It's Where?

The little confused woman incident was in my nearby town where I do all my grocery shopping. It has me wondering whether I should pull over within sight of any police stop and try to figure out what's going on, not turn a blind eye. But who would I call if I thought something was wrong? 911 in hopes that additional cops might have a calming effect on the ones who seem to be out of line?

Re: noise in the garage: most of the flashing lights & lots of noise can be achieved by pushing the panic button on the car remote from inside the house, not very complicated. While we're fantasizing, let's picture the rodents running around in circles in a state of confusion and ultimately dropping dead from too much stimulation. If only.

I always enjoy hearing about your garden. Same here on having to wait for Memorial Day, and then it's a short season, too short for most vegetables.

One of my neighbors swears by peppermint oil mixed with water, sprayed around, but I don't think I have good luck with it - still plenty of mice.

Some folks in this area use ammonia to repel bears - they put some in an open jug near their deck, and the fumes are supposed to work. I don't think rodents pay any attention to it. Other people swear by cayenne pepper & black pepper sprinkled around to discourage the bears, but there again I don't think the rodents care.

I think there is a good-sized critter in my attached garage - every so often I hear a strange noise, don't know what it is, then I'll go into the garage and see that something has been tipped over.

The other day several bottles in the recycling got knocked over, that had a distinctive sound that I could identify. I was scared to go in there and start poking around, so I opened the big garage door for a couple of hours hoping they'd leave. It's more likely that more came in.

Sometimes I feel like you and I are on different planets when it comes to weather and gardening. Makes life more interesting.

I have an aerogarden, used it quite a bit a few years ago to grow herbs, and it was really nice to have little bushes of parsley and basil to use in cooking. This spring I left the water tank off and put a tray of seedlings on it so they'd get the light because we don't have many hours of sunlight down here in this canyon.

It happens to me, too. Mr. Troutbend has learned to just listen and not comment, plus we live apart 9 months out of the year, but there's still all those other people.

Big Louie's sounds good, and also the nice weather.

Thanks! I'll check some of these out this weekend. Hope you are feeling better.

Still ticking along.

I would enjoy seeing the boats & watercraft, and the nice weather.

I was checking back here on Greasy to find something you'd recommended, and here's this post right at the top of the list. I'll let you know what I think. Thanks!!!

Thanks for the reviews, Martin.

Great poem!

Many years ago I saw a pet psychic on TV, and she described what a pair of cats was thinking - they used to live somewhere else that they liked better, but where they were now was okay.