Posted on 06/08/2014 5:08:33 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
What’s for dinner?
High there.
How was your weekend?
Craptacular!
I won’t bother to explain LOL
I’m sorry pal
I think that Open carry (for pistols) is prohibited by the TX constitution, and while I have no issue with it, I think these open carry guys aint doing us no favors.
Bad publicity IMHO.
No problem.
The sun will still rise. LOL
That’s a good point.
Banning of open carry goes back to reconstruction days.
Is it a *mole* or a *vol*? Big difference.
And it’s not just one mole; it’s a colony.
Moles are meat eaters and eat grubs in the lawns & gardens, are nocturnal and travel just underground, leaving a raised tunnel.
Voles are vegetarians, eat plants’ root systems in the same areas, but do big damage to lawn root systems, turning whole patches brown after roots are gone. They’re also nocturnal and travel just under surface, leaving indented/caved-in tunnels.
There’s mole and vol poisoned bait (Mole Rid, Vole Rid, ; google to get some more up-to-date pest controls) commercially available, and it must be inserted into the tunnels at a junction/crossing of tunnels. The will eat and carry back to your in next, and poison the babies. Lay a piece of plywood over the tunnel crossing after poison is inserted, and the voles will congregate underneath to ingest the poison granules, feeling safety from the board.
If you could yank-up the board quickly, a .410 could be used to turn many of them into mole-burger sliders. heh.
Since Moles are attracted to lawn grubs, grub control chemicals will rid the lawn of the Moles’ food, and they leave or starve.
Voles are more problematic, since they dine on plants’ root systems.
Some articles to read thru:
http://www.imustgarden.com/repel-moles-voles
&
http://pestkill.org/rodents/voles/
&
much more here:
Mole poisons:
http://www.gemplers.com/shop/mole-repell?gclid=CPjS5_Xe674CFbF9Ogod2ygAIw&cid=25GLPST&ef_id=UqxJAwAAAShFPycO:20140609022602:s
A good tomcat will decimate the colony, if he’s allowed out all night, and do the job in a week or less. My Farm Cats would catch them, eat-off the heads, and bring the bodies into my office the next morning “to share”, and bleed all over the floor. Little sweeties.
Did you watch Turn tonight?
Hey there, my! Good to be back, on limited duty. Still having a few niggling after effects, but they’ll pass. Glad to assist.
Wow thanks for the info I have never heard of Voles before.
I am not up on my Tx Costitution, but I do know there are obstacles to open carry of pistols in public in Tx.
That said, these guys are just bringing bad publicity to the cause by trotting around in restaurants with AR and stupid stuff.
In no way do I think that it should be a problem to be seen toting a gun, but I do think these guys aint doing us any favors.
When I first moved to Tx 22 years ago, EVERYBODY had a shotgun and a rifle in the truck proudly displayed and at the ready.
Never bothered me.
When I was in AZ, folks walked into Grocers or into the bank with hog legs on their hip.
Never bothered me,
But I think these guys are drawing negative attention to us in a bad political time.
I say keep yer powder dry and get the law changed when you have favorable winds.
It comes on in 20 mins here.
Have the XBMC feed up now and I await tonights episode.
Alice Tripp, legislative director for the Texas State Rifle Association, the National Rifle Association’s state affiliate, said she testified in favor of the open carry bill last session, but the chairman of the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee, state Rep. Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, blocked the measure from a vote.
Pickett said the 2013 bill did not have support from leadership or members of the House and Senate during the session, adding that he was not “working in a vacuum.”
“I’m not a big fan,” Pickett said. “But I didn’t stop it. If there would have been support from the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker, it would have been signed into law.”
FWIW
Cousin rodents, but VERY different habits and damage. Easy to ID by habit.
The 150TH anniversary of the battle of cold harbor is almost over. At the start of the battle 7,000 men died during the first twenty minutes of the fight.
Yum
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