Karen,

Love the photos of the cows. When are you having your BBQ or opening a dairy?

We've had lots of critters in Orange County. Raccoons did their nightly run on our roof and were trying to tear up our shake shingles. We, unfortunatly, had to call out trappers, twice to "relocate" them. Hated to do it, but they just kept coming back night after night.

A possum family lived under a wooden walkway on our patio.

We were awoken very early one morning, several years ago, to some really eerie noises. Two huge coyotes were dining on our neighbors cat on our front lawn! We were horrified to see such a sight!

Bees swarmed and then made a nest in our kitchen wall - something out of a Hitchcock film. We had to enlist a beekeeper to come out at the crack of dawn, when the bees are dormant, to remove the hive.

A rat made a home for himself in our attic. He was getting in through the chimney.

We have a Japanese maple tree on our patio. Every year hummingbirds build their nests in the tree. They began to build a new nest just a few days ago. Beautiful to watch the whole process from building the nest to seeing the sweet babies take flight.