Peak baby opossum season runs February through September, which means we’re right in the middle of that window. If you see a dead opossum on the road, it’s entirely possible there are babies alive in her pouch or somewhere nearby. Stop and listen for soft sneeze-like sounds (that's the joeys calling for her). You might get an opportunity to rescue some baby possums.

Making content for YouTube is so strange. So often, I do videos that I’m really excited about sharing with others, and when I upload them, they just sit there and nobody watches them.

Then a year passes…

All of a sudden, hundreds or even thousands of people begin watching some video I did a year ago - a video that I’ve long since moved on from. My emotions and hopes are all on the video I posted yesterday! But what everybody is watching is the video I did a full year or more ago!

And the strangest thing about this is that I have absolutely zero way of knowing what people will latch onto. So many of the videos I do that I think people will love get no love at all. They will sit out there forever with no more than 90 viewers. But videos I do that I think nobody will care about inexplicably become big hits!

It’s a very odd way to work.

I throw my heart into almost all of the videos I put out there, but these two realities - the year long delay before a video gains traction, along with ...