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Raccoons, fungus and hoppity hops.

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Does anyone else remember these?

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We had a slight hill in our backyard when I was growing up and bouncing up and down it on these bad bears was one of my favorite things in the world.

Simple pleasure, simple toy … no computer, keyboard or screen needed.

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I watch The Last of Us.

Sorry Oregon. You had a good run.

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A few raccoon photos.

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Just because they’re cute.

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And abundant lately.

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😊

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At this point I think Keith could survive a nuclear blast and the radiated winter that follows.

Like cockroaches, but more fun.

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43 thoughts on “Raccoons, fungus and hoppity hops.”

  1. It’s 7:06 in the morning and I just got up – about 3 hours earlier than usual – in 1968 I was 22 – and those weren’t the balls I was bouncing on…also simple pleasures, simple toys.

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    3. Just wondering were you part of the counterculture? I”m a bit younger than you, but I was bouncing all over Canada and getting stoned. Best “coming of age” time in the hist9ry of humanity. We knew what true freedom was.

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      1. At 22, I was independent, self-sufficient – living alone in a nice apartment, with a job at a prestigious publishing firm, I was going to college at night, wholly financed by me, I spent my free time on picket lines/protest marches during the day and going clubbing at night. As for “sex, drugs and rock and roll” – I was all about the sex and the rock and roll, never did drugs. All-in-all I was a responsible adult tired of going to the funerals of the boys I grew up with.

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      2. At least you were doing whst you wanted to do. Not married with 3 kids already like so many of the girls I went to high school with. ✌

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  4. Maybe I’m glad I haven’t seen “The Last of Us” because I think an underground fungal network is totally cool. It turns what we think of as individual trees into a community sharing resources. Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a story “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” about a planet devoid of animal life, covered by forest that is a single sentient organism.

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  6. Hoppity Hops were called Space Hoppers over here. I have no idea why, but they provided me with a new and novel way of damaging myself at the time I seem to remember. As for Keith Richards, I think he will be mummified before he dies and why not? A proper, not to be copied, rock star…

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  7. I love the raccoon photos. They remind me of one night we were woken up to our cat screeching that “I’m in a catfight” sound. It was followed by our yellow lab barking. A raccoon family had chased the cat in out backyard. The dog chased the raccoons and their baby ended up in our pool. Angus, our lab, kept running around the pool barking and wouldn’t allow the baby to get out. The parents sat on our wall looking on, while the cat ran in the house.

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  8. The really ironic thing was the Charlie Watts, the one member if the Rolling Stones who didn’t do drugs, died while these other continue rocking along.

    We haven’t had a raccoon around here for years. They are adorable.

    BTW, in an unusual Friday post at my place tomorrow, there will be bunnies.

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  10. I had a hoppity hop too (though we called them hippity hops) and LOVED it!
    I also had a pogo stick and was really good at it, frequently doing more than 1000 jumps at a time. I want an adult one but know I’d kill myself. My sister used my pogo stick on the smooth garage floor and split her chin open – something like 10 stitches. Her fault… she’d been told never to pogo there!

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    1. You’re younger than me…. we didn’t do that. We had those giant plastic balls on the end of our ponytail holders. They could take an eye out if you weren’t careful.
      Good times.

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  13. That’s a fuzzy little coon! He’s definitely a cutie! I remember you posted about those bouncy things before because I took a picture of the ones we sell at work in the shape of horses and unicorns. That was a couple years ago and I don’t know offhand if we still sell them or not…

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  15. The guy I workout with, recently we were having a conversation about our love of Hoppity Hops. (he’s my age) Honestly, I thought they were called Hippity Hops and I would love to still hop around on one—-they were fun and they still look fun!

    One more thing to fear about Oregon aside from the homeless people running Portland. 😂

    Is it bad that I love those cute little trash bandits?

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