I've been feeding
birds since I moved here and have my lovely deck. It's been fun to watch them. When I first started I had a problem with
raccoons cleaning out the feeders overnight.
So I've just been bringing the feeders at night - putting them out in
the mornings. And recently the raccoons
seem to have moved on to greener pastures. There has been a feral cat living
under my deck, being fed by my next door neighbors. The neighbors moved a couple of months ago,
and I haven't seen the cat in a week or so.
In the past, I've not had any problems with squirrels, and I assumed
that was because the cat was big enough to keep them away.
Well, guess
what! Now I have a squirrel, trying all
sorts of ways to get to the goodies in the feeders. As long as I'm sitting in my chair, I can get
up and run him off. But, obviously, I
can't do that all the time. And I have
no clue has to what I can rig up to keep him away from the feeders. Any suggestions? (And getting a cat or dog is NOT an option!)
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The President is
merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be
supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good
conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal,
able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is
absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about
his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does
wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American
citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But
it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him
than about any one else. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919
From <http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html>
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