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Janet Wilder[_1_] Janet Wilder[_1_] is offline
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BD wrote:
> "Michael "Dog3"" > wrote in message
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>> "James Silverton" > news:b2sxl.1732$SU3.321
>> @nwrddc02.gnilink.net: in rec.food.cooking
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>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> It froze quite solidly last night and the horn-rats ate about a hundred
>>> crocuses! They are obviously not poisonous to them.

>> Oh Gawd. What are "horn-rats"? Whatever they are I don't want them. I'm
>> still grateful the English Bluebells I planted in the fall escaped the
>> wrath of the tree-rats around here. They're digging up a storm. I don't
>> know how those itty bitty squirrels can dig a giant pot hole. Mean little
>> *******s.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> --
>> “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your
>> words.”
>> ~Elbert Hubbard
>>
>> You can find me at: - michael at lonergan dot us dot com

>
> I hate them. I had a buck and 3 doe in my backyard last night. I've
> planted the tulips, crocus and daff's in the front yard, but they have been
> bold lately.
>
>

They don't like daffodils, IIRC. I used to get them in my yard in New
Jersey. They ate my tulip bulbs even when I planted them with dried
blood. They ate the GD rose bushes, thorns and all! One weekend we went
camping and came home to fins $100 worth of Impatiens chewed to the roots.

Broke me from crying when I watched "Bambi", that's for sure!

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Janet Wilder
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