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August 20 - I was just ready to eat my first

ears of corn today, and I found out that the

raccoons had hit my patch. They had taken

everything that was ripe, about two dozen ears.

I have plenty more, so I’m not worried, but I

plan to put an end to it. Some of my neighbors

have been complaining that their corn patches

have been hit, and they have lost every ear.

Some of them have been trapping or shooting

the raccoons. I can’t believe they’d be so mean.

They are such cute little animals. We had a

mother raccoon come to our house to eat cat

food out of our cat dish. She called in a purring

sound for her babies to join her. It was so cute.

I could never hurt one. There are better ways.

A person just has to be smarter than the

raccoons, is all I can say.

August 21 - I went to the farm and ranch

store and bought an electric fence charger, some

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