faster. I thought at the time there was no way I could outrun them, but I did it. It took me a quarter of a mile up and down steep hills and I had to run across a creek, but I did it.

And now since I'm not able to go anywhere like the place with the raccoons, I've had to find other things to do. One thing I've been watching very closely is Blogger's new automatic comment filtering feature. You may have noticed that I haven't been using the old letter code "Captcha" feature for comments anymore. That's because of the new filter feature. It has been catching those evil spammers like a charm for me so far.

I also was able to write a new piece of fiction over at Rat Tales! I waited to post it until a little while ago though. I have to stagger any writing I do so I don't feel too sick from the exertion, so it's been hard having to wait. But I held it back until I could mention it here.

Before any of you decide to go and look at it though, I have to warn you. I said before that my thoughts have been kind of dark. You may feel kind of sick after reading this new story. Some of you may even come away from this one with a view of me that's not so positive. It might drive you away forever. But I think it's a good humorous Halloween style post anyway. I had much worse things involuntarily floating around in my mind, and I didn't even want to think about them, much less turn them into a story.

So if you have a relatively strong stomach go and take a look. Don't worry though. This bit of dark humor is more funny than it is disgusting. At least I hope so.


Nature Center Magazine - We're still rolling along. There is always something new and fun at Nature Center Magazine. This place is actually an extension of The Everyday Adventurer. It features many things that I have felt I couldn't do here. And I also have been featuring some of my old posts from here.

A Squirrel And Me

It's time for me to try another post today! The pictures I'm sharing with you this time show the last squirrel I was able to photograph before my little accident. They're not the best, but I'm still proud of them because they're all mine. I don't have much more nature to talk about, so I'll give a bit of an update on my progress, and what I'm doing in the meantime.

I went to the neurologist, who told me I was going to need many more tests. I did discover that I can do almost nothing unless my eyes are open. I fall over whenever I close my eyes! I didn't realize it until the doctor had me try it! Now they want to do a bunch of tests on my brain. I always knew that one day someone would tell me I needed to have my head examined.

On the bright side, I was finally able to go out and begin my search for a new truck. My old one was damaged beyond repair. I went to many places without finding another truck that I want yet. I loved my old one, and any new truck has to be at least as good as that one. I still can't drive yet anyway, so getting it home is going to be quite another story.

So anyway, since I haven't been able to enjoy nature very much yet, and because the marbles in my head are still a bit out of alignment, my mood has become rather dark. I'm going to have to resist a lot of posts on this blog as long as I'm in that frame of mind because this is supposed to be a happy, carefree zone. So what can I do in the meantime?

I came up with a plan to use this dark frame of mind I'm in. Since Halloween is coming up anyway, I decided to use my twisted mind to work on more of my fiction stories. So while I'm not able to increase the number of posts here, maybe I can write a few stories for Rat Tales. Most of those are horror or dark humor anyway, so I'm in the perfect mood to write more.

I'm not sure how much I can write yet; mainly because when I posted my last story I also wrote a post here, and I've been doing things for Nature Center Magazine too. I knew by the end of that day that I had done too much, and I became sick for the next two days. I know now to pace myself a little better. But I still have several good ideas for all three sites. But I guess they'll just have to take turns for now.

Which site will I update next? I don't know. Maybe I'll leave a few comments on a few of your sites before then. That's every bit as fun for me. I know that most of you come here for the nature stories, so my next post here will be much more like my old stuff. You know, without all the whining(I'm kidding)! And my next story on Rat Tales will be designed to disgust. In the meantime I hope you like my little squirrel with that accusing glare that he did so well in the first photo, right before he turned and ran away.


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(Disclaimer: Some of this video promotion may be a complete lie, but the part with the screaming frog is true.)