It's always fascinated me how businesses will spend thousands (or even millions) of dollars on marketing to attract new customers, then chase away the ones they already have to save a dime.
Yvonne, I'll try it but being diabetic, not many foods I can eat without carbs. And I like garlic, just not by itself.
This is the same mentality that the walmart (and other) grocery stores used when they put in all of the self checkouts so they didn’t have to pay cashiers. Not only did they lose customers who went to stores with cashiers, but the people who used the self-checkout were stealing from the stores; so over all they were much better off when they were paying the cashiers to do their job. It sounds like Walmart might be realizing this and going back to stores with cashiers again, from some of the reports I read; but even that might be too little, too late after losing the customers to some other store.
Speaking of vines and trails, they can be dangerous for you too. oops. At least you did it in slow motion.
I wrote my tale of Kroger's self-checkout (S.C.O.), where the bagging area senses when you put an item in the bag without scanning it first. It warns you, then lets you continue scanning & bagging. When it's time to pay, it summons the S.C.O. Overseer who plays the video clip of the [purportedly] offending moment. A don't know what happens if you get busted for attempted theft. My S.C.O. Overseer that day was a sullen human being who didn't utter a syllable.
Well Heidi, that ain't looking too good either. In past 5 years have not been nice to me, well come to think of it I'm still moving, I just lost too much weight. I no longer can tell where my ass ends and my thighs begin, very boney.
I was browsing the news on Twitter, and came across a post about opossums, and the guy was explaining that they eat ticks. there was a photo of a possum literally eating the ticks off of the face of a deer, and the deer seemed to understand what was happening , too, and just held still for the possum to get the ticks off of his face. Maybe you can encourage more possums on your property and that will help keep the tick population down , @Marie Mallery ?
Maybe but then again, I think we have plenty, although I haven't seen any lately, a few years ago I did find one in our hen's layer nest sitting next to the eggs. It was a cute little thing, a baby all pink and looking at me like ,Hi, I'm just sitting here. I took it to the woods.
I leave all the critters alone. Skunks will dig up and eat the ground nests of yellow jackets. And if there are snakes near the house, they're going after the rodents.
If there are any snakes that come near my house they will be met with a sharp loooooong handle hoe or a 9mm.
I almost put my hand on a copperhead that had come near my house...I was doing yard work. Other than that one instance, all I've seen near my home have been black snakes. There was another copperhead, but it was way at the end of my lot. I left them all alone. I learned to stop telling that story. All the country folk scoff at the stupid city boy who let them go...I would have expected the complete opposite. Only one guy understood...he was an herpetologist.