Why are so many of my high school classmates using their wedding pictures as their facebook icons? They're in their thirties and from a small town, wouldn't most of them have gotten married a decade ago? Is it the only good picture of themselves they have?

That and Grand Canyon photos. I keep thinking they're near me, but no, it must be just family vacation photos.

We're having awesome cold grey weather! It refilled our rain barrels and everything, whoo.

I also could call tiny green machine Poison Ivy.

Does it come with sex pollen? Isn't your iPod named Tim? That could lead to some embarrassing situations.

iPod should be named Lorne, obviously.

holy fuck! I'm sitting here in the dark watching Band of Brohthers and suddenly hear this charming chirping and cooing, and since it wasn't the cats, sent me into a panic as I dashed around the cluttered apartment to turn on the lights and get to the window before whatever the fuck it was clambered in through the open window.

I dared a peak and caught two adorable racoon ears right below the window. And of course the windows suck so the panicked slam shut didn't quite happen. Those are evil little bastards!

I don't think I'll be building kitty steps to the dining window anymore.

Seriously, I've lived in the middle of a state park for twenty five years and not had this kind of problem with wildlife. Even with the fisher cats and bears and coyotes.

Now there's sneezing deer and racoons serenading my window. I'll come home one day with hoofprints on the cats and long-clawed pawprints sliding down the walls and my pantry ransacked.

am I the only one who kinda loves the ridic boy band Wendy's commercial?

I was considering Kermit, but I also like Marvin! Or maybe Oscar the Grouch.

Oscar's grouchy sister is called Grungetta. Emmett has a rare Grungetta plush figure.

Julie, when I lived up in the mountains, the raccoons were audacious. They'd come up to a stump outside my window at night, piled on top of each other, and work their little finger through the hole in the screen and thoroughly freak out Thimble, my dad's cat (he was on sabbatical, we joined him in the summer but got him a cat to keep him company when we weren't there.) They broke in to many a house and bear secured trash can, shared food with cats and dogs, ate leftovers and licked PB off my fingers... (rabies, I know, I know, but when a raccoon bolts from under the house between your ankles as you are spreading PB out for them and grabs your hand, you do not jerk back. Sharp teeth.)

Raccoons are clever little creatures, really curious and would happily move into your home and raid the fridge and take over.

Raccoons are clever little creatures, really curious and would happily move into your home and raid the fridge and take over.

So they're like college boys.

EXACTLY! They even have noisy sex that disturbs the neighbors! (Though at dad's place, it was the skunks under the master bath that did that. Skunk sex is smelly.)

my question is, can they jump?