Originally Posted by Retired Fire Chief

Seems our 8 year old toilets poop out at the same time!

Originally Posted by Neesie

WHOA! That's a LOT of cappuccino! Any chance we could get one of those machines, for down here in the hole???

Cream scones and cappuccino . . . . Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Originally Posted by dreamer2009

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Originally Posted by Neesie

Any mystery solvers, among us? Well, the night before last, I put out three (very, very ripe) bananas, over by the tree line (well away from the house, by the far birdbath). Figured the raccoons might like them. I put out the motion sensor night camera, to 'catch' them. Yesterday morning, the bananas were gone. I checked the videos on the camera and the very first was of a cat, sauntering up to the birdbath, for a drink. The bananas were already gone! They were good-sized bananas . . . and THREE of them, so how could something have sneaked up and taken them, without triggering the camera??? Birds aren't large enough to trigger it . . . but there's no way small birds could have carried off three bananas. DH suggested a snake. Now I have this image in my head, of a snake swallowing and slithering off, with three big bananas, in his belly! Seriously, this is very, very weird!

Originally Posted by dreamer2009

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Originally Posted by PenniF

Not sure what part of Texas you're in Neesie...but it's been a little chilly here in north TX for snakes to be out at night...ground hog...or... rats??.....which are everywhere so no one needs to say YUK !!! Would they trip the camera or be slinky enough / low to the ground enough to hid in the grass??

Originally Posted by Neesie

I'm at the southern end of 'central' TX . . . or the top of 'south central' TX. Our weather is still flip-flopping around, between 70's highs and 40's lows.

I'm thinking I need to put out an entire big bunch of bananas (or maybe a huge watermelon?) and see how our phantom carries that off, without being seen!

Originally Posted by Neesie

I'm at the southern end of 'central' TX . . . or the top of 'south central' TX. Our weather is still flip-flopping around, between 70's highs and 40's lows.

We do have mice and rats, as this is the country - lots of wooded area around. I doubt a rat would be big enough to trigger the camera . . . but I just can't imagine a rat carrying off a whole banana (assuming he had two friends, to carry off the other two bananas). Dh suggested maybe the camera batteries are getting weak. Guess that's possible but it did catch a cat and later, a raccoon. Last night, I put out a blueberry bagel (in several pieces) and the same thing happened - no trace of what took it (did catch a cat or raccoon running past, though). I'm thinking I need to put out an entire big bunch of bananas (or maybe a huge watermelon?) and see how our phantom carries that off, without being seen!