06-09-2019, 07:15 PM
Update:
Simplify your life, plant a vegetable garden, save on your food costs.
As I was planting the seeds for my kabocha - musk melon - watermelon patch, along comes Tubby, our special needs lap cat.
He is delighted as he wanders around the raised bed smelling and looking around at everything.
I can see it allover his face: Oh boy, a new cat latrine.
So, I begin plotting on how to keep cats out of the new garden area.
A day or two later, after finding that something has been eating some of my seeds, I covered the bed with some bird netting I had bought a few years earlier, should keep the birds and cats out.
The next morning I find the netting all tore up with bird feathers scattered around the bed.
Apparently, the birds get in anyway and the cats have a field day chasing the bird inside the netting tearing it up in the process.
So, I pullout some hardware cloth I had bought to make a cage to move cats in for the evacuation, but never used, and begin making a fence around the bed.
And, I buy some more seed for just in case.
And, one of the cats brought a dead rat home that night.
I'm now thinking that I need to protect it from cats, rats and birds.
I didn't finish the fence that day.
Went out to finish it the next morning and I find more bird feathers around the bed.
Maybe the cats are protecting my squash garden.
I'm finding empty kabocha, watermelon and musk melon hulls laying on the ground with no seedlings showing, ... birds and/or rats?
I began looking at motion activated water sprinklers to keep birds, rats and cats out of the garden.
Found a nice one for about $70 that just might do the job.
Finally this afternoon, I see seedlings sprouting out of the ground.
Maybe some of the seed will survive.
I am beginning to wonder just where this is going to end up.
Simplify your life, plant a vegetable garden, save on your food costs.
As I was planting the seeds for my kabocha - musk melon - watermelon patch, along comes Tubby, our special needs lap cat.
He is delighted as he wanders around the raised bed smelling and looking around at everything.
I can see it allover his face: Oh boy, a new cat latrine.
So, I begin plotting on how to keep cats out of the new garden area.
A day or two later, after finding that something has been eating some of my seeds, I covered the bed with some bird netting I had bought a few years earlier, should keep the birds and cats out.
The next morning I find the netting all tore up with bird feathers scattered around the bed.
Apparently, the birds get in anyway and the cats have a field day chasing the bird inside the netting tearing it up in the process.
So, I pullout some hardware cloth I had bought to make a cage to move cats in for the evacuation, but never used, and begin making a fence around the bed.
And, I buy some more seed for just in case.
And, one of the cats brought a dead rat home that night.
I'm now thinking that I need to protect it from cats, rats and birds.
I didn't finish the fence that day.
Went out to finish it the next morning and I find more bird feathers around the bed.
Maybe the cats are protecting my squash garden.
I'm finding empty kabocha, watermelon and musk melon hulls laying on the ground with no seedlings showing, ... birds and/or rats?
I began looking at motion activated water sprinklers to keep birds, rats and cats out of the garden.
Found a nice one for about $70 that just might do the job.
Finally this afternoon, I see seedlings sprouting out of the ground.
Maybe some of the seed will survive.
I am beginning to wonder just where this is going to end up.
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Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.
Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.