I don’t want to put any food or salt too close to the condenser, because sometimes we get racoons
I love all of the wildlife that live in my neighborhood. My house is in a rural subdivision towards the outskirts of town. Despite living in a subdivision, my house is at the far back end of the complex. As such, my yard backs up to a wilderness preserve. If I want to go hiking in the woods, I can reach a trail that is roughly 30 yards away from the back end of my property line. Eventually my wife and I want kids, and having a large backyard with woods behind it is perfect for older children and young teenagers. One of the things that I love the most about this particular region is the animals that you can find. You don’t have to worry about alligators or Grizzly Bears in this state, although black bears are common even if they’re mostly harmless. We generally don’t have any poisonous snakes either, something I constantly feared whenever hiking in the southwest and the southeast. At any moment you could accidentally step on a rattlesnake and get bit. It’s not exactly the sort of environment you want to raise young children in. I put up a trail cam outside near my air conditioner condenser unit. About 10 feet from the trail cam is a salt block I put up for the white tail deer that come into the yard at night. Since the trail cam is right next to the HVAC condenser, I get a full view of the backyard. I don’t want to put any food or salt too close to the condenser, because sometimes we get racoons. I love those little buggers to death, despite how much others hate them. Still, I don’t need racoons climbing on my heating and cooling equipment. They’ll stick their little hands into the wiring and get hurt.