The trapper guy came back yesterday, must have been early morning. I was watching for him in the afternoon. I went out to check the traps and found they were reset and baited. He switched to Little Debbie's Honey Buns. A quick internet search told me that he was for sure targeting Racoons. Those things are irresistible to them. I don’t believe a groundhog would eat them since they are vegetarians. I tripped the first trap so it was closed. I moved the other trap closer to the groundhog’s egress to make it more likely that it would go in rather than bypassing it.
This morning I went out the trap I moved closer was tripped but we caught Casper again. Nothing in the trap but portions of the honey bun were ripped away from both traps. I called the guy this morning and wound up waking him up, but it was 8a and I didn’t care. I asked him to stop trapping for now and come back in the Spring. He said when you see the groundhog again call me and I will come back. Okay whatever just take your traps and be gone! I don’t know that I will call him come Spring that will largely depend if I can find someone else that will do what I want instead of going on a wild goose chase to try to make a buck off of me and wind up trapping & killing an animal that is not the target. I am so glad that were done for now. I’m pretty positive that it’s Raccoons that have been by that have been tripping the traps, if that is not it then it escapes me as to what else it could be.
Speaking of traps I checked all of the snap traps and still no more kills. My bedroom had the faint smell of that gasoline like odor last night, not exactly sure what that is about. Last night was the first night in a long time that I didn’t vacuum before bed to clean up Gator’s mess. She was sleeping and I think she didn’t feel the greatest so I wanted to give her a break. I had to wake her to give her medicine and then she wanted to be in my lap.
I got 2 wake up calls last night from her. 1 of which was just after 1a. I had to sit up for an hour before I could go back to bed. Finally back to sleep and I woke up around 5a to feed her again. Then back to bed for a bit and I knew that I would have to get up to get started. I closed my eyes to just enjoy the moment. I heard the loudest cat hiss that I’ve heard in a very long while. It sounded like it was right next to me. I looked around no Gator. She hisses just before she throws up. I checked on her and she was sleeping. I’ve got no idea where that came from but I know what I heard. I eventually got going and gave Gator her breakfast.
The day started off and I was just moving right along. Work is coming in steady but I am working one task at a time and taking my time at that. There is no reason to rush I’ve got all day long. Just took a quick break to check on Gator she is passed out in my room. I grabbed a soda and a quick snack then came back down. Prepping a couple documents for my eye doc visit on Saturday. I really hope that this goes well. I will find out soon enough if what the last doc told me was BS or if he was just pushing products & services to make a buck to have me support the fact he built a new office.
I am so exhausted from the past month of what has been pretty much non-stop work. I am happy my boss is away for a week as well. I am finding it difficult to recover from being overwhelmed. I can breath but there are times when it feels like I can’t catch my breath (figuratively speaking). It seems like no amount of rest is enough and the weekends just aren’t long enough. Hopefully, all of this will soon subside as we start getting more into the end of the year.
We had our big meeting that Management wanted. It was much to do about nothing. Were opening another office next year that was the BIG news. It sure looked like they were going to ask us to come back for 5 full days but thankfully that didn’t happen.
Looking forward to what I hope is a chill rest of today and the same vibe for tomorrow as we ease on in to the weekend. I can’t wait to shut off my phone, that just makes me feel so good for some odd reason.
Hope you are having a great day!
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