Posted on 06/11/2022 5:09:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Oh boy! We had a rescue that was part beagle, part black lab, and you are so right. That beagle came right out in her with the digging and the scaring.
Sweetest dog on the face of the earth. We lost her to cancer almost 9 years ago, and we miss her so! Our cats (also rescues) who were kittens back then adored her in every way, and they both thought she was their Mama. Sometimes she would look at us with those big brown eyes, and say, “Really? Do I have to keep this up?” We told her yes, and she obliged. Best dog ever. I know many of us have that kind. Man’s Best Friend, and then some.
I only feed black oil sunflower seeds in the bird feeders. As long as the squirrels keep clear, no harm, no foul, but as soon as they get around the feeders or climb the pole, fair game for the trap(s)! I put the traps right under the feeders so the ones gallivanting around the yard are in a safe zone. It never fails though, they just can’t leave the bird feeders alone.
Year before last, my whole shepherd’s hook metal feeder pole was bent over to the ground, feeders scattered/damaged. I figured maybe a bear or something had done it, but I set a bigger Hav-a-Heart trap just to see if anything turned up. Well, the culprit was a big ol’ raccoon - he actually tore some of the trap up. I was just glad it wasn’t a marauding bear. :-)
Wine for the whine - LOL!
No dogs in the house. I love my brother/SIL’s dogs & dogsit them, but always glad when that duty is over & I don’t have to make trips to let them out, etc. I keep them on the same schedule which means being over there at the crack of dawn & either hanging out after I feed them dinner until bed time, or I have to make a trip to put them to bed. They’re very sweet dogs - the one is my “fuzzy therapist” (when it’s too early for wine ...) and I just have the need to sit on the porch with some good doggy company and give her a good rub - this relaxes us both.
Cats are more self-sufficient, which I like. Food may be an “emergency” (daylight savings time changes were the pits, especially when they think you’re ‘late’!), but having to “go” isn’t, since they can avail themselves of the litter box.
Bears go after it, too.
In our rural NH community, people are advised to bring in their bird feeders by the end of March, when the bears are waking up from hibernation and are hungry.
None of mine is hard necked. I will keep an eye out and follow your advice thanks. I might even get a picture posted.
Bears do love bird feeders! We have friends/family who live in mountain ‘resort’ type areas & they are required to not have feeders out while the bears are out.
We get the very occasional bear through here - mostly young bears looking for their own territory. We think we caught sight of a small one on a game camera a couple of years ago, running by the garage. The bird feeder pole was bent over to the ground so I thought it was going to take something as large as a bear to do that. Evidently, a very fat old raccoon on the top of one of those poles can “ride” it to the ground! We do have the occasional bobcat on trail cam, but they don’t bother the bird feeders :-)
Soft neck doesn’t produce the scapes. You should read up on how to do them because it is different than the hard necks.
I do hard neck because we’re in the colder northern climate. And I like the HUGE cloves I get from them.
I see your homepage indicates you are from Michigan. You could do the hard neck garlics. I think they keep better and I like the big cloves because it’s less wasted time peeling them.
Music is a good variety, and I’ve done Romanian Red and Great Northern White. All perform well.
Ok thanks. I did not see any scapes last year and I was able to make two braids.
This thread 🧵 gets long quickly.
I mostly look at the pictures
I turned 89 a couple of weeks ago and looking forward to spending some time out in the big garden soon...
If you could braid it, it has to have been softneck garlic.
The stalks on hardneck will not bend.
Thanks for checking in, Tubebender! We miss you! :)
Daisy - although adorable - wasn't exactly too bright.
Every spring she would chase and eat EVERY flying insect
that she saw. Until she got her first bee or wasp.
Her stung snout would swell up like a grapefruit -
and she would spend the rest of the summer RUNNING AWAY
FROM every flying insect she saw. And she did that every
year of her life - she never learned. As I said - not too bright.
.
Okay - I could go on more about Daisy - buy there seems to be
a woman standing in the doorway mumbling something about
going grocery shopping. Talk at you later!
LOL! Yep. I’ve witnessed my share of bee-stung cat and dog faces through the years.
Have fun getting groceries. How much of your mortgage did you borrow against to do so? ;)
I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I’d rather see than be one.
... a small piece of the childhood trivia cluttering my brain.
:-)
We’re having a terrible katydid outbreak here in central Texas.
They are so loud at night that we have to raise our voices to talk and we hear a low roar when we’re inside the house.
We have a grasshopper infestation, too, and have developed a greater appreciation of Ancient Egyptians’ sufferings. ;-)
We’ll be covering the garden areas with garden mesh tomorrow because katydids don’t limit their feasting to the oaks but join the grasshoppers for garden salad.
It’s very dry right now so the armadillos are visiting at night and digging holes all over the place and moles got two of our squash plants.
Ahhhh, country living!
:-D
Lol!
No, Our invaders aren’t quite this big!
Oh, Gawd! I hate all exoskeleton bugs with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns!
My condolences!
Is that fishing bait?
Me, too, and thank you! :-D
When we walk through the field they fly in front of us like water spraying in fromt of kids kicking puddles after a rain.
If there was a a chocolate-covered Katydid market, I could make a fortune!
;-)
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