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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 wire, and some

posts with insulators. It cost me about 200 dollars. The

girl at the checkout asked if I was having trouble with cows

or a horses or something. When I told her it was for my

raccoons, she laughed and asked, “What is it for, really?” I

think she figured I was planning on corralling them and

branding them or something. I’m still not sure she

believed me when I said it was to keep them out of my

corn.

August 22 - I lost some more corn last night before I

got my fence up. I spent all day today putting it up,

clearing around the corn, planting posts and all. My

neighbor came to see what I was doing. “You know, it’s

cheaper to just buy corn,” he said. “Why, with all of the

stuff you bought, your corn is probably costing you 5

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