oh what a lovely morning

You know those days when you really want to sleep in, but it's impossible, and everything in the universe is conspiring against you?

So it's 5am, Saturday morning. We are awoken by a large bang, scuffling and serious growling above our heads in the ceiling. We knew there were squirrels in the roof, and had called the ll to deal with it, but I have never heard a squirrel make a noise like that! It was racoons!

They continued to scuffle from time to time, and a huge murder of crows had gathered on neighbouring roofs and were cawing up a ruckus. We couldn't figure out how the crows could know what was going on, it was inside the roof, right? After about 10 minutes, John decides to bang on the roof with his golf club to get the racoons to stop. In the bathroom, his club went right through the ceiling! We both gasped and then 2 seconds later the ceiling crashed open with a giant racoon's hind quarters hanging out! Much swearing and running about ensued. We had a look and there was a big hole in the roof, with the sky shining down. Fudge!

I'm running about, trying to find the ll's phone number, and John is trying to find something to block up the hole. Meanwhile, our masked avenger is peaking through the hole from time to time, wanting to get back in. Crows still cawing, waiting for a death fall into the laneway and a tasty breakfast. John did a great job:



And promptly went back to bed. I, of course, can't go back to sleep now, and have heroic aspirations of doing my yoga set at this point. I managed to sit for a while, and then came into my office, to find our furry friend hanging out by the skylight.



Almost human-like, this little paw.



Cute AND destructive.



And s/he's back up the roof to get back in the hole. I hope the handy man comes over soon!

So there's nothing left to do but blog about it. One last, slightly strange anecdote: I rented Animals Behaving Badly last night, a dvd about animals invading human spaces! Can you believe it!?!