hey! congratulations on finding the coin. I'm surprised you didn't see it before now. So, this is a silver quarter! Cool. At least that's what the top link you listed is saying. That's even better. It's amazing how, at a minimum, something with the face value of 25 cents can actually be worth nearly 12 times that much.

You guys shoot raccoons and other varmints in Missouri, right? Set out traps, scare them off with whatever scares raccoons. I feel like you're kind of giving in to the inevitable here. There's precious ears of fresh garden corn to save!

How about the tomcat. Is it mean enough to take on the masked marauders?

Potatoes look good. Probably larger than ours.

We've grown cabbage, but I don't know enough about them to say anything definitive, but my first reaction is maybe, but probably not. Does it look like its maybe something like seeds or something?