Moratorium

 I've taken a couple day moratorium on catching rock squirrels while trying to figure out what to do next. Can't leave them all here and I don't want to kill anything though they have done significant damage to my trucks wires, cisterns, and even Kobae's house has some tunnels going down into it. Got to do something. So until I figure it out Jax and I are going hiking.

While generally things are going pretty well and bookings are climbing back up after last year's disaster as is most of Moab it appears we have one more critter issue. At the 9:30 pm critter feeding we have one raccoon, we call "Mother", is a problem. She's been coming to the porch for nightly feedings for several years. All critters have designated spots to eat. The raccoons own the left side of the porch, the skunks own the right, ringtails the rafters, gray fox the left side of the parking lot and red fox the right side of the parking lot. Jax keeps them in their places but Mother ignores the rules. She does whatever she wants. I can wack her with the broom and she doesn't care. She took a skunk hot dog and the skunk sprayed her three times in the face. She calmly took the hot dog, washed it in the water bowl, then went out in the parking lot to try and steal a fox hot dog. I'm constantly on her. It's draining. She's next after we figure out the rock squirrel issue.

Feeding the critters has always been fun. There are a few days where it's not so much.