About a Week Ago

Kobae finished his 6pm meal on the porch and instead of walking back across the parking lot to his house he went inside the lodge into the laundry room and didn't come out. In time I close the front door and Jax and I went to bed. At some point Kobae decided he wanted to go home but the front door was closed. He rammed it over and over, broke the frame even. Knocked all the vacuumn cleaners in the corner over, moved a couch around, knocked the lamp off the table, and knocked over a five drawer cabinet. I pulled him away from the front door so I could open it and he went across the parking lot to his house. So the next night he slept in the front door so I couldn't close it. I came out at 2am and he was gone. I walked over to his pen and he somehow in the darkness of night found his way back over to his house and was sitting outside. Now I leave the front door open at night. I use to leave it open anyway but the baby raccoons, there are eight of them between mothers tip the bird baths and trash cans over every night. I put four of the cans in the garage and bring one into the kitchen. I sweep Kobae's walkway so I can see his tracks when I come out in the morning and know he's gone back in his house. Then I lock his gate but three days ago he escaped and I had to shore up his fence with more poles. He's a lot of work and expensive food wise.

Now we're getting smoke from fires down south.