First the sad news, we were working outside today and found another baby that the racoon made dead.
Also, the photos around their house are cropped tight because the other poor baby is on the roof of the house and mama won’t let me near to remove the baby.
It’s hard to watch them run and play, I guess, it’s nature doing it’s thing but sometimes mother nature is a you know what.
And now the daily babies photos.
The last one is with mama.
There are 2 black and 2 brown/gray.
I like raccoons but god damn leave them babies alone 
We love all the animals and normally don’t care if a racoon wanders through and eats some of the snacks we leave out but nature is a cruel thing some days.
It doesn’t help that I’m a camera nut and put out all the cameras.
I also hate it when anything makes my wife cry.
That being said it’s amazing just sitting on our little balcony watching them start exploring.
I’m also working on the garage with power tools, mama squaked at me and then she just layed on her balcony watching me and the babies.
Oh, dear! Someone’s squee meter has asploded!
I’m so very sorry. 
This may be the last photos.
Mama is leading them to the new nest but I can’t tell if she took all of them.
That one time I observed a raccoon in the wild? Not a pleasant experience. It was at a remote work site in the Santa Susana test area. The raccoon was heading my way down an aisle in a large outbuilding, slow-motion ambling toward a food bowl that was meant for the building’s mouser kitty. Eerie, the way it moved. The raccoon’s size (~2’ long less the tail; big round body) was intimidating enough to make me backoff. Yep, I was a little scared. Then the mouser showed up. It sped off when it saw the raccoon at the food bowl. After finishing my business at the site, I saw the raccoon again (or was it a different one) outside the outbuilding. It popped up from behind a bin on the loading dock that I had parked my car in front of. We looked at each other, me from inside the car. That, and its behavior in the building, made me wonder if the site employees had been feeding that raccoon. Not always the best thing to do when dealing with wild animals, although everyone at that site (and I also, whenever I visited up there) happily fed the friendly chipmunks and ground squirrels there. Great times.)
Together with the least pygmy squirrel of Asia, the African pygmy squirrel is the world’s smallest squirrel measuring about 12–14 cm (4.7–5.5 in) in total length and just 15–18 g (0.53–0.63 oz) in weight, which is less than a typical house mouse.
The first picture made me think “fuzzy axolotl”.
Axolotl gills are sort of fuzzy, too.
Very much my kind of squizzle-table!
We were visiting/exploring downtown Golden, CO and we caught sight of two squirrels. The one on the ground was the 2nd one
Squizzle ergonomics appear to have been taken into account. Nice sizing there.
I know someone who swears he was mugged by a raccoon in SF when coming home to his flat through side-access alley. Apparently the beastie was standing 4’ tall rummaging through one of the trash bins and saw opportunity walking its way.
And it didn’t even have to disguise itself with a mask!
Yesterday morning I saw momma gathering up grass, she was filling the house they vacated after the raccoon incident.
She brought the babies back. There are 2 brown/gray and 2 black.
They were having a ball today running and playing.
We’re back on racoon watch but they’re big enough now to escape if they’re in danger.
I wonder why they moved back? I guess squirrels know how to squirrel.
