Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - It's spring!

How much time have you spent there, Victor? Do you go back often?

It's where I live.

Pfffffftttttt.
and all this time I thought it was here.

Well good golly gee, Victor! Vultures indeed?

Here's a shot of two on my roof last year.

Jezz! They are big ugly raggedy things aren't they! They must be finding something eat! - and a lot of it too by the size of them!! ☺

Yes, we have many nearby. They have Harriman Park nearby, plus all the roadkill. Never seen a skinny one yet!

Friendly critters. Never met an animal they didn't like!

Funny Victor. We have "Wild Wings" in a park near me, so I've seen a vulture up close - they are big.

Victor - you really need to find out what attracts them to certain creatures and then spray the deer with whatever it is.

Pirl, I have spent hours doing back breaking work to clear brush only to have my DH tell me that I am only making it far easier for the deer to stroll into our property through all the now cleared areas. Am I dumb or what?

Send them off to Martha's Vineyard!

No steamship big enough and no service between the islands. We need deer birth control or some bobcats to thin the herd. But then who would eat the bob cats? Do Bob Cats eat tulips or lilies? Here Kitty Kitty Kitty. Patti

Bring back the carnivorous dinosaurs!

If we could just eliminate all the males...

GRRRRR

Or the females. Takes both to create the mess we now have.

Unisex deer?

'Unisex, dear?' 'You're on your own.'

That thing looks 1/2 Jafad (you know Teal'cs God) and 1/2 tarantasauras rex.

what?!?! Jafad? Teal'cs? huh?
is tarantasauras rex an amazingly humongous spider?

Nooo - Jafads and Goa'uld aliens. Like that thing up there. No spiders please.

I would rather have deer. That would squash every bulb I planted.

Ok, today I had a particular dilemma that I must say tested my relationship with mother nature . While brush cutting and selectively pruning lots of bay berry, high bush blue berries and all kinds of native plants to the property, we came across a rabbit warren. It was amazing in its construction. Clever bunnies.

I hate that they eat my plants. But I didn't like the idea that I wouldn't see them in the early evening out on the lawn. But I was so tempted to destroy it. I still am vacillating. My heart says no, but my gardener's brain say I should pull a Farmer McGregor and trap those rabbits. I love that we have a pair of nesting red tails just across the street to maybe keep the population down. What would any of you do? Patti

I tried getting rid of a rabbit living under my shed, then didn't see it for a few weeks and missed it, I know, I'm no help! Depends on how many rabbits, a lot can do a lot of damage, and gardens can be expensive...

I couldn't do it.

Can you scare them off and then destroy it?

I doubt if I could do it. I love the brand new bunnies, not when they're older and eating my lilies so I use blood meal though I know you could have a problem with your dogs digging if you used it.

Funny you should bring rabbits up. Today my neighbor across the street came home with 12 bags of gardening soil and off loaded it to his backyard. 15 min later I see a rabbit running at full hop across the street into my next door neighbors yard. last year they had a litter in his [nextdoor] front yard. He grows a marigold border around his veggies and they dont touch them. They never bothered me, I have the squirrels!
The animals have no place to go anymore, so either we co-exist or we eliminate them. I wouldn't kill one, I would consider it way too selfish of me and I'd feel really bad & guilty. ☺

* edited "his veggies"

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I couldn't either. That's why I would scare or trap and relocate. I have a Hav-a-hart trap.

I feel better with your similar thoughts, I hate the damage they do when they get into the garden, but I kind of like them when the are on the other side of the fence just munching on clover. I guess Peter will be safe for a while longer.

Pirl, DH sprays with a variety of products to deter their damage, but we do avoid any with blood meal. The dogs dig enough holes as it is. The rabbits eat through the deer fence to try to eat my lilies, tulips and everything else they love, so he spray all the time. I try to plant only things the deer and rabbits are suppose to not like in unfenced part of the property. But they certainly don't read the same lists that I do. No winning. Patti

I think that animal back there is Tealc's dog.

Whaaaat? NO April Fool stuffy goin' on??

Twilight NY?? Ohh man! ...let me guess... it's Rod Serling's town. ☺

Yepper Rooni!

Rod Serling Memorial Foundation. Binghamton, New York, U.S.A. "Everybody has to have a hometown" http://www.rodserling.com/

Rod Serling's bond with Binghamton:
http://www.danville.lib.il.us/Pathfinder/rodbin.html

~* Robin

That is so cool, I have most of his episodes on tape and am in the process of transferring them to DVD. Loved the series! ☺

I was at the gym tonight, and used a new bike with a video screen so that you could pretend to ride along different trails, with hills,etc. I found myself slowing down when riding by the flowers so I could try to see what they were.

debilu- that is sooo funny- and such a picture of the modern age!

i came very close to buying some of those "John Peed" caladiums tonight at HD. Just so i could tell people what they are. But the smallest package was like $7, and i decided it wasn't that funny.

Funny, Deb! Did you ID any?

No, and it wasn't even good graphics, which made it funnier.