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Squirrels shouldn't bother it.

Deer are fond of parsley, but I don't think anyone will bother the rest of your herbs. Generally herbs are too strong flavored for mammalian pests.

Raccoons might come after your tomatoes once they start coming ripe.

Once you start planting more veggies, then you'll have more pest problems. I had two consecutive years when groundhogs walked off with my ENTIRE garden. :mad::mad::(:( Talk about frustrating! An electric fence is the only thing that keeps them out. Plus eight foot high netting to keep the deer off the green beans and carrot tops... :p

Squirrels won't eat your herbs, but they might very well dig in the garden, particularly in the fall when they go about burying acorns and such for the winter.

Other than squirrels our two other pests would be bunnies and possums. I have a possum who lives under the garden shed...I have no idea what he (she?) eats.

While this thread is still on gardening, I am happy to report that I spent a little over an hour carrying pails of loam onto the 25% grade hillside and dumping them, as my husband was dong the wheelbarrow. The job is now 95% done.
I know this is nothing compared to everyone else, but it's a miracle for me.
My upper body is already feeling it.

I need a new wheelbarrow tire. I think mine is just rotted :(

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Originally Posted by Zen

I need a new wheelbarrow tire. I think mine is just rotted :(

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Do you have a Les Schwab Tire place or similar near you? They do wheelbarrow tires, too, and Schwab fixes them free. Around here with tack week, it's well worth going to Schwab to get a wheelbarrow tire.

Well today I had other plans, but instead I wound up cleaning my office all day.
It started with just sorting through a little pile of paper....and spread from there into drawers, cabinets, behind things...

I even sifted through the big ominous box of rather depressing paperwork I had kept from the 3 1/2 years when my mother was sick and dying 3 years ago- all the Medicaid, hospital, medication, nursing home, banking, legal, wills, death stuff, etc etc. When all was said and done, I had a modest manila envelope of only the most important stuff, including some poignant things like notes she scrawled to the nurse while on life support, asking for me by name...her old passport with her pretty picture...her debit card with her signature on the back...I just can't toss it. :o

I found some things I had been looking for, and also wound up with a PILE of old staplers and calculators-!! Going to give those away, don't need more than maybe three of each, right?
Now there still some more things to go through in my office (mostly updating my filing cabinet of papers), but I got rid of tons of crap and reorganized things much better so that everything LOOKS spacious and clear again. What a great feeling! No more creeping piles! (that sounds weird, huh)
It's like a breath of fresh air, a fresh start, and I'm so glad i did this today. :p

Pax..i had to giggle when you mentioned there was a possum under your house...Now I have "Hello Possums" in my head :rolleyes: (Thanks dame edna...)

I'm sure if you want to find out what they eat, just venture on the net for info. Are they pests where you are? If they start to eat the power line poles then you might want to rethink your strategy.


Ok...now that i'm not working & have lots of time on my hands..Why is it that i've started to enjoy cooking healthy stuff? Ok, that & doing a bit more dirt time!

It isn't a toad at all. DH promised me a day of my choice, I wanted to go hiking at a more primitive state park near by. I saw this lizard scamper under some rotten cactus and was peering at him. "Are horny toads actually toads or lizards?" I asked DH. He said they are actually lizards, so we are really sorry but we moved the cactus scaring the little guy to show our first EVER wild horned toad! I squealed with delight. I took a photo but his camo is really good so I don't think we will ever have anything more than the memory. Dad said you used to see them all the time but no more and DH said they are a threatened species.

We saw a lot of possum tracks and raccoon poop but other than fish and some cardinals there wasn't much wildlife to report.

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Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

Well today I had other plans, but instead I wound up cleaning my office all day.
It started with just sorting through a little pile of paper....and spread from there into drawers, cabinets, behind things...

I even sifted through the big ominous box of rather depressing paperwork I had kept from the 3 1/2 years when my mother was sick and dying 3 years ago- all the Medicaid, hospital, medication, nursing home, banking, legal, wills, death stuff, etc etc. When all was said and done, I had a modest manila envelope of only the most important stuff, including some poignant things like notes she scrawled to the nurse while on life support, asking for me by name...her old passport with her pretty picture...her debit card with her signature on the back...I just can't toss it. :o

I found some things I had been looking for, and also wound up with a PILE of old staplers and calculators-!! Going to give those away, don't need more than maybe three of each, right?
Now there still some more things to go through in my office (mostly updating my filing cabinet of papers), but I got rid of tons of crap and reorganized things much better so that everything LOOKS spacious and clear again. What a great feeling! No more creeping piles! (that sounds weird, huh)
It's like a breath of fresh air, a fresh start, and I'm so glad i did this today. :p

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Enjoying your blog, Lisa! :)

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Originally Posted by kelownagirl

Enjoying your blog, Lisa! :)

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thanks! :)

is this like a random bs thread?

if so...well...i'm sitting home...roommate and friends in the other room getting drunk, but i don't really feel like being social.

i just want it to be tomorrow morning so i can strut through the house in my spandex and make them jealous, then go on a ride and make everyone else in the town jealous :D

just kidding...i'm not that vain...but i DO want to go for a ride.

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roommate and friends in the other room getting drunk, but i don't really feel like being social.

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Bleh.
I'd find new room mates.

noo, my roommate is awesome. if i felt like being social i'd be in there doing the same thing.

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noo, my roommate is awesome. if i felt like being social i'd be in there doing the same thing.

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Bleh. I prefer Scrabble or poker when sociability is the goal.