Thursday, January 19, 2012

Team Hawkins=2 Raccoons=0

  So, Jack and Josh were working to clean up the debris after 2 days of not being able to use the tractor due to mud.  Suddenly a dog (with no collar, but with blue painted front nails and red painted back nails), came up to and into the house...sniffing.  It went right up the stairs.
  Jack and Josh kept working until they heard the dog going crazy...barking in one spot.  They looked for the dog...and couldn't find it.  Finally, by sound, they discovered the dog was between the dining room roof and the dining room (sw downstairs room) ceiling.  So, Jack and Josh went to town on the ceiling trying to find the dog and what it was barking at.  Jack found a fur ball and had Josh take a shot at it...knowing the bullet would go through the wood in front of the coon.  Josh got down to reload and by the time he reloaded, they couldn't spot the coon.  They had been working to pull out a wall cabinet insert.  But there were so many spots around the area that a coon could fit. So, Jack took the sawzall and started just cutting out the cabinet...to have a better view.  As he was cutting, the coon ran past where he was cutting...so he went after it with the sawzall....but missed.
  The coon appeared to have gone to the top of the chimney.  So, they stuck something in the chimney to feel if it was down in there...and felt a squishy give.  In an attempt to shoot it, Jack pulled out some brick down lower and cut out a spot to shoot through...only to discover the "squishy feel" was insulation piled up in the chimney--not a coon.
  So, Josh and Jack started pulling more plaster from the ceiling and other areas, trying to spot the coon.  Finally they saw it tucked back in a corner and Josh was able to take a shot at it.  But it'd been shot in such a tight spot that Jack had to really reach up and around in the ceiling to even get a hold of it to pull it out.



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