{"id":8919,"date":"2016-09-01T21:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2016-09-01T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:22:17","slug":"sickish-raccoon-death-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=8919","title":{"rendered":"Sickish! Raccoon Death! Mission!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started having kind of a scratchy throat yesterday.  Been sneezing more than normal and feel tired.  I rested a little extra this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say I feel upper 80s.  I&#8217;m usually over 100%!<\/p>\n<p>Cleaned and refilled my hummingbird feeders.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-X9fFTFq\/0\/M\/IMG_2098-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-GR6kM56\/0\/M\/IMG_2099-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Met up with Kathy on a short break for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>On the way there, I saw a dead raccoon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-2Ct962K\/0\/M\/IMG_2101-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nI was overwhelmed by grief!  Astonishing how attached I&#8217;ve gotten to &#8220;my&#8221; &#8216;coons over the last few months.  I get to watch them almost every night with my red light.  <\/p>\n<p>After I ate with Kathy, I went back and got the raccoon body.  Buried her in my back yard.  Sad.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-FKBKHbR\/0\/M\/IMG_2102-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just looked outside and saw two!  I call them sisters.  I also have one big Mama &#8216;coon and one that has a hurt left rear leg.  But the two girls always come together.  I hope I see all my regular visitors tonight!<\/p>\n<p>Came home to fold and stuff the newsletters for this month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-dTW8gcb\/0\/M\/IMG_2103-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nGot them in the mail.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-6WQ2N7j\/0\/M\/IMG_2105-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then over to Walmart to do the shopping.  I&#8217;d say &#8220;weekly&#8221; shopping except I seem to go to Walmart nearly every other day for something.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-PQh9R7C\/0\/M\/IMG_2106-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gassed up my car.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-kRm6bTv\/0\/M\/IMG_2107-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Worked with the kids at the mission.  Not too many. I&#8217;m glad, since I&#8217;m definitely not 100%.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-MH5xtWk\/0\/M\/IMG_2108-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ate supper with Jesse. Always good!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-mXTRZDD\/0\/M\/IMG_2109-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Admin duties now.  K is already asleep.<\/p>\n<p>I have Penelope coming over tomorrow at 10:00am.  Good times!<\/p>\n<p>What does this look like to you?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-9116-and-Dead-Raccoon\/i-skRsd3G\/0\/M\/IMG_2110-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started having kind of a scratchy throat yesterday. Been sneezing more than normal and feel tired. I rested a little extra this morning. I&#8217;d say I feel upper 80s. I&#8217;m usually over 100%! Cleaned and refilled my hummingbird feeders. Met up with Kathy on a short break for lunch. On the way there, I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}