We have three traps with cantalope slices set in two different yards. This is the second groundhog we caught, two days ago, with the first the day before. This second one a baby compared to the humongous first one. Then today, another big one. There are at least one big one and four or five little ones to go. We take them out to a place in the woods about fifteen minutes from here, near Lake Monroe, hoping they will find one another.

Here’s today’s catch. Carisa, Ollie and Wyatt took this one, another big one, out there. I accompanied them, to show Carisa where we are letting them out. (Carisa has been gone for the past week, so this is the first time she had to transport.)

This groundhog, like the others, shot outta there so fast, there was no time to take a picture. As ever, we are hoping they will all find one another.

On our return, we saw another small groundhog, just as it was disappearing behind another neighborhood house. And my next door neighbor just told me that he saw a big one, going into his hole behind their shed, just a few minutes ago! So he set the two traps we put there, again.

Hmmm . . . so this means we have at least three adult groundhogs, besides the litter of five or six that we know about.

Well, one thing you can say for this situation . . . it’s bringing neighbors together in a new way, and all with common purpose, to get these critters to paradise, where they belong.

Our urgency, however, has to do with the fact that they had already munched on all the radishes and greens we were growing out back.

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