On 3/27/2021 8:00 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:28:30 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/27/2021 6:27 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I did like those frozen strawberries, though.
>>>
>> When I was a teenager my mother planted a small strawberry patch. It
>> was very pretty and the berries were nice. One day we started smelling
>> the stench of something not pleasant. Turned out a bird had died and
>> was rotting under the leaves. That sort of ruined the strawberry patch
>> for us.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Ick, but that is just nature as you saw a bit of it.
>
> I keep mouse traps in the starwberry tubs, more to scare away the
> chipmunks, rather than catching/harming them. I put traps around some
> of the cherry tomato plants, too.
>
> I have security cameras set up around the outside of the house, not
> for safety reasons, but for seeing critters. The things one sees
> after dark....
>
I'd love to have some critter cams outside! When I first moved here I
couldn't keep a bird feeder. Raccoons kept tearing them down. I had a
really nice terra cotta feeder that hung on chains with S hooks. One
morning I went out and the feeder bowl was in the grass, the hooks were
there but the chains were gone. Raccoons had stolen the chains! I keep
picturing them dressed like little gangsters in vests with their masked
faces, twirling chains. Film noir.

It would be fun to find out what's going outside at night.

Jill