Fred's Texas cousin Joe Don

My boss lives in Cincinnati, OH (WKRP!) in a 109 year old two-story that she and her husband have restored. She has some kind of a building in her back yard where her "office" is located. There is a gang of raccoons that terrorize the neighborhood, and they also have possums. A particularly large, scruffy one hangs out in her yard, which she has nicknamed "Fred." In her daily updates, she not infrequently refers to Fred's activities.

I have been watering my flower beds this evening, and when I went out the back door to move a sprinkler just now, there was an animal on the walkway to the alley – at first glance I thought it was a cat as there are a number of feral cats in the neighborhood, and there’s a grey one who frequents my yard. Then I realized it was a possum! Sucker was almost as big as my cat Stormie. He/she didn’t seem particularly afraid of me and didn’t even move until I started toward him. I knew we had them in the north part of town, but as many years as I’ve lived here, I’ve never seen one until tonight. Son of a gun! -- And this after that stunning conjunction of the moon and Venus -- a "smiley" moon with Venus right beside it -- we had just after dark this evening.