tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post314874344314730669..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: Got Nature?SippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-90984521909696091552007-06-28T22:00:00.000-04:002007-06-28T22:00:00.000-04:00I visit here regularly but seldom comment. After r...<I>I visit here regularly but seldom comment. After reading one of your posts, just about anything I might say sounds stupid to me. You're a tough act to follow.</I><BR/><BR/>Ditto.<BR/><BR/>I get up every morning and go outside to enjoy the sunrise, not that it is anything spectacular at my place as it faces west. For a few weeks now, a young skunk has made his way through the fence between my property and the field to the fruit trees at the bottom of the property. It knows that I am about 60' away and 30' above him but I don't bother it and it doesn't bother me. Once it has its fill of whatever fell to the ground, it leaves the way it came. I'll have to fix the fence soon, I know, but I will miss watching the skunk in the dim light moseying along the bottom of the property, back through the fence, barely visible in the annual grass on the either side until it hits the dirt road, whereupon it scurries off home, somewhere near the little wetlands in the distance. I've decided to start tossing the fruit that falls on the ground over the fence, not far from its daily walk, once the fence is repaired.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-66611005742203215482007-06-26T12:45:00.000-04:002007-06-26T12:45:00.000-04:00Bissage- That is a very kind comment and I am grat...Bissage- That is a very kind comment and I am grateful for it. <BR/><BR/>For reasons that might as well remain obscure, we are extremely big Yob fans here at the cottage. I see from your avatar you are as well. <BR/><BR/><I>"But dear, we can't have him talking to any strange bees. And no, I haven't been anywhere near Joe's Bar and Grille."</I>SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-6973475957855994812007-06-26T11:47:00.000-04:002007-06-26T11:47:00.000-04:00We live in the 'burbs, not the swamp, so we get le...We live in the 'burbs, not the swamp, so we get less nature than you do. There's a mallard couple whom we think lives on an adjacent golf course. Several times a week they wander our way looking for bread crumbs, and the kids are delighted.<BR/><BR/>We've also got a beautiful thornless honey locust in the front. It doesn't create seed pods, but tries to reproduce by sending up shoots from a shallow root system all over the yard. We mow the shoots down, and a day later they're back -- it's like some kind of zombie tree. If we leave it for a week or two, it looks like we're trying to start a nursery.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I have the feeling that people who are concerned for the delicacy of nature probably live in apartments and have never seen weeds grow up through landscape fabric, gravel and concrete.P_Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130988618277500381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-20136737886169118752007-06-26T11:30:00.000-04:002007-06-26T11:30:00.000-04:00Yeah, I found out just after I bought my house a f...Yeah, I found out just after I bought my house a few years ago that the neighbor across the street had almost died of West Nile the year before. There's a big pond in the very small, exclusive subdivision right next to my house.<BR/><BR/>Fortunately, here in Louisiana we believe in better living through chemicals (heck, we make many of them), so the fogger truck comes through regularly. We had a couple of hard freezes this winter, so the skeeters aren't too bad this year. A bat or two would help keep those that are left under control. I need to get some of the little fishies that eat mosquito larvae and stock the pond with them, though.<BR/><BR/>Those same people in your town probably are horrified when Atticus shoots the rabid dog.PatHMVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15542719040606654134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-22998963147499584522007-06-26T11:26:00.000-04:002007-06-26T11:26:00.000-04:00I’ll get right to the point.I visit here regularly...I’ll get right to the point.<BR/><BR/>I visit here regularly but seldom comment. After reading one of your posts, just about anything I might say sounds stupid to me. You're a tough act to follow.<BR/><BR/>But I worked up the courage to leave this comment because Althouse linked to Slate V and I was reminded of how impossible it is that their corporate hip could possibly surpass your authenticity.<BR/><BR/>Please accept this global expression of thanks and deepest admiration.Bissagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04439910009646381418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-10156817661005049492007-06-26T11:19:00.000-04:002007-06-26T11:19:00.000-04:00Relying on bats to eat mosquitoes in Southcoast Ma...Relying on bats to eat mosquitoes in Southcoast Massachusetts is like throwing aspirin in the Grand Canyon. <BR/><BR/>Two people died of EEE within a few miles of here last year, and they still refuse to spray for mosquitoes. At the town meeting, a woman protested that if we allowed aerial spraying for mosquitoes, the locally grown organic carrots she liked wouldn't be organic any more, and she wouldn't eat them. <BR/><BR/>I'm not joking. <BR/><BR/>A dead elderly man and a child. Or organic carrots. You choose. We already did.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-88508734255102395412007-06-26T10:26:00.000-04:002007-06-26T10:26:00.000-04:00You've got bats AND mosquitoes? I thought the bats...You've got bats AND mosquitoes? I thought the bats were supposed to eat mosquitoes.PatHMVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15542719040606654134noreply@blogger.com