➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[debid]

Cherry tomato plants have flowers and the beets and pole beans are coming up! Peas are starting to make tiny tendrils.

 

[Molpet]

We don't leave food out at night around here. The food dish goes on the deck right next to the house while my coffee brews and the dish gets brought in at dusk when I'm cleaning up the after-dinner mess.

Otherwise, we're feeding every critter within a mile or five. And I know because I've collected the dish with a broom in hand to fend off an opossum and raccoons back before we learned.

I've watched some YouTube videos on making raccoon-proof feeders. It's essentially relying on a cat being able to jump and raccoons/skunks/opossums being rather limited in that regard. The one thing that strikes me as a design flaw is that none of them seem to try to make the pole itself climb-resistant. I'd trim the 4*4 post down enough to slide a piece of pvc drain pipe over it so the suckers can't easily get up there to try and reach the skirted edge.

I haven't built one, though. Mostly because I fear that even with every other trick, foxes can jump as well as a cat and I'd still be feeding them.

Umm coons go up and down my down spout to the house roof... were going in the attic through the power vent.
They also jump from tree limbs between trees. They jump pretty far when I have a pitch fork too

 

[Molpet]

My spinach has sprouted

 

[debid]

Umm coons go up and down my down spout to the house roof... were going in the attic through the power vent.
They also jump from tree limbs between trees. They jump pretty far when I have a pitch fork too

The have good horizontal jumping distance, not so good on the vertical. So, yeah, the idea is to put it somewhere pretty open so going up is the only option and then make that hard to do.

They put metal skirting around the platform part that the raccoon has to reach around. So, it's holding onto a wooden post with its feet while trying to reach around. It just seems so obvious to me that making that post harder to hold onto would help.

 

[R2elk]

My spinach has sprouted

The Johnny Jump Ups are blooming and volunteer lettuce is up as well as the asparagus.

 

[Molpet]

Article on big food https://www.businessinsider.com/big-food-corporations-are-making-the-world-fat-2012-12

 

[debid]

Article on big food https://www.businessinsider.com/big-food-corporations-are-making-the-world-fat-2012-12

I couldn't even finish it, it all makes me so angry.

 

[Sara L]

Article on big food https://www.businessinsider.com/big-food-corporations-are-making-the-world-fat-2012-12

The problem I see with this is that it puts all the responsibility on the company. People need to step up and be responsible for what they eat. It's not like the company is forcing people to eat their food, people are choosing it because they like the taste/price/convenience. People are still going to get obese unless they make smarter decisions.

 

[Molpet]

The problem I see with this is that it puts all the responsibility on the company. People need to step up and be responsible for what they eat. It's not like the company is forcing people to eat their food, people are choosing it because they like the taste/price/convenience. People are still going to get obese unless they make smarter decisions.

True, people are incharge of their own destinies
BUT trying to eat this junk once a week, even the processed stuff that's marketed as healthy, starts a craving that is hard to resist. I read a study that people with addictive personalities, it acts same as a drug. I know I just can't have one.... so I stay away from it all. Builds character to resist temptation.

 

[BantyChooks]

The problem I see with this is that it puts all the responsibility on the company. People need to step up and be responsible for what they eat. It's not like the company is forcing people to eat their food, people are choosing it because they like the taste/price/convenience. People are still going to get obese unless they make smarter decisions.