Raccoons In My Attic

Raccoon and friend out for lunch

I have this shack I have been renting out and found out today that the renter has been feeding a couple of 'Coons that have been hanging around.

He called today to let me know that the roof was leaking. I went over to have a look and in the living room he had a pail collecting the water. It did not smell like water to me so I too a closer sniff and it smelled like piss. He was beside me when I did this and I said something like I think it is piss, have you heard any noise or anything in the attic? He said he thought there was some raccoons up there because there was a hole in the overhang. I asked him how long did he think they had been up there and he said a couple of Years! He has lived there for 5 years.

I happen to know that Raccoons are not "clean" animals everyone thinks. When I was a teenager my Dad had a trap line, so I learned a bit about various critters. 'Coons are clean in the sense that they use the same area for a latrine, not just dumping all over the place, but they are not like cats, they do't bury their scat. And they have the runs (semi liquid shit) all the time.

I have not been in the attic and really don't plan on going up there. Two years worth of shit! He said he heard water running (probably one of them having a piss) and then his cat went over to where the "leak" appeared and was looking at it. He set up the pail but not much more came down. This is in the living room, The ceiling has cracked and now liquid comes through.

Poor little guy

My plan:

I am going to make a patch for the hole in the overhang and have it fitted and ready to put up.

I have told him to call me when he has the 2 raccoons out o the porch for dinner. They show up every couple of days he says.

I will hustle over and plug the hole, locking them out. After that I will tape and fill the crack in the ceiling and paint it.

End of repair If that is not suitable I will ask him to move out so I can pull the ceiling down and get the attic cleaned up.

Of course I will not be doing any clean up but have to say this to get him out. I have had the property re-zoned to commercial and plan to sell it for development. It is a 75 year old 2 bed + basement between two warehouse/office buildings. The last house on the block. No renovations needed!

I feel sorry for the Coons, the female (a little assumption here) is probably pregnant - they hatch around March. She will have to move to a new place now but better now than in a couple of months with 4 or 5 kittens. Right?

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My new site is called Investment Banking Now

See the nice looking bar there?

Gold Camp, near Granite, Colorado 1954 

I saw This article regarding gold panning in California and thought some of you would be interested in it.

I Have decided to start a new site for people who are at the beginning of their career. What I mean is, people who just graduated high school and are thinking about university or college.

Personally I think that at the age of 18 or 19 you are too young to be even considering where you are going to be doing for the rest of your life, but that seems to be the norm.  My feeling is that the norm is heavily influenced by the schooling system, particularly colleges and universities.

Without all of high school graduates coming in what would the good old tenured professors do?  Sit around in their tweed jackets and smoke pipes?  I hope that it is tobacco in that pipe. What would be your guess?

I figure by the time you're 30 or so you have probably figured out what you would like to be doing for the next little while, maybe not 30 years but 1/2 that anyway.  Don't be surprised If you change your mind a couple more times. Life can be considered a career.  I think that life is just something you do because you have it.  Hopefully you'll be doing what you like to do and then you will do it well and be considered a "success". Having fun is a career. Make the most of it while you are young. It gets harder as you rack up the years.

Again, I'm not sure that you will agree with that, but it worked for me.  Do what you feel like doing, and you will do it well.  If you do it well you will be happy and I think happiness is the most important thing in life.

Anyway, I digress.  My new site is called Investment Banking Now I hope you will find time to have a look and maybe tell your friends. I need the visits and you may see something that interests you.

Thanks,   Del

Here is the gold panning article - 

Gold panning spikes in Auburn State Recreation Area rivers

Gold seekers are welcome but need to abide by park rules

By: Gus Thomson, Journal Staff Writer

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AUBURN CA - Rivers in the Auburn State Recreation Area have been getting a workout from pans and hands. Supervising Ranger Scott Liske said that he’s witnessed a spike in panning activity on the Middle Fork and North Fork of the American River in the 30,000-acre canyon park near Auburn. It’s a mini-Gold Rush that Liske said could be because of the increased price of gold or the impact of the Discovery Channel TV show “Gold Rush,” formerly known as “Gold Rush Alaska.” “I’ve never seen as many people as I have in the last six months looking for gold,” Liske said. “I haven’t heard of anyone striking it rich or finding a big nugget but it has been a good time to look, with pleasant temperatures and lower-than-normal river levels.” The Auburn State Recreation Area welcomes recreational gold seekers and has established guidelines to prevent stream bank erosion and prevent degradation of the wildland resource. And Liske also cautions that regulations for the Folsom State Recreation Area, which adjoins Auburn State Recreation Area lands south of Auburn, are different. Panners should know where the boundaries are and find out the Folsom State regulations before moving into that area, he said. “For hands and pans, it’s pretty well open year-round in the washed gravel bars,” Liske said. Metal detectors are allowed but their use comes with some restrictions, including a ban on their use in the area west of Highway 49 in El Dorado County. That area of the park is closed to the use of metal detectors. Metal detectors also may not be used in an area with historic or prehistoric resources. If any items with historic or prehistoric pasts are found, they cannot be collected or taken, according to Auburn State Recreation Area rules. Auburn’s gold-seeking supply store – Pioneer Mining Supplies – has noticed the increase in canyon panning interest. The store’s Frank Sullivan said that the local recreation area’s rivers aren’t alone as a mild winter has exposed areas of streambeds not normally available for gold searches. “The Bear River Campground (near Colfax) is extremely busy, too,” Sullivan said. “It’s a lot of rivers – the Yubas, the Feather. All are extremely low so they’re working all of them.” Sullivan said the price of gold and the popularity of TV shows showing people making good money has provided a jump in gold fever and business. “When they wrote that guy a check (on “Gold Rush”) for $70,000, for a week’s work, that really spiked interest,” Sullivan said. Liske said that regulations in Alaska, where filming for the TV show takes place, are far different from those in California because of much tougher environmental regulations designed to prevent erosion. Prospective gold seekers should make themselves aware of local regulations and determine whether the land they’re on is open to public prospecting, he said. Two men – one from Foresthill and the other from Auburn – were charged last month with felony gold dust theft after allegedly using metal detectors on land owned by a mining operation. Copies of rules and regulations for the Auburn State Recreation Area are posted on the park’s website, Liske said. Copies are also available at the recreation area office on Highway 49.

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