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Fucking Squirrels

Posted by Nathaniel.

Back to the peach tree. I was out looking at it yesterday and figured the time was getting close to pick all the peaches, so this morning I grabbed a bit pot in one hand and Sarah in the other hand to go pick them. When I got into the back yard, I saw squirrels scatter and saw a peach on the ground and though “Wow, good thing I’m doing this now.”

Turns out I should have done it yesterday. Besides the half-eaten peach on the ground, everything was gone. There weren’t even pits left. All of my pretty little peaches became squirrel food. Fuckers.

The good news is that we had picked a few (few=4 in this case) peaches over the last couple of days to try them and they were actually pretty good. Good peach flavor and decent juiciness although they could have been a touch sweeter. Now only to be found in squirrel stomachs.

  

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4 Responses to “Fucking Squirrels”

  1. Nick Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 10:14 am Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 on Windows Windows XP

    So it sounds like your next purchase to accompany the peach tree is one of these: http://www.airgunsbbguns.com/Genesis_Remington_Air_Rifle_1000x_p/crorik77pgx-c.htm

    Teach those squirrels to eat your peaches …. Hahah ;)

  2. Nathaniel Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 12:21 am Using OmniWeb OmniWeb on Mac OS Mac OS X

    I’m missing some tomatoes now too. I got an airsoft gun earlier in the summer to keep squirrels off the bird feeders. Maybe it’s time to step up to something a little bit more serious.

    By the way, cheap airsoft guns aren’t accurate enough to even come close to hitting a squirrel more than 30 feet away.

  3. Marilyn Says:
    June 1st, 2009 at 11:40 pm Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Windows Vista

    Something that seems to be working for my peach tree, but with a bit of effort is mousetraps. My husband wired a few of them to the trunk and major limbs and something is setting them off regularly and the peaches are not disappearing like they were. Should be fully ripe in a few days and I can hardly wait.

  4. Marilyn Says:
    June 1st, 2009 at 11:41 pm Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Windows Vista

    Something that seems to be working for my peach tree, but with a bit of effort is mousetraps. My husband wired a few of them to the trunk and major limbs and something is setting them off regularly and the peaches are not disappearing like they were. Should be fully ripe in a few days and I can hardly wait.

    You just have to be sure to reset the traps a few times a day.

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