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Post by Mark on May 8, 2007 13:25:28 GMT -5
Around here we've seen deer, groundhogs, armadillos, foxes, coyotes, snakes, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, opossums, wild turkeys, rabbits, scorpions, and the usual spiders, slugs, mice and such.
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Post by Dabbit on May 8, 2007 14:04:23 GMT -5
Oh we have the slugs in more than our fair share...
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Post by Mark on May 8, 2007 14:31:02 GMT -5
Well, if you ever run low, Dabbit, let me know right away and I'll send you a C.A.R.E. package chockablock with the critters. Be glad to, my friend... ;D
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Post by Maria on May 9, 2007 19:31:34 GMT -5
Slugs abound around here too. I now have a barrier around my flowers gardens of stone or crushed sharp sand. They hate to cross over those surfaces. Of course there is always a saucer of beer, which they love, for them to drown in. But sometimes I just crush them with my shoes. Yuck. But then they do so much damage to my plants.
Around here (I live in a smallish city surrounded by a rivers and bays with country 5 minutes away) I have seen foxes, coyotes, snakes, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, opossums, skunks, rabbits, and the usual spiders, slugs, mice and buggies. Wild life abound even here. Oh yes hawks too and other birds.
For while, we had a opossum family living in my back yard. Raccoons too. I know there are mice because my kitties keep bringing me presents of battered mice.
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Post by Mark on May 10, 2007 7:11:56 GMT -5
Oh yes, we have many raptors around here as well, even bats and owls, hooting through the night. But you say the 'country' is only 5 minutes away? Heck, in your case, several states are only 5 minutes away in any direction!
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Post by Dabbit on May 10, 2007 8:33:15 GMT -5
My apple trees
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Post by Dabbit on May 10, 2007 8:34:51 GMT -5
My redcurrant bush
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Post by Dabbit on May 10, 2007 8:37:20 GMT -5
Some of our little plants from seeds
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Post by Dabbit on May 10, 2007 8:38:26 GMT -5
My strawberry tub
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Post by Mark on May 10, 2007 10:42:53 GMT -5
Some nice pics, Dabbit! You appear to be quite organized.
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Post by Dabbit on May 10, 2007 10:51:49 GMT -5
Well I do try to be organised Mark - but sometimes that organisation can be chaotic - particularly when the seeds fail to push through or we go away for a few days and no one is here to water them...Can be frustrating! We lost one lot of seeds through the latter.
I finally got the pictures up to imageshack after about a week - i swear it was tiscali, my daughter bf checked the computer and said he couldn't find anything wrong. We tried a different browser (FF), we reinstalled the wireless modem and it didn't change anything. Then suddenly today it springs back to life and I can upload images, visit websites without hitch etc...
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Post by sandy on May 10, 2007 13:53:34 GMT -5
I like seeing foxes. They look so cute runing along the fence rows. I dislike what they can do to a litter of kittens. Guess everything in life is give and take. As for snakes, not in my yard please. I chase them next door to oilcan's place.
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Post by Mark on May 10, 2007 17:11:21 GMT -5
Dabbit, it is indeed amazing that a company like Tiscali can function like that, yet, having said that, I must say that all ISP's seem to operate in this haphazard fashion - each arm of the company not being aware, or at least not admitting to knowing, what the other arms are doing. They go into areas, work on their systems installed in those areas without telling the people who will be affected by their work. Often, I'm sure, the Help Desks do not know where their company's work crews are working on any given day or on what. Thus, it sometimes seems as though problems mysteriously disappear. Happens to me all the time.
And Sandy, not you too...you're afraid of snakes? They do keep the rodent population down. Of course, then again, perhaps you consider 'Oilcan' to be a rodent. ;D
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Post by Dabbit on May 11, 2007 2:38:41 GMT -5
Em we shan't mention the help line...based in a foreign land with someone who hardly spoke English - argh
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