Tuesday May 22, 2018

Turns out my garage critter was a chipmunk. Found him with his head in the trap this morning. I’m must confess I am not good with dealing with dead critters. Bob used to deal with those for me. The mouse I trapped back in the winter Al tossed mouse and trap in the trash since it had laid there for at least a week. Today, I bravely swept dead chipmunk and trap into the dust pan and walked over to the woods where  I pulled said chipmunk out of trap and tossed him away, washed the traps, and put them away. These are heavy duty traps Bob had purchased a while back that are actually designed to be reused unlike those cheap wooden ones.

Another storm and half inch of rain yesterday afternoon. Warm and sunny this morning but a chance of storms again this afternoon.

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2 Responses to Tuesday May 22, 2018

  1. Ed says:

    Well, hopefully little Alvin didn’t pass on his discovery of manna…

    My neighbors down the street have ground squirrels stealing their chicken eggs. Production dropped from seven to ten a day down to zero, puzzling them until a boy glimpsed the fast moving little guys. Not a broken shell or drop of yoke from the heists.

    Traps and BB guns seem to help, the squirrel body count is 20+, but they keep coming…

  2. Barbara Fritchman Thompson says:

    I had never heard them called ground squirrels until we moved up here. We had lots of them in Winston but never had one get in the downstairs garage/house the entire 27 years we lived there.

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