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The wild world is trying to kill me.

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  • MikM Away
    MikM Away
    Mik
    wrote on last edited by Mik
    #1

    OK, so I have the carpenters here fixing a couple years of woodpecker damage and various siding repairs, replacing cedar with cement board. I'd do it but most of it is high ladder work.

    Whilst doing this Stella, our adventure cat, took a running leap through the basement, up onto a table on its side against the wall and up into the joists which are exposed until we refinish the basement. There are 1 by 2 furring strips perpendicular to the joists, so she had places to traverse the area. Once she got up there, she got a little scared and wasn't sure how to get down.

    While she was up there, we saw daylight coming through, finding a hole where our chipmunks likely got in. So now I have to fix that.

    Next the carpenter showed me a picture he took of what has to be coon scat on our sunroom roof. Swell. We're a raccoon portolet.

    THEN they found some wasps nesting up at the top of the chimney. Well, they killed those so that's good.

    Next up? Rain of frogs.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • jon-nycJ Online
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      jon-nyc
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      #2

      Locusts after that?

      They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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      • MikM Away
        MikM Away
        Mik
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        Sharknado.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • MikM Away
          MikM Away
          Mik
          wrote on last edited by Mik
          #4

          Ceiling cat and basement cat at one time!

          IMG_0303.jpeg

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

          Aqua LetiferA 1 Reply Last reply
          • RenaudaR Offline
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            Renauda
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            All you need is a skunk.

            Elbows up!

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            • MikM Away
              MikM Away
              Mik
              wrote on last edited by
              #6

              Perish the smell thought.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              • RenaudaR Offline
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                Renauda
                wrote on last edited by
                #7

                My neighbour and I dealt with the skunk that sprayed Von Dawghausen in September. Found his den and waited for him to go on his rounds one evening. It was under the next neighbour’s formed concrete front steps. We dug down a foot or so and bricked it up a bunch of paving and stacking stones we both had laying around our yards. He had to move on. Haven’t seen him now since the end of September.

                Elbows up!

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                • MikM Away
                  MikM Away
                  Mik
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #8

                  A lot more work than shooting him.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  • RenaudaR Offline
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                    Renauda
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #9

                    I don’t live in a rural area.

                    Elbows up!

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                    • RenaudaR Renauda

                      I don’t live in a rural area.

                      JollyJ Offline
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                      Jolly
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #10

                      @Renauda said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                      I don’t live in a rural area.

                      Move.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      • RenaudaR Offline
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                        Renauda
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #11

                        Just might in about five or so years.

                        Elbows up!

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                        • JollyJ Offline
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                          Jolly
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #12

                          Don't wait until you can't enjoy it.

                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                          • 89th8 Offline
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                            @Mik it's time you buy a few owls and turkey vultures. They'll keep the critters away.

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                              #14

                              Oh, they sell the owls at Hooters. You should do lots of shopping there before you make a decision.

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                              • MikM Away
                                MikM Away
                                Mik
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #15

                                I have a fake woodpecker that I put up a couple weeks ago and seems to do a really good job. But the rotted wood, all we could find anyway, has been replaced.

                                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                • MikM Mik

                                  Ceiling cat and basement cat at one time!

                                  IMG_0303.jpeg

                                  Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                                  Aqua Letifer
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #16

                                  @Mik said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                  Ceiling cat and basement cat at one time!

                                  IMG_0303.jpeg

                                  D'awwww. 🙂

                                  And of that second kingdom will I sing
                                  Wherein the kitteh spirit doth purge itself,
                                  And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.

                                  Please love yourself.

                                  George KG 1 Reply Last reply
                                  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                    @Mik said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                    Ceiling cat and basement cat at one time!

                                    IMG_0303.jpeg

                                    D'awwww. 🙂

                                    And of that second kingdom will I sing
                                    Wherein the kitteh spirit doth purge itself,
                                    And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.

                                    George KG Offline
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                                    George K
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #17

                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                    And of that second kingdom will I sing
                                    Wherein the kitteh spirit doth purge itself,
                                    And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.

                                    Had to look that one up.

                                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    • George KG George K

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                      And of that second kingdom will I sing
                                      Wherein the kitteh spirit doth purge itself,
                                      And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.

                                      Had to look that one up.

                                      Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                                      Aqua Letifer
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #18

                                      @George-K said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                      And of that second kingdom will I sing
                                      Wherein the kitteh spirit doth purge itself,
                                      And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.

                                      Had to look that one up.

                                      Move to Australia for awhile and you too can fill your head with such nonsense.

                                      I'm a hoot in company meetings.

                                      Please love yourself.

                                      George KG 1 Reply Last reply
                                      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                        @George-K said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                        And of that second kingdom will I sing
                                        Wherein the kitteh spirit doth purge itself,
                                        And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.

                                        Had to look that one up.

                                        Move to Australia for awhile and you too can fill your head with such nonsense.

                                        I'm a hoot in company meetings.

                                        George KG Offline
                                        George KG Offline
                                        George K
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #19

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in The wild world is trying to kill me.:

                                        Move to Australia for awhile and you too can fill your head with such nonsense.

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        • MikM Away
                                          MikM Away
                                          Mik
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #20

                                          She’s so calm.

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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