What Did You Do In The Garden?

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

IF I was your neighbor, I’d encourage the keets to go home. Love their looks. Hate their noise... Had them before. When we had a sun deck, they would sit on rail and sing (at least their version). Luckily they taste very good.

My wife told the neighbor to use them as target practice if they want. Taste between pheasant and duck I guess.

 

[seedcorn]

My wife told the neighbor to use them as target practice if they want. Taste between pheasant and duck I guess.

Your wife sounds like mine when we had them. Very similar to pheasant.

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Your wife sounds like mine when we had them. Very similar to pheasant.

They're so annoying to get back into our run. They'll run right past the gates or fly over the run. At some point you just say "fine! Get eaten by a coyote cub!"

They're supposed to be "guard birds" but instead of being able to identify a threat they just freak out over everything. I turned on a hose the other day and they started squawking, freaked out and flew out into aome spruces. If the neighbor doesn't shoot them I will. I honestly can't understand how one hasn't broken its neck running back and forth into our fencing

 

[seedcorn]

With mine, if there were trees, don’t even try to get them to roost inside. Now snow, they hated it and would not leave house to go out in it. They would just look at me like “are you crazy?” “Not going out in that stuff!”

Best “guard dogs” I’ve had are geese. People are afraid of them-not sure why? They generate more manure than any animal pound for pound. Maybe even animal for animal... every step, squirt......well maybe not that bad...

 

[digitS']

Dug out some of the 2 backyard beds going under plastic film and buried 3 buckets of the most recent kitchen scraps. Found the rebar stakes, measured and drove them in on both sides of those beds. Pulled pvc hoops out from the crawlspace and set them up over the beds.

The film puts pressure on the door frame on one end and the window frame at the other. I need to find a way to straighten the window frame before putting the film on. It looks like I will have until Monday to enclose that space. Asian veggie transplants aren't really ready to go in (coulda been!) but it's nice to have some direct-seeded rows to extend the Spring harvest.

Pulled boxes etc. of pots, inserts, and ponies out of the carport and onto the lawn to count. Won't have enough.

Have to take plants out to the greenhouse now: furnace has taken the chill off, Sun's up, more to move out of the kitchen and into the South Window .

Steve

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

I can finally turn my outside hose on now that we had a plumber and well guy out today. Two different things were messed up. Anyways, the ducks are happy. I dumped their trough and refilled it. They were digging around in the dumped water

 

[flowerbug]

i'm still trying to figure out what keets are... i don't think y'all are speaking of parakeets as those are pretty tiny...?

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

i'm still trying to figure out what keets are... i don't think y'all are speaking of parakeets as those are pretty tiny...?

I'll try to remember to get you a video tomorrow

 

[seedcorn]

i'm still trying to figure out what keets are... i don't think y'all are speaking of parakeets as those are pretty tiny...?

They are equally messy.....

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

i'm still trying to figure out what keets are... i don't think y'all are speaking of parakeets as those are pretty tiny...?

Here you go. I took my camera out when I let the birds out this morning. the keets are the non-chicken and non-duck things

And anticipating the inevitable question: the tarps were for reducing snow drifts in the run over winter. It also made it a bit warmer in there, which was nice when out there feeding and watering.