There's Always The Weather

[moi621 (imported)]

60s centigrade or fahrenheit? You mean 0.9 dekasquirrels?

The count is now 1.1 dekasquirrels. How many in a metric dozen?

I live in a suburb. How can there be so many squirrels?

It is suppose to warm up to the low 80's in a few day.

Should be good for my struggling corn.

While it rains in northern and central Greatest State of California

the storms just deliver some cooler air and clouds in the O.C.

Temps between 55 at night and high 60's during the day.

Numbers represent the Lord's, American measuring units.

Moi

[Dave (imported)]

I hope that y'all know -- one of the first assigned questions in Chemical Engineering 1 -- Unit Operations is:

"Calculate the speed of light in Furlongs per Fortnight.

The second question was two parts and asked for the surface of the State of Pennsylvania in hectares and what was the depth of rainfall in imperial gallons per hectare.

And that is an essential part of learning a big chunk of Chemical Engineering called "dimensional analysis".

[Arab Nights (imported)]

And those who passed are known to the loosey goosey conceptual artistic types as 3d analists.

[Paolo]

I had a squirrel here in the bird feeder the other day. The wind was blowing, and the feeder began to swing. It hangs from a low tree branch. Then down came feeder, squirrel and all. He must have been really offended, as he's not come back.

We've started baseball pictures, and I'm up to my eyeballs in kids who can't stand up without wobbling, and don't know how to smile. It's like a photo shoot of the gang at the bar for 'last call'. Then there's the famous, "OK, on 3, we'll take 2 pictures..."

"BUT I HAVE TO PEE!"

Really, Junior, you didn't have to pee 2 minutes ago, now it's a crisis? What is this, enlarged prostate at age 6?

It always brings the sun out, too, which I DON'T want for picture days. I have to drag out reflectors, use fill flash, and all that rot... But after the weather being so dank and gray for so long, I'm not complaining. All my sprouted garden plants are so leggy, all stems, that it's going to be a neat trick getting them going. Jesus A. was kind enough to send me some fancy pepper seeds, only 1 of which germinated, so I guess I'll start a few more and just bring them in for winter. I had 2 pepper plants survive the winter in pots. If that squirrel comes back, he'll get a nasty surprise from those Padrone peppers.

[mandler1 (imported)]

I've heard that moth balls in the garden are supposed to discourage squirrels, though I have never put it to the test myself

My solution has always been to plant things squirrels don't like

squirrels are just rats with cute fluffy tails

[moi621 (imported)]

The count is now 1.2 dekasquirrels.

When it was like one squirrel occassionally spotted, that was okay.

But, 1.2 dekasquirrels, that's 12 or a dozen in American,

is obviously too many squirrels in this end of suburbia.

I do enjoy my garden and the squirrels enjoy the loquats, tiny green avocados,

apricots, etc.

The sweet shelling peas are

some seven feet tall and the lower pods are sweet

with tender shells sweeter than the peas inside which are big. I pick, destring and eat.

Today I planted mixed spinach seeds again and 2 kinds of seedless watermelon seeds.

Some weeks ago I spotted a rabbit in my front yard. I heard from neighbors there was a rabbit about.

If it gets into my lettuce, arugula, or future spinach <hope> <hope> it will not be so cute anymore. And I imagine trapping to be more difficult and peanut butter is probably not a rabbit lure. What is? A carrot?

Moi

PS No to mothballs. OFBK (Old Fat Black Kitty) now 18 years old would probably not like them.

It's her yard too. She use to be quite a rat killer and consumed them in her youth.

[moi621 (imported)]

Weather fronts that bring rain to the north bring cool breezes and

cloudy skies to the O.C. Gray clouds. White clouds. Partially cloudy. Totally cloudy. And hazy too.

All in the matter of 1 hour. That's 100 centiminutes in Metric where 1 hour is a tenth of a day. No it can't be over 2.4 hours American. <recalculating> <recalculating music> I must mean 42.6 not 100 to be 1 / 2.4th of a Metric hour. And that's why we should all be American.

Squirrel #15 has been relocated.

I am thinking of spray painting them with food coloring in order to tag them and see if the do return.

And I saw #16 skipping around my yard. He got too near an occupied bird house and the bird did dives at him chasing him away. They crush by Sweet Shelling Peas that stand over 7' tall. I never imaged. They just keep growing up.

Moi

[devi (imported)]

I did once devise a metric clock and calendar myself for some strange reason. -Even divided the world into ten time zones. I called the hours decigyros or "didges" for short. Then the ten day week I called a decagyro or "deck" for short. Then there's the milligyros or "midges" , "cenges", and the three year long " kilogyro". A "gyro" is one spin of the earth. Oh yeah, I put the international date line in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Pacific. AD 2000 came out to the year 666 though unless I set the initial date to another (maybe Buddhist) beginning. Itiota soy. So much for stardate such and such.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

Around my city lot and the surrounding lots I have at rough count 3 decasquirrels . They are gray/brown, black and white (albino and just white). They climb all over the house since I cut down a very large cottonwood tree. Once in awhile one loses footing and I have the pleasure of hearing him scramble before falling off the roof. Just for the record the temp here is going to be at or below freezing tonight with possible light snow. --FLO--

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

The temperature here today is 84 F. in beautiful sunny California. I rarely see squirrels.