A Plague of Possums (O’possums)

This must be possum season. My wife saw a whole line of little possums walking up the driveway. The next day there was a baby in the bucket where compost is accumulated before dumping it in the compost pile. It got a soft landing in the compost bin. Instead of running away, it just buried itself into the pile. Saturday morning when I went to the greenhouse, there was a horrible stench, like something dead. There were three baby possums in the potting soil barrel. One was dead.

I turned the barrel over and left the greenhouse to give them some privacy. After about 15 minutes the two live ones had left. The smell was gone too. Evidently possums smell better dead than alive. The dead one was discarded and the barrel turned back up. Sunday morning there was 1 baby possum in the barrel. I turned it down to let him go, which he quickly did.

Yesterday afternoon, there was a young raccoon under the fig tree watching me pick the garden. He does not seem to have done any damage, so I rewarded him with some overgrown okra. Maybe that will placate him so that he doesn’t destroy the garden.

David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/