Animal raid

Maggie came running up to me this afternoon saying, "Mommy come look...the tomato plant has gross stuff all over the frog cover (egress window cover)". I went back to look and discovered that my poor tomato plants had been raided by an unknown assailant! I presume it was a raccoon, but can't know for sure. Mags was right. There were 6-8 tomatos that had giant bites or claw marks taken out of them, and it apparently had a tomato party on top of the egress window cover. The cover had dried on tomato seeds all over it, and there were foot prints in the dust. I asked Maggie if she thought a raccoon had done it and she said, "Yes...or maybe an elephant or a zebra or a horse." Pretty cute. We discussed the fact that it probably wasn't any of those things due to the fact that none of them have permanent residence in Woodbury, and that zebra's have feet like "this" (made a fist), hooves, yes...and that didn't match the footprints in the dust. : ) So, she's settled on the fact that is must have been a raccoon and hasn't stopped talking about it since.

On a totally different note, Maya rode her tricycle yesterday. She rode up and down the street and this was the first time she's gone more than about 3 feet at any one time. Yeah Maya!