Surviving Minnesota!

[MNChickMom]

Winter stinks.. and who doesn’t want another grandchild?

Congrats to you on yours!!!

We have been informed our kids are not having more kids for us.. little ingrates!!

We will need to wait and adopt or steal others kids as grandkids....Holms you listening???

Friday you can adopt a 12 year old male. Just be sure he has nothing to eat/drink from midnight on, and that you are at surgical center at 6:30am. Then for next 2 weeks a soft diet of purée or liquids.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . I see many of you are above 32 today . Spring is coming .

 

[duluthralphie]

Friday you can adopt a 12 year old male. Just be sure he has nothing to eat/drink from midnight on, and that you are at surgical center at 6:30am. Then for next 2 weeks a soft diet of purée or liquids.

No need to adopt him...(as a grandkid).. I sorta already have.... but as an adopted grandparent I am smart enough to not get between him and his food!!

Is tomorrow the day? Tell him good luck and to play his cards right so his sister waits on him, hand and foot for the next month.

 

[jerryse]

Ralphie here is a idea for your squirrels . In the 80's I worked at a seed and hardware store . In the summer city people would buy live traps to catch chipmunks . They would release them in the park . Then people living near the park would come in to buy live traps complaining about all the chipmunks . So maybe you should catch squirrels and move them to the city .
Or you could get bigger cats . Like Maine coon cats or Norwegian forrest cats .

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie here is a idea for your squirrels . In the 80's I worked at a seed and hardware store . In the summer city people would buy live traps to catch chipmunks . They would release them in the park . Then people living near the park would come in to buy live traps complaining about all the chipmunks . So maybe you should catch squirrels and move them to the city .
Or you could get bigger cats . Like Maine coon cats or Norwegian forrest cats .

I have threatened for years to live trap critters and release them in the cities or suburbs...


I am quite happy with the cat I have. She does not demand attention, other than a back scratch when I feed her and her spawn. The spawn are scared to death of me, which is even better. The cat will not come up to me in my machine shed or outdoors, she is never hanging around us on the deck or in the yard. Who could ask for a better cat?

I tried to remove a few squirrels from the breeding population yesterday. I know 2 of them are most likely going to smell this spring as they limped into holes in the tree in the front yard....

I have one I have to go retrieve and clean for supper. Judy will be so thrilled to eat squirrel tonight! (not).....

There was a dozen out here again, I knocked on the window and they ran away like squirrels should. Apparently, the episode with the 22 yesterday has them behaving properly. A few went into the trees outside our bedroom window....I being the great white hunter, snuck into the bedroom, slid the window open and saw my game in the oak mocking me.....

I slowly raised the rifle to my shoulder, put the iron sights just under the monsters head, braced myself for the heavy recoil, took in a deep breath slowly released half the breath, held it and squeezed the trigger ever so gently. I immediately felt the pain of the shell igniting in the chamber as the rifle was pushed back into my shoulder...

When the smoke cleared I saw the monster, fall forward and tumble to the ground, landing in a soft cushion of wet snow.

Ding dong Ding Dong the monster is dead!

Now I simply have to put on my boots and snowshoes and sneak out and find his body so I can properly prepare it for the little woman's meal...

Life is good.

 

[Molpet]

I have threatened for years to live trap critters and release them in the cities or suburbs...


I am quite happy with the cat I have. She does not demand attention, other than a back scratch when I feed her and her spawn. The spawn are scared to death of me, which is even better. The cat will not come up to me in my machine shed or outdoors, she is never hanging around us on the deck or in the yard. Who could ask for a better cat?

I tried to remove a few squirrels from the breeding population yesterday. I know 2 of them are most likely going to smell this spring as they limped into holes in the tree in the front yard....

I have one I have to go retrieve and clean for supper. Judy will be so thrilled to eat squirrel tonight! (not).....

There was a dozen out here again, I knocked on the window and they ran away like squirrels should. Apparently, the episode with the 22 yesterday has them behaving properly. A few went into the trees outside our bedroom window....I being the great white hunter, snuck into the bedroom, slid the window open and saw my game in the oak mocking me.....

I slowly raised the rifle to my shoulder, put the iron sights just under the monsters head, braced myself for the heavy recoil, took in a deep breath slowly released half the breath, held it and squeezed the trigger ever so gently. I immediately felt the pain of the shell igniting in the chamber as the rifle was pushed back into my shoulder...

When the smoke cleared I saw the monster, fall forward and tumble to the ground, landing in a soft cushion of wet snow.

Ding dong Ding Dong the monster is dead!

Now I simply have to put on my boots and snowshoes and sneak out and find his body so I can properly prepare it for the little woman's meal...

Life is good.

those 22's have a heck of a kick in the banana belt

 

[CindyinSD]

I have threatened for years to live trap critters and release them in the cities or suburbs...


I am quite happy with the cat I have. She does not demand attention, other than a back scratch when I feed her and her spawn. The spawn are scared to death of me, which is even better. The cat will not come up to me in my machine shed or outdoors, she is never hanging around us on the deck or in the yard. Who could ask for a better cat?

I tried to remove a few squirrels from the breeding population yesterday. I know 2 of them are most likely going to smell this spring as they limped into holes in the tree in the front yard....

I have one I have to go retrieve and clean for supper. Judy will be so thrilled to eat squirrel tonight! (not).....

There was a dozen out here again, I knocked on the window and they ran away like squirrels should. Apparently, the episode with the 22 yesterday has them behaving properly. A few went into the trees outside our bedroom window....I being the great white hunter, snuck into the bedroom, slid the window open and saw my game in the oak mocking me.....

I slowly raised the rifle to my shoulder, put the iron sights just under the monsters head, braced myself for the heavy recoil, took in a deep breath slowly released half the breath, held it and squeezed the trigger ever so gently. I immediately felt the pain of the shell igniting in the chamber as the rifle was pushed back into my shoulder...

When the smoke cleared I saw the monster, fall forward and tumble to the ground, landing in a soft cushion of wet snow.

Ding dong Ding Dong the monster is dead!

Now I simply have to put on my boots and snowshoes and sneak out and find his body so I can properly prepare it for the little woman's meal...

Life is good.

 

[duluthralphie]

One lucky woman is going to be speechless tonight when she gets home and sees what we’re having.

 

[CindyinSD]

One lucky woman is going to be speechless tonight when she gets home and sees what we’re having.

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Reminds me of what my youngest used to say when we brought home squirrel. “They taste okay, only I don’t like eating their little butts.” So we shredded the meat after that. It’s strange (or come to think of it, maybe not so strange) but we don’t have much for squirrels and they used to be everywhere.

And no I didn’t do it. DH won’t even eat deer (thinks he’ll get CWD), let alone squirrels. He’s very stubborn about this strange fancy of his.

No, I blame the US Forest Disservice for their dysfunctional “stewardship.” It’s mostly all pine here only now they’re mostly all dead to the west and north of us. Our place must have stopped the pine beetles because we have a large expanse of grass. They can’t fly far. And we thinned/sprayed/cut down if necessary our trees. Anyway, no pine cones for the squirrels.

Which just proves that good things can come from bad situations.

It’s still snowing like all hades here.

 

[Cebarmlds]

One lucky woman is going to be speechless tonight when she gets home and sees what we’re having.

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