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Subject: Re: Deterring Squirrels?
From: nicole <nicole@ocella.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 01 21:56:44
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> From: "Penny Morgan"

> How are they getting to the sunflowers? If they're running up from the
> ground, you may be able to wrap the first couple of feet on the stalks with
> a sticky substance to deter them.
i think they are climbing up them. they also might be jumping off the
veranda too. :/ i will try inside out duct tape around the bases of the few
remaining ones tonight. :/

> What about feeding them with corn cobs on
> the ground several yards away. A friend of mine made a squirrel cafe and
> attached it to a tree. It's a cute wooden table and seats with a large
> screw on the table where you twist the corn cob onto it and they munch away.
> They actually sit on the seat to eat. It's hysterical to watch.
*cool*

alas, i will have to wait until i have a bigger yard! lol! there is no "few
meters away". i have two 8 ft x 7 ft. postage stamps outside the front door
on either side of the porch. teeny. weeny.

at least now theres some flowers and herbs there though. before it was just
grass. (grass is nice, but fresh herbs for dinner are better :)

thanks penny!

nicole

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"There has never been a war": in her mind the words stood clear and bright,
surrounded by and sinking into an infinite, dark, soft incredulity. What
would that world be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace
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children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and
children, was the denial of reality. But my people, she thought, know only
how to deny.
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