On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 8:24:08 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> 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.

Thought of spraying the cameras with deep woods Off?