Hurray for the cat! Let the coons find their own food.
I have open windows, too, and the ceiling fan on in the living room. Haven't dragged out the window A/C in years.
I like the way Annie operates! A few years ago, I realized the county had hired a neighbor to mow the ditches, and I stealthily rescued a bunch of flowering something-or-others. Thought I was pretty slick about it -- until much later when the guy asked me how the plants were doing.
My new geraniums looked great for almost an hour yesterday. Until I discovered my beloved geese gleefully ripping off leaves and blossoms, then spitting them disdainfully onto the ground. Last year I put geraniums in the same planters in the same place, and the geese ignored them. Gussie and Golly got temporarily grounded, placed in their pen while I tried to salvage survivors and put them in a pot far away from where the geese could destroy them.
Wondered if I might have worked too long in the hot sun when I thought I saw hay moving around in the shed, right where one of the runners likes to sneak in and lay eggs. I knew it couldn't be a duckling because I pick up her eggs every day.
I gently moved the hay and spotted something that, at first glance, was the right size and color to be a rat. I didn't have to panic for long before I realized it was a nest of bunnies. Drew is laying eggs on top of baby rabbits -- who have been there long enough to grow fur! I can't block her out or Mama Bunny won't be able to get in. Also, I now trudge back to the farther shed for hay so I won't disturb those cute little rabbits that will want to eat my garden when they get older.
Still better than coyotes, who must be on vacation for the past three days.
I have open windows, too, and the ceiling fan on in the living room. Haven't dragged out the window A/C in years.
I like the way Annie operates! A few years ago, I realized the county had hired a neighbor to mow the ditches, and I stealthily rescued a bunch of flowering something-or-others. Thought I was pretty slick about it -- until much later when the guy asked me how the plants were doing.
My new geraniums looked great for almost an hour yesterday. Until I discovered my beloved geese gleefully ripping off leaves and blossoms, then spitting them disdainfully onto the ground. Last year I put geraniums in the same planters in the same place, and the geese ignored them. Gussie and Golly got temporarily grounded, placed in their pen while I tried to salvage survivors and put them in a pot far away from where the geese could destroy them.
Wondered if I might have worked too long in the hot sun when I thought I saw hay moving around in the shed, right where one of the runners likes to sneak in and lay eggs. I knew it couldn't be a duckling because I pick up her eggs every day.
I gently moved the hay and spotted something that, at first glance, was the right size and color to be a rat. I didn't have to panic for long before I realized it was a nest of bunnies. Drew is laying eggs on top of baby rabbits -- who have been there long enough to grow fur! I can't block her out or Mama Bunny won't be able to get in. Also, I now trudge back to the farther shed for hay so I won't disturb those cute little rabbits that will want to eat my garden when they get older.
Still better than coyotes, who must be on vacation for the past three days.
