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It’s too much food! Everything’s ready at once. This is what I picked just today: Grapefruits, oranges, lemons, apples, tomatoes, peac…. oh right, no peaches. They all got picked early and made into a pie. Now that they’re gone, the squirrel has moved on to my tomatoes. Every morning, I find the remnants of a ripe, red tomato on the ground. I’m thinking about putting a mouse trap in the tomato plant, baited with a nice red tomato. If it snapped in his face, that squirrel would catapult himself all the way to the 405 freeway. Then with a little luck, he would meet head on with a semi – a tragic accident. BREAKING NEWS: There was a splat-and-run on the 405 today but the CHP is unable to identify the victim. All that remained on scene was a piece of tomato and some fur.
Jenny, bait the squirrel with something else that you allow him to eat freely. We had a opossum last year that loved my tomatoes, and I just didn’t have the heart to shoot him, even though I felt like it! Instead, I left him watermelon rinds, old fruit that was going bad, anything I had around. He would feast on that stuff, and bother my tomatoes less. It was just damage control, but we had a good tomato harvest, and we got a good laugh out of it too.
Oh how I have missed your posts! I was on vacation with my family at the lake…no internet or cell coverage. We all went through withdrawal…..but we bonded as a family once again. Nothing better than hanging in the lake and sitting under the shade of the trees. The 3 grand kids played from morning till night…oh to have their energy! Home for only one day and I am once again addicted to the internet.
I did make 10 chemo caps while at the lake though…I ran out of yarn so I had to stop!
Loved reading your posts!!
K
Listen to Marty Get a Cat
I’d rather the squirrel gets my tomatoes than the coyotes get my cat. I never see cats in this neighborhood. Either nobody has them or else…. they did…….
LMAO Jenny…..you and those squirrels!!!!!! 😉
I’ve had a heck of a time keeping the grasshoppers off my tomato plants!!! 🙁
Any suggestions?
Your fruit & veggies look GREAT!!!! 😀
Jenny, your frustration is through the roof with the squirrels, which I would be the same way. Luckily my cats do a good job with warden off the squirrels…
The squirrels must not like apples because you had lots of those. Try the mouse trap and see what happens or better yet, do Marty’s logic way and get a cat, but then I saw a video of you as a comedian talking about cats once and I get the feeling you don’t care for cats. They are too independent like you said but that’s a good thing, right?…
My Dad was the same way about cats, but after he saw how they were with keeping the squirrels away he was okay with having cats around…
LOL