Hurricane Advice

[Kiki]

I have more of an issue with the deer right now. I came home last night to find my pepper plants demolished....they ate the plant and left the peppers!!! I can understand the hot ones but they left the sweet ones too. I have everything else caged but never thought they'd go after pepper plants. Learn something new every year.

You really should try to learn something new every day....waiting a whole year is not good.

 

[adrikeen]

If I had to choose..I pick an opossum over a skunk any day of the week.

Oh God yes....
We have new neighbors now who put up a fence around their yard but the previous owners had some sort of Argentinian Hound that would routinely go after the skunks. I got really tired of going out every morning and being gagged by skunk stentch....the hens appeared very unhappy too.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I have more of an issue with the deer right now. I came home last night to find my pepper plants demolished....they ate the plant and left the peppers!!! I can understand the hot ones but they left the sweet ones too. I have everything else caged but never thought they'd go after pepper plants. Learn something new every year.

DH says that's what I think is the ideal kitchen garden, one that I can sit on my back porch and get both meat and veggis from! LOL

 

[Kiki]

Not too long ago I had one living under my backyard deck.
My poor dogs.

That has got to be the worst smelling thing in the world.
Worse than stinky cheeses and those cheese spell like puke to me.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Poor DH, when we met he had to be able to take me hunting and fishing, keep chickens in an urban backyard, as well as a garden, take me to a white linen table cloth resturant a couple of times a year and keep season tickets to the opera. Think his head isn't spinning? We have been together 20 years, so I guess it's not too bad.

 

[adrikeen]

DH says that's what I think is the ideal kitchen garden, one that I can sit on my back porch and get both meat and veggis from! LOL

Well....the meat still comes from the grocery or butcher...we don't eat our hens. They are all bantam so not much meat on em anyway. But yes....veggies and herbs! I even set up the composters in the middle of the raised beds to continually nourish. I saw that on some documentary.

 

[RUNuts]

@KikisGirls are feeling OK? What was in that gumbo? You haven't been acting sane since the hurricane (storm not drink). I'm not complaining, just wondering how that speed is treating you.

@Ursuline Chick - you sound delightful. Crazy, but I'm used to that.

Specialization is for insects. --Lazarous Long.

 

[RUNuts]

@adrikeen I'd forgotten about that aspect. I'm setting up new raised garden beds. New(ish) job with a LOT more me time. I should have applied for this job years ago.

I just started some zucchini. Hope it makes before it gets too cold in February. The compost a' la chicken poop heats up beautifully.

 

[Chickassan]

Hubs has to put up with me, the cat, the goldfish, the chickens and never bad mouth any of us ever. Also has to be my chauffeur since my eyesight is awful. And never ever fart in the bed. Overall his life is easy but to hear him tell it he's basically a slave that lives under the porch that I feed moldy bread to "only did that once, and I can't see so I get a pass." Anyways been married 22 years so it must be pretty nice under the porch.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yes, after 60 years in Southeastern Louisiana, I have never seen one that looked like that before today. I am a hunter and I enjoy fishing, have been all over the woods and swamps, both night and day and have never seen one like him.

We have them in Washington state maybe it went for warmer weather