"Polly Esther" > wrote in message
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> "Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
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>> On 7/27/2011 7:09 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> Just for fun, I'm wondering who here owns a picnic basket? And do you
>>> go on picnics? If so, what are your picnic foods?
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>>> Jill
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>> We always have picnics when we go to the beach, and sometimes when we
>> travel we will have one. We use coolers instead of a picnic basket. We
>> usually eat fruit and sandwiches.
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>> Becca
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> We changed from picnic basket to styrofoam cooler thinking (?) that ants
> could not raise the lid of the cooler. They couldn't but a herd of
> precious little critters - maybe ground squirrels or chipmunks - had a
> heyday chewing a hole in the side of the cooler and a fine lunch. We were
> camping beside the Rio Grande in New Mexico ( I think). They also took
> out a watermelon and a big sack of parched peanuts. Polly
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Squirrels are amazing. When I still lived in TN there was a built-in
outside storage room off the patio. Inside, I had a plastic bin with a
snap-on lid. I stored wild bird seed in it. Something chewed straight
through the heavy plastic lid to get at the bird seed. I thought maybe I
had rats (yikes!) so I bought some D-con pellets and put them in the storage
room. Then one day I was sitting out on the patio and watched as a squirrel
flattened itself (just like a mouse or a rat) under the door and went
inside! I didn't want it eating my bird seed but I also didn't want to be
poisoning squirrels! So I removed the D-con and moved the remaining seed
inside the house.

Jill