I guess Mother Nature decided that today's weather wasn't miserable enough

[Siwsan]

5. I put some nice comfy beds and pillows on the deck for them. Guess what I was doing at 2:30 this morning

Gathering up the beds and pillows!!

The number keeps changing. Two regulars, Rhys and Snowdon, have gone missing.

I'm starting to wonder if someone in the neighborhood is putting out something to get rid of the groundhogs and maybe some of the ferals are getting sick. That's kind of what I suspect happened with Pembroke. He was just strong enough to come back home before he died.

Groundhogs can really mess up lawns and veg gardens. I know that one of my former neighbors would put out food laced with arsenic. Now, I have zero use for groundhogs but I'd never even consider going that route. I had one dig massive holes in my front yard. I prefer to deter them so I scooped the litter boxes and deposited the lumps into the burrow. And I could be completely off base - it's just something that I think is a possibility,