Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - User's Guide

Nice of you to try things out in VT, Patti!!

Victor, I don't have many moles here, maybe some voles. So I use it in Vt as we have had tons in the past. Some years worse than others and this Castor oil stuff seems to work great. I think the dogs have run them off in Nantucket but not in VT as they are only there for short visits.

Have any of you ever seen a film of a coyote hunting for underground critters? They cock their head and listen, then kind of rear up on their back legs and then ponce down with both feet and then listen again and move to where the critter has moved and do it again. After of series of this listening, rearing and double foot poncing, they start to dig frantically and usually get a mole or whatever. They toss it in the air a couple of times before devouring it. One of our border collies does this, but her sister from the same litter has none of this knowledge. Nell will do this in the snow in VT for hours until she gets a chipmunk or mole, but she is more interested in playing with it than eating it.

Moles bite like they weigh 50 pounds! My DH was digging once when we were making a new perennial garden, and a mole latched onto his finger and wouldn't let go. He pulled him out of the ground, and I was shocked at how small he was. He hurt my DH, but the mole got the short end of that stick!!

Do moles make for good eatin' ?

Even the cats won't eat them, JD. They can't bite through the moleskin. It's almost impenetrable.

Sorry Al.

Wasn't moleskin once used for warts?

Oh, Zuzu! That makes it so easy to compare to some men!

Weren't frogs used for warts?

Wasn't moleskin used for gloves?

My grandmother used to cure warts with onion rings, cobwebs, and some sort of weird old Ukrainian chant. She didn't do it on Wednesdays, though, because she said that was the day the evil spirits were closer to the earth.

I had a wart once.....don't know where it went. It was on my elbow. Ugly things.

Doctors who play golf would probably agree about the evil spirits being closer to the earth, hence their scores.

DB...which was ugly, the wart, or your elbows?

I only had a wart once - after I was touching my frog.

I thought it was toads that gave ya warts?

I very often refer to my dog as "the wart". He needs surgery to remove him from my left thigh. Or I need surgery to remove him for my left thigh. Not sure which>>>>sigh

Welcome Weeze. I can say the same for my cat. I've referred to him as my secret service agent, my shadow and one I can't mention.

Being as curious as a cat, what's the one you can't mention? Also why is it that garderners, in general, have their fave pets and their most likely to kill animals. Such as groundhogs or chipmunks. I read a very elaborate method of killing chipmunks, warning that it would take a couple of hours for the chipmunks to die. Yo, yuck, I'll live with them, they're pretty entertaining!!

I like chipmunks! They damage nothing in my garden.

The chipmunks don't bother anything that I know of. The cats like to chase them, because they're smaller than squirrels and don't run up the trees.

When I'm in the garden/yard, my three cats seem to pop up out of no where, and just hang out in the area that I'm in. Hey, if they were boys I could have named them Robbie, Ernie, and Chip!

And if you get a 4th one, it could be Uncle Charlie.

This summer, I was standing admiring a patch of Shasta daisies in full bloom, when my dogs came wandering over to say hello, and suddenly went ballistic, barking and snarling. A squirrel leapt straight up out of the clump into the air like a cartoon animal, scrabbling madly for purchase on the fence, hind legs bicycling like mad, tail whipping, and then he was over the top and gone.

I quite like them, when they aren't giving me a coronary. They sit in the trees and spit imprecations at passing cats

Hey, Victor, what does "scattelogical" mean anyway? I'm too lazy to look back at the original thread to see if you gave a definition.

Now squirrels are a different story. They are destructive. Luckily they don't care for garlic.

It's not a real word and Dave(47) 'invented' it!

Awfully close to scatological, innit?

and Dave47 invented Victor, as well.

Now we're gettin' somewhere!

It's interesting as an outsider, to hear about how warm and welcoming the NE forum is - apart from pirl, I haven't been so soundly ignored anywhere else on DG...

That might be a good thing, 2zeus, in view of the responses some people are getting. I'm sure someone's trying to come up with a clever reply to your scatological query without running afoul of the admins. Either that or they're all asleep.

2zeus,
I love your description of the squirrel "hind legs bicycling like mad" as I have a few times witnessed that bicycling myself.
We have 4 dogs and the squirrels come on to the deck, right up to the window and mock the dogs, until I open the door. Then they do thier bicycling thing all along the fence until they reach safety on the other side. This continues on a daily basis all through the winter. Last week, Tia my old lab came in with a few squirrel tail hairs in her mouth......she was very proud....almost had em!!

I'll be in DG withdrawal this weekend, but having fun so hope I don't miss you too much!

Have fun, Deb!

2zeus, I was already off to bed when you posted. I try to respond whenever possible.

Glad you weren't holding a cup of coffee when that squirrel leaped out of the Shasta Daisies, 2Zeus. I'd have been wearing the coffee.

I know someone who had a line of mulberry bushes and the berries would drop, ferment, and the squirrels would eat them, get drunk and have serious balance problems as they tried to run across the top of the fence.

Have fun, Deb!

Have a great time, Deb!

pirl: I love the picture you give of the drunken squirrels! It would make for fun U-Tube videos!!

I've heard of that with the squirrels. Must be fun to watch. Interesting when they stagger 'home' and help themselves to someone else's nuts.

Victor!

Here's our blonde tailed squirrel helping himself to the bird seed:

Doesn't look natural - I'm sure I see dark roots.

Now, Celeste, did you forget about "i before e, except after c"? In your reply to 2zeus, you misspelled the word as "thier"!

Deb, just send us all postcards!