We have a regular squirrel sanctuary going. I think they are satisfied with the feeders we fill for them. If the dogs graze outside, it’s typically horse shit.
what do you plant by the woman door to the garage?
Heh. Is “person door” the preferred term now?
ETA: I see that “pedestrian door” is a term for this.
i was hoping for a different fruit/veggie. we have some bars that still have a “ladies” entrance. a bit of a nostalgia thing now.
I’ve gotten smart enough to ask them not to (well, smart enough to remember to ask them before they put the sticker on, half the time…).
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Sure, because I might walk past a pile of sliced olive loaf on display (In another aisle? The olives and loaves section? By the registers with the gum?), and sneak those into my zip-lock bag.
I’d love to screw up my karma for an extra portion of dubious lunchmeat, if only it was available throughout the store… [/s]
I was thinking more of something else entirely tucked between the lunchmeat slices; though it’s true that it’s pretty limited what could be hidden in there.
I have a tablet that uses a micro-USB charging cable. I wanted to get a cable with a right-angle (90-degree) connector so the cable will hang straight down when the tablet is propped on the table in landscape mode. (If the cable goes up, it blocks the USB-A jack.) I also wanted the cable(s) to be 10 feet long.
So far, I have ordered AND RETURNED three sets of cables from Amazon because the 90-degree connectors turn the wrong direction. When inserted the cable goes up instead of down. For each order, I closely examined the pictures of the cable and connectors to verify that they turn the correct direction. I copied the product photos and enlarged then to make absolutely sure they would work. And in each case, I received cables with connectors turned in the direction OPPOSITE to that shown in the photos. Doesn’t matter if I order “right-angle” or “left-angle”…I don’t get what is pictured. I’m buying cables for about $8.00 with free shipping, and Amazon is having to pay for the shipping back because they are useless to me.
I may be demonstrating insanity, but I’m going to keep it up until I get the right kind. (These were all three from different sellers/manufacturers.) I don’t care how long it take me.
Under “specialized delivery instructions” you need to specify that Amazon deliver the cables without going through a black hole.
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(Someone did that with our house at some point in the past. Back in the '20s it was a mail-order home… but unlike an identical house across the street, all our big windows face north. Away from the sun, away from the lake.)
We have a tree with really great peaches. But now every critter within a mile knows about them. Squirrel, raccoon, possum, birds, etc. However, luckily neither of us much care for peaches. The dont eat the apples much.
I just learned that the tree a friend gave to me and swore was a fruitless mulberry isn’t.
Planting a tree in caliche isn’t easy or cheap. Actually buying the tree isn’t that pricey, paying someone to dig through the clay and then fill the hole with good dirt is.
Now that the 2 year old tree is out of the pot and in the ground, it is happy. And making fruit that the birds are going to eat and poop red spots all over the place.
I just don’t have it in me to kill that happy tree and put another one in, so I hope we get a lot of birds who just poop around the tree and then fly away.
Freakin’ back pain occurring with greater frequency. Took a muscle relaxant last night before bed and apparently slept in the wrong position, as I’m feeling a good deal more pain and discomfort this morning than usual. Grrr
I hear you. I’m on day 3 of pain after tweaking my back by coughing twice. As in 2 coughs. Flexeril isn’t really helping, but it does give me vivid dreams. More pressups!
Just an observation: physical therapy (with at-home stretches and exercises), and yoga stretches have done more for my back than drugs. Next, I’ve got to get a better mattress.
I live across the street from a school. The school is in the process of building a new building next to the existing ones. The construction of the new building necessitated relocating the school’s dumpsters from wherever they were before to the parking lot directly across the street from my house. Which means every Monday morning I get woken up at 5:30 am by the garbage truck emptying the dumpster. It wasn’t too bad during the winter when I had all my windows closed, but now that it’s spring and I want to have the window open at night it’s incredibly loud.
And somewhat related, what I was house hunting I wish I considered the fact that the master bedroom faces the street.
We have a peach tree too. We’ve gotten exactly one sorta ripe peach from it, thanks to the squirrel army. I’ve been able to keep them out of the strawberries and the blueberries and some of the raspberries, but I am out of mental energy when it comes to keeping squirrels out of trees 
Last Friday I picked up plants for my deck container garden - two banana peppers and two different varieties of tomatoes. I planted them in their pots as soon as I got home, watered them, and added some plant food. One of the tomato plants was already large enough that I staked it. Since then, I have been watering and checking on them daily.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but the leaves on all of them are withering, and actually falling off one of the banana peppers.
Plonked down $200 for our Global Entry applications where they explicitly state there is an option for video interviews. Got conditional approval within 2 days, but nope, no video interviews except for renewing applicants. Well, we’ll be in Boston in a month… Booked out until October. Zero availability in MT. Can do it on the way BACK from Fiji in Nov. Feel hoodwinked and like we wasted $200.
Maybe too much water?
That was my first thought, too. Peppers tend to like it rather hot and dry. I’d water them about every 3rd day.
How’s your drainage? That’s super important for container gardens.
I don’t get along with self-watering containers, it seems as though they always overwater everything.