Suburban Plowboy
Platinum Member
I'm not Canadian. I pay half my income in health insurance like a free man.
Moving a young raccoon
- Thread starter Sigarms
- Start date
- Views: 23913
OP
Sigarms
Super Member
Apologies. The hunters with their dogs were stupid enough to wake me while I was sleeping in my bed by going right behind my house in my field...So the coon hunters were sleeping in your bed?
Sorry, couldn’t resist, it's just funny to me…..
And yes, that was a pretty funny
BackRoad
Veteran Member
^^^^ Glad that got cleared up!
And for the record. I live in the 'Bama part of PA. That "Wellsboro" mentioned by Mr. Sigarms is 20 minutes away.
There are lions, tigers and bears - oh yes, and pumas, black widows, rattlesnakes...and rabid coons.
It's a terribly frightful place, and there is no need for anyone to drive through here, let alone even think about moving here!!!
And for the record. I live in the 'Bama part of PA. That "Wellsboro" mentioned by Mr. Sigarms is 20 minutes away.
There are lions, tigers and bears - oh yes, and pumas, black widows, rattlesnakes...and rabid coons.
It's a terribly frightful place, and there is no need for anyone to drive through here, let alone even think about moving here!!!
shooterdon
Elite Member
- Joined
- Nov 24, 2012
- Messages
- 3,574
- Tractor
- 2019 LS XR4140 HST Cab; 2020 Kawasaki Mule SX; 2021 Bad Boy 54" ZT Elite
How the death of a raccoon named Conrad once united Toronto — and may bind us still
Every Torontonian has a raccoon story. But Conrad, memorialized Tuesday on the ninth anniversary of his death, may be the most memorable.
www.thestar.com
OP
Sigarms
Super Member
It really is a beautiful area, and I had a good kayaking buddy originally from that area that talked about the area, I was just amazed at how much time I spent on I-80 driving to my parents from the west side of I-79 in the state and never came across it.
It took a trip to the Finger Lake region in NY with my son 20 years later to drive through it. When I kayaked living in eastern Pa and went up to Canada and "western upstate NY" (from Watertown west to Lake Placid area), I always went up I-81 north.
Heck, even driving from and to State college in school, I never really knew where Wellsboro was.
Had to look again. Although I thought NC would be more populated than PA (I was wrong), I thought PA would be a bigger state than NC. I was wrong yet again. Was trying to make an old "long lost" cousins funeral in Hatboro this past weekend, and couldn't due to local obligations, but was surprised the drive time was longer and further vs my parents old place in Schuykill county off I-81. Figured it would be shorter being in Southern Pa (Hatboro), but it was 50 miles longer and it generally took me 8-9 hours to get to my dads place, and being Hatboro was around Philly, no clue of the added drive time with traffic going 81 because I avoid 95 like the plague.
Last edited:
dstig1
Super Member
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2010
- Messages
- 5,016
- Location
- W Wisc
- Tractor
- Kubota L5240 HSTC, JD X738 Mower, (Kubota L3130 HST - sold)
As a western NY brat, you aren't even close. Lake Placid is Adirondacks and not even close to western NY. That is like 8 hrs east of were I grew up. Finger Lakes is central NY, not Western too.
And yes we used to call PA Pensyltukcy, too.
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2011
- Messages
- 6,030
- Location
- Philadelphia
- Tractor
- John Deere 3033R, 855 MFWD, 757 ZTrak; IH Cub Cadet 123
Benny Franklin is rolling in his grave.
OP
Sigarms
Super Member
You're correct, I apologize. Any decent whitewater in NY is generally north above I-90 and east of I-81.
That said, my term "western" from from getting my bearings in NY was from "upstate NY", where most people from outside the state or NYC was the Catskills.
As much as I loved NY, I'd rather move back to Pa, and that's never happening LOL
BackRoad
Veteran Member
Coon came back and started raiding the feral cat food feeder again...and as mentioned previously, and thankfully, it's been more than 3 years since we've seen coons.
I told (no, kindly asked!) my wife to count to 30 and then open the backdoor to the deck where the coon was heads down in the cat feeder.
I slipped out the frontdoor with the 12 gauge and went around to the side of the house to wait in ambush...27...28...29...30...
It came running around the corner of the house and then paused to look back to see if my wife was following...then it saw me and took off running again, and that critter was fast!
Homeowner: 1
Raiding Coon: 0
I told (no, kindly asked!) my wife to count to 30 and then open the backdoor to the deck where the coon was heads down in the cat feeder.
I slipped out the frontdoor with the 12 gauge and went around to the side of the house to wait in ambush...27...28...29...30...
It came running around the corner of the house and then paused to look back to see if my wife was following...then it saw me and took off running again, and that critter was fast!
Homeowner: 1
Raiding Coon: 0
Last edited:
I hope that you remembered to cry afterwards.