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Posted on 06/19/2006 8:46:45 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Maybe... but I'm not sure he can get in there, unless he climbs it... the cat-proofing ~might~ keep him out too... And I'm not sure he'd venture that close to the house, the dogs probably would keep him a little wary.
Heh... no... We just thought that ad was hilarious a month ago and I forgot it was still there! I think I'll run tagless for a little while :~)
Well he must've climbed the field fence to get in the back forty. But I guess he could've dug under too. Those apples were probably what was drawing him. Maybe if you dump them outside the fence he'll stay out there and eat them. But then again, that may just draw more coons, so I don't know. My FIL had some guy come and set humane traps in his old chicken house because the coons were eating all his cow feed out there. He had it covered with a piece of metal and a cinder block on top and they managed to push it off anyways and get in the barrel. They're crafty little boogers. The guy who was trapping them was taking them to his property and setting them loose so they could hunt them with his coon hounds. I think he caught well over a dozen before he stopped, and I'm sure there's probably some down there again. There's just no feed down there right now.
Scandalous! ;o)
I gotta go trim horse feet this evening. Seeya later!
We set the field fence off the ground several inches. He could go under it. The coyotes do.
Originally, I set it up like that so it'd be easy to use the weedwacker to cut grass and berry vines from growing on it. Cutting against the mesh just uses up lots of cord. But now I regret that, because the coyotes can get in and out so easy.
MissTargets, I bought some of that for the barn down at the cabin and I love it. It is so much easier to pick up the poop,I'm not throwing half of the bedding out now.
I lost my RFD :'(
I'm sure glad you explained the turd - looked like a bear to me :)
Lost your RFD - that's a bummer.
Yeah. A bummer.
Those are cool pictures. I watched a show with The Aussie and some handicapped children but he seemed stiff and not sure what to say to them.
Yall still having fires? I saw somthing today on UW that was unusual. BRB.
me too... It had me thinking!
Wow... amazing. Is that really a storm-inspired tornado? Or a dust-devil from the heat?
Fire tornado
Finally, I had to link this photo of a fire tornado taken by wunderphotographer Photo5150. Some fires are able to create such a strong updraft with their extreme heat that the air rushing in at the surface to replace the air lifted creates a fire tornado. This is definitely the most awesome photo of a fire tornado I've ever seen!
Jeff Masters
Never seen that.
I was checking on the status of a tropical storm and saw this
It's really cool... errr.... really hot... well amazing.
So far, no fires near us - we got a lot of smoke yesterday, I believe from a fire in or near Auburn, CA.
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