What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

That is more than insane, in your state people can steal food from you?

Here that would be trespassing, harassing and worrying livestock, theft of livestock, theft of income from livestock.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Vernon's Texas Health and Safety Laws cover ours. Just depends on how far you want to push it.

But that being said any jerk jumping over my fence to steal from me pushed too far.

 

[Sueby]

That is more than insane, in your state people can steal food from you?

If you can flee from them & your life isnt in danger, yes they can.

The castle doctrine allows for you to defend your person or property with reasonable force but CT has included that outside of the “castle,” however, an individual has a duty to retreat, if able to do so, before using reasonable force.

Good luck shooting someone outside over an egg in CT! Or inside even unless they are armed & have you cornered!

Of course I'm no lawyer & didn't study law, but Iam licensed to carry & its what they teach you in class.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Somewhere in the last 45 years Washington state came to conclusion that if their not threatening life I cannot kill them we moved here in 68 lot less people and everyone cared about each other up really late today layed in bed trying to find if I still had all my marbles got up almost 3 hours late

 

[jerryse]

Good morning all. I actually made it out to the garden yesterday. Most of the clean up is done. I still need to rake and make it "pretty." I picked the three largest leeks. We may get a hard freeze by the end of next week so I will wait until then to pick the remainder. The plan for the day is to get gas for the mower (and snow blower), then dig holes for the heath that should be delivered today. I would like a quick freeze so I can dig up the dahlias and plant the daffodil bulbs. I had to google the butternuts @jerryse. When I saw them I thought they were some strange looking squash, LOL! So do you eat them? I'm allergic to walnuts so I suspect these would cause a reaction as well. Have a great day everyone.

Yes I eat them and black walnuts also . Butternuts are also known as white walnuts . The shells of butternuts are easier to crack than black walnuts . Took around 15 years for the tree to bear this much . So a long wait .

 

[microchick]

No garden work for me today. I had PT this morning for my neck, got deep muscle acupuncture which is great but I didn't feel much like diggin around outside although I did get my planters dragged back part of the way to the barn. Pretty pathetic, isn't it.

One of the reasons we moved to Missouri was their mind set about self protection and protection of property. It's not unusual, in fact it is common where we live to find rifles near every neighbor's door. We have great police protection, it's just far away usually and about 45 minutes away at best. People look out for themselves and their neighbors. We have to.

We were told about a man who called the sheriff about a neighbor's goat that kept coming over and getting in their flower bed. The sheriff listened to the man and then said "You called me for that? That's farmer business. Settle it among yourselves!" and left.

I have to say that for the most part it's a very 'polite' neighborhood/community that we live in.

 

[microchick]

I had the funniest thing happen tonight out at the coop. Our half hound half border collie Buck goes out to the coop with me every day and 'guards' the door. I've worked with him a lot teaching him that the chickens were off limits and he could look but not touch. Never got rough with him, never used anything but a firm no! He always listens to me. Tonight, when I went into the coop with a big leaf of straw under my arms for the nesting boxes I thought the door had closed behind me. I heard one of the little bantam boys let out their 'red alert' call and turned around to see that no, the door hadn't snapped shut like it was supposed to and was open about 8 inches. One of the young cockerels had wandered out into the outer part of the shed's overhang where Buck was standing guard, about two feet from the door.

Silly little cockerel stood there staring at Buck and Buck was trying hard to ignore the little guy, occasionally giving him a sidelong look before looking away. I gave him a soft "Buck, NO!' so not to startle the cockerel and then that silly bird walked right up to that dog. They were nearly beak to nose and I was holding my breath. Buck reached out and gently nudged the little guy on his breast feathers, not a snap, more like using his 'lips' to give his feathers a little pinch. The cockerel got the message, he turned around and ran back into the coop and I closed the door.

Buck, my chicken herding dog got the biggest egg in the basket. Such a good boy!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wow Micro Good dog that time bet your proud as a peacock over what he did

 

[karenerwin]

Still burning out the same tree stump. It's about a third of the way gone. Grandson went home today. It was enjoyable having him here. He really likes the chickens.... from a distance!

 

[pennyJo1960]

great to have them great to send them home sorry JMHO