Heard frantic peeping downstairs on my way to bed about last night. I went down to see what was wrong, and found a large bull snake had somehow gotten inside. Long story short, 1 live chick; 5 eaten chicks, and 1 dead snake. Hate killing bull snakes, but this looked like the one that I caught twice last year trying to get to the bluebird nest under the eaves; relocated it way past the garden into good habitat, so it had already had all the chances it was due.
Also last night, I put 2 6-cup packages of rhubarb (cobbler recipe size) and 1 4-cup pie sized pkg in the freezer. As soon as I get around to getting 6 more stems to go with what was left, there’ll be a second pie-pack frozen.
Our chomped-off grape has rebudded heavily, so is only set back, not lost.
First buttercup squashes are set; and the Topsy-Turvy Better Boys have clusters of golf ball sized maters.
Wednesday, I chased a dozen loose cows & calves out of the garden area, shut the gate & called our pasture lessee: they weren’t his, but he had a good idea of whose they were, and called him. Meanwhile, they went AWOL from here, heading for the tall timber on National Forest lands.
Never a dull moment.
So now you only have 1 chick left-is that right?
I know we had a snake or lizard get in the house from the way the dog was acting. One time I actually went to the trouble to pull stuff out and see why she was going crazy-found a snake skin, but the snake was gone by the time I got everything moved.
Next time it was a lizard. It ran out between the sliding glass doors while I was moving stuff.
This time I just shrugged and ignored her. They eventually go back outside, and she can’t get to them, and they don’t come out while she is pacing and barking which she does as soon as they move. It’s just not worth the effort to get back to where they go.