Invasion!

Toby and I went to Chocorua at the beginning of the week for a few rainy but idyllic days.

Idyllic, that is, once we got over the shock of seeing our kitchen door look like this--clawed and chewed at.

And the back porch suffering the same damage.

The culprit:  a large porcupine (photo by Alan Phenix who says this guy sleeps on the rafters in our barn and chews our house at night.  He's tried to catch him but, so far, no luck).  That orange thing in his mouth isn't his tongue, it's his teeth.