Yeah, I have a opossum too.  Haven't been able to get pictures of it though, since my Mother-in-law scared it away the other night while leaving.  (Come to think of it, I haven't seen her around either since then.)   I tend to be a little lazy sometimes and scrape a table scrap into the flowerbed right outside the door than walk out to the compost pile, so thats what it was doing next to the front steps at night. 

 

On the other hand one thing I don't have much of anymore is ants.    It's been terribly dry here all summer and the last hurricane (Rita) brought a few inches of rain that brought the ants up from underground where they had been hiding.  All kinds too, the little surgar ants, the big black ones, and of course fire ants.  Cleaning up hurricane debris is bad enough when it isn't covered in fire ants.  The fire ants had to go, and well I'm not going to miss the other ones either.  About $40 worth of ant poison and a couple of weeks made a huge difference.   I can walk in the yard barefoot again.