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Record setting ice-out date for Moosehead. 80/62

And put up a bat house. Best bang for your buck.

hockytreefiddle'd 66/52

If you cut yourself off a pint or two earlier, you just might wake up dry.

Yep, that'll do it. Might as well be frozen if it is that compacted.

We had a huge issue in the Spring (or xmas) whenever we had a big rain on frozen ground. Dug a French drain trench as described and 0 standing water since.

Ouch. Your best bet may be to move the papers, dig down a few feet and drop a weed cloth, perforated pipe, and crushed stone, top with pea gravel for the entire paver area. Run that pipe to the woods if possible. If not, get past the house and dig a wide catch basin (there's a specific plastic part to drop in that spot, I can't recall the name). Unfortunately with standing water like that you can't do a half solution.

I did last year. Ineffective against both moles and groundhogs, ha.

Nice. Purchased. Thank you.

That is pretty unconventional but very cool. What a neat symbiotic relationship. I don't think that's feasible in suburbia, but I wouldn't mind a neighborhood cat taking an interest. There was one hanging around a few years ago that looked stray. It made a run at the hens, ha.

You will love them on days like today. The energy use and efficiency vs windows units is night and day. 87/66

What I assumed to have been brown rats that ate my carrot crop last Fall turns out to be Eastern Meadow Vole. I've got a lot of them. They carry ticks and will hurt the garden again if I don't deal with them. I'm not dropping rodenticide, and trapping proved ineffective last year. They have a 20-25 day gestation period and once you trap one in their run, they stop using that run. Other than predators (hawks, ermine, snakes), is there anything effective on these things? Anyone had experience with them?

Debated this myself earlier. If I open windows it won't be quite cool enough, so put the inverters on 64 and Quiet. With the outside temps relatively cool they won't run a lot, but the air circulation when they do is worth it.

Last dry Saturday was 4/19. brutal.

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