The Masked Theives

So last night as I was coming down the stairs from our bedroom I spotted a racoon outside coming up our walk; I quickly called Derek to check it out. This is the first live racoon we have seen since we have been here. (We have seen plenty not so alive on the side of the road.) When we went to unlock the front door to take a picture we scared it away into the back yard. So a couple hours later we are lying in bed & hear our trash lid close shut. Odviously, this little bugger is rummaging through our trash. So Derek decides he wants to get a video of this big guy, so he throws some shrimp out on the back deck as bait. While doing this he sees a baby racoon run away, now we know of two. Our plan at 11:30 is for me to go around to the side of the house & shine a flashlight on the racoon & get him out of the trash & hopefully to the backyard so that Derek can film him out the sliding glass door. Reluctantly I tiptoe outside, knowing at any moment a rabid racoon is going to come barrelling out of the bushes & attack me. I sneak around & I can't see him because it is pitch dark & I am holding the worlds smallest flashlight. I go inside & tell Derek that he is the man, & he should be the one going outside & I should be the one sitting inside with the video camera. Derek then goes outside & can't see him either. We stay up looking out the door for about 45 minutes & then decide it is time to go to bed. We climb into bed & a few minutes later hear the garbage can lid again. By this time it is 12:45 & we decide we could care less about the racoon & go to bed. Sorry no footage of our little buddy, although the shrimp were gone off the deck this morning.