The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

Um which is the second most famous duck? And what is the FIRST most famous??

I think we are going to Hall's Harbour area, don't know where the restaurant you mentioned would be.

 

[1muttsfan]

I have heard a double fence deters deer because they cant figure out how to jump it...

https://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/deerfences.html

quote from the above website
""If you have a standard fence about four or five feet high, you can add a similar and additional one about four feet away. While not high, with this width deer usually won’t like to try and clear both and perhaps get caught between or on them. ""

deb

You can get a similar effect by running a strand of wire outside your fence at a distance of several feet at the level of the top of your fence. I have heard that a fence made of single strands with each strand several feet outside the lower one, rising at an outward angle, will also work.

I think that the West Nile virus has killed 'my' crows. I haven't seen them in several weeks and they are not eating the pears from the neighbor's tree like they always do. Last time West Nile struck around here almost all of the crows died.

Hard to "like" that. Thieves that they are, I like the crows.

 

[drumstick diva]

I haven't seen any crows this year but, am not seeing any Blue Jays either. We had them in spring. I know the virus wiped out many of them last time.

 

[Latestarter]

Bruce, you sure are doing a lot of driving for your daughter's college reviews... Is there some particular reason why she has decided to look strictly at Canadian schools? I mean, I know you're in northern VT so probably close to the border and all, but my guess would be she's going to need to live at the school of choice regardless of where located...

 

[microchick]

On Campus here there is an Almond tree that never has ripe almonds. It blooms very nicely and the almond set but squirrels eat them All!

We have an old friend that has a walnut tree in his yard. He used to snipe squirrels from the third floor attic window in his house with a BB gun till the neighbors complained. City folk. Go figure. He now traps them and releases them out in the country.

Got over 3 inches of rain overnight in thunderstorms. Lots of continuous lightening and thunder, high winds for almost 2 hours. Yep, I was awake through all of it but we needed the rain so badly.

 

[sourland]

I have heard a double fence deters deer because they cant figure out how to jump it...

https://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/deerfences.html

quote from the above website
""If you have a standard fence about four or five feet high, you can add a similar and additional one about four feet away. While not high, with this width deer usually won’t like to try and clear both and perhaps get caught between or on them. ""

deb

Farmer in back of my childhood home strung a double fence of barbed wire with much of the second fence on the outside of the trees creating a varying width between fence depending upon the size of the trees. A doe tried to jump and got caught between the fences. When I found her she was dead with her intestines spread along the fence where she had struggled = truly a sad sight.

 

[ronott1]

I think that the West Nile virus has killed 'my' crows. I haven't seen them in several weeks and they are not eating the pears from the neighbor's tree like they always do. Last time West Nile struck around here almost all of the crows died.

We have had west nile here for over 10 years. The crows were hit hard but have made a recovery. They are resistant to west nile now. Magpies do not seem to have recovered. They were completely wiped out and will likely not recover

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg it's so sad that so many old cemeteries are not taken care of. It's wonderful that you have gotten involved in restoring them.

Ls it's a good thing your fence is still up and the goat's did not get out.
Your goats are looking good!

 

[CapricornFarm]

We loved the Garden View restaurant in Dartmouth, NS. Bruce, if you ever go to Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, stop on the way at Holts Take out. Excellent scallops and fish & chips. My in-laws live nearby.

 

[ronott1]

We have an old friend that has a walnut tree in his yard. He used to snipe squirrels from the third floor attic window in his house with a BB gun till the neighbors complained. City folk. Go figure. He now traps them and releases them out in the country.

Got over 3 inches of rain overnight in thunderstorms. Lots of continuous lightening and thunder, high winds for almost 2 hours. Yep, I was awake through all of it but we needed the rain so badly.

The vet school did an experiment where they used a chemical to sterilize the female Squirrels. There are still a lot of squirrels here