Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Eric, you do have a farm cat don't you? My Gray2 (gray farm cat) keeps the mouse, rat, rabbit, bird and squirrel population down even though I feed him three times a day. He eats everything except the liver on mice, feathers on birds and heads on squirrels.

You are fortunate to have a good farm cat. Most of our animal feed is kept in a barn a good 250 yds or more away from the house. That gets patrolled by both cats and stoats and they do a pretty good job. Closer by we have a neighbour with lots of pet animals - pet dogs, pet sheep, pet pigs, pet goates etc and rats get attracted by the food.

We used to have a cat we called Thomas, with very similar marking to the cartoon Tom & Jerry. He was a good mouser. Only trouble was he was so proud of every mouse he caught, he would often bring inside his captives, dead or alive, to show everyone. All the family were sad when he died at a good old age, but didn't miss the "he must have left a mouse somewhere" odour.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

66F this morning under sunny skies and light breeze, headed to 87F later in the day. It'll be in the 90F range by Thursday, with no chance of rain for at least the next ten days.

Eric, I've used Decon mouse bait around the firewood pile, and in the pallet of wood kept in the garage, with good results here. Don't have any pets to worry about though, a common concern of those advocating alternate means of control.

 

[farmer2009]

47 this morning and headed to 70 today. Well birds are gone and now the work begins.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .1 inches rain last 24 hours

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 48F and sunny this morning going to 70F and light wind. Wind was odd yesterday mostly light to moderate then periodically gust over 20 mph. Still trying to get all the "i"s dotted and "t"s crossed after house inspection. Stepson goes homes today and a ride is on the agenda.

 

[daugen]

too bad it doesn't get cold enough to do this in NC.
now you Mainiacs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMATekiRUs&feature=youtu.be

a friend sent me this link and said I should do this on my pond. He forgets how far South I am but it did freeze over this
winter during one cold spell here. Certainly not enough to walk on, much less provide propulsion to...
now there must be a way to do this using the tractor's pto...

just finished mowing the lawn and found another half dozen new fire ant hills. I kill between 5 and 8 new hills every day over a 5 acre area. They really are an invading force here.

 

[txdon]

TxDon and the rest of you Texans:

Now if I had only kept that white 1964 Porsche 356SC coupe...
I bet all of us have had a car or truck that we wish we had kept...

Naa, Never have wished I'd kept my 1974 Pinto.

The real gasoline web site shows the closest gas to me is 80 miles away. I guess it's going to stay there.

 

[daugen]

Naa, Never have wished I'd kept my 1974 Pinto.

now I just bet that was you Don with the guitar...
The Age of Aquarius and all.
did Texans ever wear bell bottom pants?
might be a menace to a good set of spurs.

 

[txdon]

Naa, Never have wished I'd kept my 1974 Pinto.

now I just bet that was you Don with the guitar...
The Age of Aquarius and all.
did Texans ever wear bell bottom pants?
might be a menace to a good set of spurs.

The blue hatchback was mine with surf board racks, chrome mag wheels, and white racing stripes down the sides. The bell bottoms were wide and one pair was thin striped.
I bought it all, with the money I made on my paper route, mowing lawns and working in a grocery store during high school. Almost two thousand dollars brand new.

In Houston you were a goat roper a.k.a. kicker, or a cool surfer heading to the Gulf every weekend. I was cool.

It's cloudy and cold now and will be 40s in the morning!

 

[dave1949]

Our weather is stuck on cloudy, windy and 50's.



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