Re: The Iris Obsession

>GREG PIAZZA said:
>
>Anyone have a good remedy for the little darlings?
>
>about *&^(&* ( I think that's how he spelled it) squirrels-
>
>I know whereof you speak, Greg!! (&^) little things!! One thing that I have
>found works is red pepper!! I have a big jar of the cheapest ground red
>pepper.  I put a whopping bit in a dishsoap bottle with a dollop of the
>dishsoap and I dose everything they might want to be around. And then I do it
>again.  I feel much better!! They eat my tulips, and after I put the red
>pepper stuff on it, the yellow tulips are dotted yellow, very attractive,
>but I get to have tulips!  And I throw anything I can at them, hoping to
>make lots of noise and a bloody nuisance of myself and drive them into
>someone else's yard -- the black walnut tree is not in my yard, why are those
>(*&^ things grabbing them, burying them in MY garden??
>        i just keep after them.  I'm out there annoying them as much as
>they annoy me.  Remember Great Expectations where everytime the donkeys went
>by ....??
>Carolyn Schaffner (someone is going to tell me that that's not the right
>reference)

Well, squirels have not eaten Christine's irises.  But then again why eat
irises when there is a black walnut tree in the backyard.  Actually our
irises are in my dad's backyard with his walnut tree.  The neighbors
haven't mentioned that the squirrels are burying the walnuts in their
yards, but I know that since the walnut trees have come of age, the
backyard is no longer barefoot accessible.

To help solve the squirel problem, Dad bought a squirrel trap.  He prefers
the catch and release (in a far away non-city park) method.  If you'd like
the the catalog address of where you can order a squirel cage, please send
us an e-mail and we'll find the catalog and send you the info.  Rather than
throwing things at the squirels the preferred method of amusement is the
water hose.  I have yet to get in on the fun, but apparently it can be
rather fun playing soak the squirrel as you chase it from from tree to tree
with the garden hose on.  Apperently the soaked squirrel looks like a
"drowned rat", and gets the hint to stay out of the backyard, but yet isn't
too much worse for the wear.

-David & Chrisine McKinnon
 Richland, WA
 mckinnon@owt.com
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