Also old road flares work well. Keep away from dwelling places.
Posted on 09/12/2009 11:22:46 AM PDT by jay1949
The Old Farmer's Almanac has joined its competitor, the Farmer's Almanac, in predicting a cold 2009-2010 winter. For sunspot theory mavens and and global warming doubters, its on - - time to unpack the sweaters and toboggans.
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Farmer almanac is quite good...I predicted an early winter here in MIchigan because the moles started digging deep in August. I have a few huge mole mounds on my 4 acres...They don’t ususally go deep in August...But I could be wrong :O)
Gosh, I wish we would have something close to a cold winter here in Phoenix. The heat never ends............or so it seems.
Moles are good. They don’t survive hard winters in shallow digs.
My mother’s father grew up on a red-clay farm in the middle of North Carolina. He could read weather signs with the best of them. When he said the pond would be frozen over by Christmas, by gosh, it was frozen over by Christmas. People now spend their entire lives in urban heat islands and have no idea what the weather is. Why else would they listen to a hypocrite like Al Gore?
Algore’s retirement nest egg is starting to look a little wobbley.
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Are you sure about this because alBore lectured me today that we are supposed to die due to global warming.
I'll get right on that...but not gonna rush it too much; it's only 11:30 and it's already 103 here in our little desert.
Al Gore doesn’t believe in global warming. If he did, he wouldn’t be living in an energy-wasting mansion and be flying in private jets to meetings of similarly-disposed global warming fans. I refuse to listen to Al for many reasons, one of them being, you wanna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk, and Al is nothing but talk.
Oh, I think you desert-dwellers can probably get away with a light cardigan. ;>)
smiles to you...Farmers are good at reading signs...They are in tune with the change of seasons because they spend so much time outside..You can actually smell rain coming if your tuned to climate...Your right on city folk. They don’t pay attention because they don’t have to...
Ouchy on your weather....but zero and 2 foot of snow and ice is a bitceh also..MIchigan has 4 seasons, June, July, August and winter...some would say 2 seasons, winter and road construction...
For those unfamiliar with the term, “toboggan,” it is a flat bottomed wooden contraption designed to hold six or more people down a snowy slope. Each passenger behind the lead passenger crosses his/her legs around the passenger in front of him/her, thus making individual escape as the toboggan careens toward a tree nearly impossible.
Very popular with teenagers and drunk adults.
Michigan and Maine share some common traits. I love Maine, but I go in May or June - - between “ice-out” and road reconstruction.
Be careful - - there’s nothing worse than a mole stampede.
A friend once decided that the best way to deal with moles was a boxer dog. He was right. That dog dug out every mole, groundhog, and rabbit he could scent. Jimmy’s yard looked like 3 acres of an artillery-practice range - - but it was mole-free.
What’s it say for the Northwest this Winter?
If I recall correctly, both almanacs agree on mild to normal on the coast, chilly once you get to Idaho. You can check local short-range forecasts here: http://www.almanac.com/weather/
Put on a pair of gloves, pick up some good smelling dog poo and make a hole in an active run (I use a large screw driver and open it enought to put in a piece of poo) I TOLD YOU NOT TO LAUGH. Put a stone over the hole and do it again in several area's of the run...
Moles live by smell and they don't like the smell of poo..They haven't been in my front yard for several years..
I tried everything from Juicy fruit gum, to smoke bombs and spearing traps...all to no avail...Dog poo works... Good luck
Now that one is good for a belly laugh.....
We had tart cherries to the end of July. Usually they are done by the first week of July. The Cherry festival had to truck in cherries from the south.
We have managed to grow and put up quite a bit of garden produce but it has not been hot enough to "sweeten" things like watermelon.
LOL :O)
I’m on the side of the ‘sunspotters’. This winter will be one for the books.
On the other hand, NOAA, the government, is saying that a growing El Nino will bring a warmer than usual winter to most of the US.
Which side will win? :-)
El Nino is not growing and has actually been slowly weakening. See the Sea water temps here.
What has been strengthening the past few weeks is the abnormally large cold water areas in the North East Pacific (North West US) and the North East Atlantic. You would expect this after the summer sun moves southward in fall, but the water seems to be cooling rapidly. The few hot spots near Eastern Russia and North Alaska are probably non-solar related.
Not always.....
I think four seasons are very healthy. Out here, our brains are fried at least 8 months out of the year. LOL!!
I never thought of moth balls, but I’ll bet that will work also...Years back had squirrels in the attic of a home my hubby and I rented (just after getting married) Every department in the city I called just laughed..We finally found someone that said to throw a couple of bags of moth balls and ammonia soaked rags....The moth ball throwing was easy, the ammonia soaked rags just about knocked hubby out throwing them into the attic...But squirrels left...Here in Michigan its too late to try to get rid of the moles as they are going deep...I will be after them next spring if they show up in the front yard...good luck with the moth balls...
We did something similar, but we used jalapeno peppers! It worked! We haven’t seen a mole in the yard since. It’s been over 10 years now.
Also old road flares work well. Keep away from dwelling places.
Had flying squirrels in the house, once. Freaked the wife our. My kid whacked one with a tennis racket, and it wound up clinging to my face. Dunno which one of us was more freaked out.
OMG squirrels in living space can do a lot of damage, and it your case also to the face, I would have freaked out also..chuckles to you..:O)
You can get what I call mole bombs, they are to put in a run, but still don’t work as well as dog poo. I used a couple when I was on the farm...Cannot put near any buildings. I once had a rat problem and wanted to use one of those things in the hole under one of the barns...read warning and put loads of rat poison in hole instead...then covered hole to keep my birds from getting the poison...In my list of hatreds rats is second only to coons..
Moles begone!
Touche!
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