Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, Follow the Great Spirit, use a compound bow. Very good for your heart both stress relief and tasty low cholesterol meat. The deer are smart enough to realize that hunting season is on and will move on to other places. :) On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > Phil Swango offered: > To: LUG > Subject: [Leica] Yellow-bellied Marmot > > > > Ted Grant wrote: > > >Given when I was a young lad working on farms back in S/West Ontario > Ground > > Hogs were the bad guys no matter how cute people may think they are. > > > > Ted, this was in the NYT this morning. ;-) > > > > http://tinyurl.com/5tbxl2 > > Hi Phil, > > A very interesting article indeed. I don't know about shooting the ground > hogs then eating them though. :-) > > Where we live in Victoria BC Canada, our biggest garden critters are deer!! > > Some years, certainly the past 3, if I were allowed to own a gun let alone > use it in my neighborhood. One shot would have the local police SWAT team > and weapons all pointed at me in a matter of minutes, if not seconds! > > > > 2 years ago I had spent the better part of the winter months preparing the > garden soil ready for a spring planting. I did a fine job of tomato plants, > corn, sun flowers and all kinds of pretty garden flowers were sprouting > vigorously. Each time I'd have a look it appeared we were going to have a > bountiful harvest of good veggies. Not to be! :-( > > > > A beautiful morning, so out I go to check the garden, however, GARDEN? > There > are 6 deer, a couple of fawn and several doe and a buck munching on the > remains of my caringly tended garden of 5 months or so. > > If I had a gun I wouldn't have hesitated one second, I'd have shot them all > I was in such a rage! :-( Even a couple that looked like Bambi right out of > a Walt Disney movie! > > In one night they'd completely wiped out all the gardening tender loving > care! > > However all I could do was yell at them and throw clumps of earth at them > until they sauntered off like leaving a grocery store! > > Last year it was a simlar grow and eat by deer ! This year? > > My wife bought piles of plastic made real looking super colourful flowers, > so we're planting in the next couple of days when the rain stops. > > Screw the deer let them go eat at Macdonald's!!!!!!!!!! > > ted > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com