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Determination Defined

So remember back in January when my old birdfeeder was finally retired and I got the new one?

And remember two weeks later when I showed how the squirrels were trying to pry off the heavy metal lid (it has locking mechanisms so won't just slide).

Well, they have a new tactic that is working for them. They have managed to bend the metal wires close enough to the tube, that they either chewed, or clawed the bottom off of one of the ports; How it should be (and is on most ports):

How one of the bottom ports is now (it wasn't that way when I filled it Friday evening):

That is some heavy duty plastic, embedded into PVC tubing that they have mutilated. Now the seed just spills out onto the seed catcher and the squirrels can easily scoop it out with a paw.

Who needs bears when the squirrels are this determined?

Scenic Drive

If you think about it, you have seen something very similar in paintings:

Do you have it in your mind what was depicted in such paintings? Good, now compare it to reality:

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Timely Message

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to Cop Car

Tractor Attraction

I wonder if WS and the neighbor saw this before they bought the backhoe - LOL

Christine, our friend from Arizona, sent this to my FB page (but she said it should apply for another friend of ours).

Sunday Swap Meet

Sunday we went to the Keene Swap Meet with Jimmy. Didn't buy anything but something to eat and drink, but got to see all the bikes anyway!

Friends from Indiana

Were in town last weekend. We grilled hamburgers and talked up a storm. Jimmy and Karen came over to see Harry and Heather too.

As you can tell, they were enthralled by something that WS was expounding upon. We told stories, laughed at jokes and swapped lies for several hours - too bad they had to go home so soon.

Boyz in the Hood

Yes, today the boys are playing with their new toy in the rain.

Picture Perfect Morning

The winds have been so calm the last week or so, the ponds and lakes have been like glass when I pass them in the morning on my way to work. I kept thinking that I should stop and take a picture, and I finally did, using my phone's camera.

 
Perkins Pond in Weare, NH

There Goes the Neighborhood

76-year-old Deering man was selling drugs with his guns, police say | New Hampshire NEWS03.

One of our "neighbors" - okay, he lives a couple of miles from us, but he is from the same town and almost everyone here has had some sort of dealings with Burt.

Pillows and Rugosas Have Nothing to do With Each Other

Yesterday when we got home from the dump run, there was a package on the front porch. Pillows from Cop Car!!!

They go great with the Livingroom furniture!

Also yesterday (it was a busy day), I cleaned out the rugosa roses. I hadn't done that for a couple of years and there were a lot of dead canes for two reasons. The summer of 2011 I poisoned them - on purpose. the canes were invading past the rock wall, into the path to the dog pen. I spent years trying to dig out roots and canes, but to no avail. I finally got out some vine and stump killer to kill the canes closest to the wall. Then last winter was very rough on them (mild, but no snow to protect them), and which killed more plants.

In the picture you can see I really wiped out the closest portion - the portion further away was not done until today. Poor things will not bloom this year, and will loook like azz for at least a year, but they will eventually come back and be beautiful again.