Ridgetop Kids Play in the Sprinklers
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I awoke this morning to the sound of neighborhood kids playing in my lawn sprinklers.
My sprinkler system starts to cycle through the zones of my lawn at about 4:30 in the morning and completes the cycle around 7 a.m. So it was a little unusually to hear the sound of play so early in the morning.
I remember very clearly that playing in the yard while the sprinkler was on was a part of cooling off in the hot summer days of my youth, but it wasn’t so hot this morning (blessedly breaking the hot spell we’ve just survived); in fact, it was sort of cool. I was surprised that someone would be playing in the sprinklers given that reality.
So I got out of bed, went to the back window, and took a look.
Out back, I saw three young raccoons darting out from my photinia hedge, putting their front paws in the spray of water from the closest sprinkler head, then scampering back to the cover of the hedge. They were obviously fascinated with the water shooting out. They didn’t attack the sprinkler itself, but kept jumping toward the spray of water. This went on a few minutes until their mom ambled up through my back yard and got them moving again toward the green belt next to my lot.
It was the second time in a week that I’ve seen this group — one adult and four juvenile raccoons — foraging in my back yard and slowly moving through coming from the north and moving south into the green belt.
It would have been a great YouTube video had I been able to shoot one.
— Jeff
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
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