Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 7

Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 7

READING ALOUD CHAPTER 7 TABASCO THE SAUCY RACCOON Well, what’s Tabasco my Saucy Raccoon been up to in chapter 7? We are at our Okanagan home on Trout Creek and it is Christmas, a snowy Christmas. On Christmas Eve Tabasco did what lots of people do – he...
Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 4

Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 4

THERE’S A RACCOON IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD When the Stanley Park Zoo in Vancouver gave me Tabasco, an orphan raccoon to look after, I was living in an apartment at the bottom of Simon Fraser University while working on my graduate degrees. (The reason I left...
THERE’S A NAKED WOMAN IN MY WATER PIPE

THERE’S A NAKED WOMAN IN MY WATER PIPE

I have had SEALS IN MY SLEEPING BAG and RACCOONS IN MY PARKA, now there’s a NAKED LADY IN MY WATER PIPE. I found her shortly after I bought my home on Nanoose Bay. Like many of my life experiences, I bought this Garden of Eden on the spur of the moment, just like I...
Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 3

Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 3

THERE’S A RACCOON IN MY APARTMENT When the Vancouver Zoo in Stanley Park asked me to look after Tabasco after her mother was shot for raising her family in the attic of a Vancouver house, I was living on the third floor of a no-pet apartment below Simon Fraser...
Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 2

Tabasco the Saucy Raccoon, Chapter 2

THERE’S A RACCOON ON MY PROMOTION TOUR Chance and coincidence play big parts in my life. Tabasco wasn’t my first raccoon orphan. Many years earlier, I was about to go on a little rubber boat ride for thousands of miles between Victoria, British Columbia and the...