BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe I brought more coffee.

 

[DobieLover]

@DobieLover any idea what the plans are for the area.

I've heard hot air balloon park with some small cabins up on the hill out of the flood zone to accommodate users or an Airbnb ( but I don't think that's very feasible without having to submit significant building plans and go through a zoning change).

I also heard they wanted to have an 'animal farm' there, whatever that means. But the Town shot that down. Which makes sense considering someone would have to be there all the time to tend to the animals.

I've also heard that they still don't mind all of us using it to run our dogs. We all have respect and whatever happens there we will work around it.

 

[DobieLover]

some of them were kind of funky

Funky how?

 

[aart]

Funky how?

Moldy and very soft.
Easy to flick out the small blob with a toothpick.
Some had been in there for a very long time as I shove the bait in so tight it doesn't get eaten without a fast kill.

 

[bobbi-j]

Still fairly cool, but humidity seems to be rising.

Seeing evidence that mouses are active, have caught a few in the last couple weeks. Decided to rebait all the traps, good thing as some of them were kind of funky. I just use little chunks of plain peanuts crammed into the trigger, much cleaner than peanut butter.
So that's done, will see how many corpses greet me in the morning.

My mother has an over abundance of kittens this year, so I’m planning on getting 2 or 3 of them to hopefully help control the rodent and rabbit population around here. Her adult cats are all good hunters, but I’m not sure I want any around now that I have baby chicks (my broody just hatched out 5). I know mama hens are protective, but I’m afraid it would still be easy for a skilled hunter to nab one.

 

[Mtn Margie]

8 trees gone the way of the Dodo!
I tend to think of the general tree clean up as trying to save my house too. If we can lower the temperature of the fire that will roll through here , I won't have to live in scorched earth for years.
Come on rain!

 

[Sally PB]

Seeing evidence that mouses are active, have caught a few in the last couple weeks. Decided to rebait all the traps, good thing as some of them were kind of funky. I just use little chunks of plain peanuts crammed into the trigger, much cleaner than peanut butter.
So that's done, will see how many corpses greet me in the morning.

I had to trap one last night in the house.

I shove the bait in so tight it doesn't get eaten without a fast kill.

That's how I do it too.

For the large snap trap (rat sized), I do use PB. I have that trap out on the front porch and I have caught 6(!) chipmunks in the last two days. There are a bazillion chippies and red squirrels this year. So far I've lowered their numbers by about a dozen chippies and 2 red squirrels.

 

[aart]

I had to trap one last night in the house.

That's where all these traps are....I get a few infiltrations a few times a year. Usually snap 2-3 then a reprieve. Thinks the garage flooding might have upped the count.

My mother has an over abundance of kittens this year, so I’m planning on getting 2 or 3 of them to hopefully help control the rodent and rabbit population around here. Her adult cats are all good hunters, but I’m not sure I want any around now that I have baby chicks (my broody just hatched out 5). I know mama hens are protective, but I’m afraid it would still be easy for a skilled hunter to nab one.

The last thing I want in my house is a cat(s), they would wreak more havoc trying to catch the mice than the mice themselves.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Watching a movie on tv Turner classic movies.

 

[pertnear09]

Watching a movie on tv Turner classic movies.

Didn't the long time host of that show pass a few years ago?