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[FlyRobinFly]

The sheer idiocy of people feeding coyotes is beyond my abilities to understand. For one important thing, they get bigger when well fed and then need to eat more to support their body weight, and even more importantly, females have larger litters when well fed. When I first moved here we had foxes and ringnecked pheasants, and larger ground-nesting birds like meadow larks, and my mostly outcoor cat could hunt rabbits to his heart's content (he died of bone cancer, for the record) then one of the new neighbors started feeding coyote pups and all the ground level diversity disappeared.
Coyotes, and people who subsidize coyotes, are not good neighbors.

Exactly! The coyote population in this neighborhood has boomed. Some people were seriously freaked out when they saw a pack of four or five really big ones standing and watching their toddler. I was going to go on a rampage if my dogs got mange because of that one coyote.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Yesterday afternoon we were keeping a close eye on the driveway/gate area, waiting for a UPS 2-day vaccine delivery that has to be put ASAP in the refrig........and he did not show........but some DONKEY stopped in a green truck across from our driveway (again) and dumped out a box with a black cat in it.which took off like a rocket right up our driveway !!!!!!!

We waited for UPS til 8 or so & then watched TV thinking he wasn't coming, and I was getting angry at the thought of getting warmed vaccines........

This morning DH went down to the gate & there was the box, apparently dropped off later than 9 PM.......and wrapped in a plastic bag to keep it dry..........which was COVERED in CAT SPRAY !!!!!!!!!

DH picked up the plastic wrapped box and promptly got cat SPRAY all over his coat

Time to get the trap out again....

Wish I knew where the guy lived so I could pull in front of his house, HONK the horn til he comes outside, & then let the black cat back loose in his yeard, creep !!!!!!!!!!!

Ewwwwwww!!! Cat spray is nasty stuff.

I say you get DH to put that Christmas sniperscope to good use!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

I have decided to moon the web cam when DH is gone so he will get my message when he sees the DVD.......................

 

[FlyRobinFly]

But that is a "gel pen" for fabric. I said INK PEN as in ball point, as in for writting a letter !!!

There are bottles of white ink sold for fountain pens, those are certainly ink pens and for writing letters.

But if you want ballpoint, here is one that I found: http://www.amazon.com/Parker-Jotter-White-Ballpoint-Pen/dp/B001F1KFOO. There are others too.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

There are no Dumb questions.
My girlfriend and I show dairy goats and a woman and her friend came up to her at a fair and asked if that was a Alpaca or a Lama ? So as long as you know you have chickens your all good..

I used to volunteer at an aquarium. One time after I did a presentation at the sea otter habitat, a man comes up and asks, "so they're not fish?" I look over at the otters that are happily running around on the land part of their exhibit..."Um no, they're mammals". The scary thing is, he was serious!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Elk-a-mania here, actually just on the other side of the fence, waite, there is no fence there !
LOL

Hmm, why are these pictures making me hungry?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

This is a close-up of the breaks in the Grimes Golden apple tree over my primary gate into the orchard and pasture. I misunderstood the nature of the thing when I last described it; it seems tht there is a saddle-break of two smaller branches with a much larger break hung up in the smaller of those two branches and in the intact branch (to the left of the obvious break) which is also partly over the corner of the Wyandotte coop. Isn't that just special?

It makes going out into the orchard an adventure on the level of crossing I-5 on foot at 5pm.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Elk-a-mania here, actually just on the other side of the fence, waite, there is no fence there !
LOL

I will not show my husband this or my son, they want to get one bow hunting. Poor guys have no idea where to go to find one when its the right season. They are new to hunting, they do the bow thing every week up here..

 

[Kaneke]

This is a close-up of the breaks in the Grimes Golden apple tree over my primary gate into the orchard and pasture. I misunderstood the nature of the thing when I last described it; it seems tht there is a saddle-break of two smaller branches with a much larger break hung up in the smaller of those two branches and in the intact branch (to the left of the obvious break) which is also partly over the corner of the Wyandotte coop. Isn't that just special?

It makes going out into the orchard an adventure on the level of crossing I-5 on foot at 5pm.

yep, for that you truly do need an arborist ... I completely miscalculated there ...

wish I knew a helicopter pilot with a slung-cargo endorsement --

you might consult this fellow, obviously out of your price range but he might know of a good referral


Kevin McFarland, owner of Sound Forestry LLC of Olympia and the city’s consulting arborist

 

[KMoran]

Thanks guys. I will have to try some of those. I never have any luck with pumpkins but the kids have fun trying every year. I am gonna give the sweet meat squash a try hopefully I will have better luck. I do grow lots of corn and my ladies loved it last year.

LOVE the ELK pictures by the way.