howdy neighbours

My desk is located next to a back window, and there is a tree about five feet away from where I sit to use my computer. Every night for the past three weeks I have heard an animal scrabbling up that tree. Occasionally I hear squalling and yelping as some interloper gets told off. I've lived in this city long enough to know what racoons sound like when they're pissed.

So this weekend I was sitting here and I spotted a mother raccoon and three or four little fuzzy not-quite-babies clambering up and down that tree. I called out to Axel and two of them sat up and stared at the window, trying to figure out where the voice was coming from.

Cutest. Thing. Ever.