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This has been me pretty much all day.. Only moving from one spot to nap to another with a Yule Log burning tape on the TV... Life is good..
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Hi fellow homesteaders wanted to wish everyone a happy belated holidays and let you know I'm still hanging around I know I haven't posted in a while but I've been dealing with some personal stuff that's begining to work it's self out take care and let's all pray or send good vibes to the universe for each other
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I'm on a mailing list for a national but small chain hardware store and got a notification flyer recently that said buy one get one free on their birdseed. I've looked at their birdseed before, sometimes bought it from them, but in general think it is too expensive and the wild birdseed display area is messy. As I stood there a couple of months ago looking at stuff, some movement caught my eye. It was a rat, in the middle of the day, cruising around on a shelf about 8 feet away from me. I approached the register and told them they had a rat. "Oh yeah, we've tried everything, poison, traps..." On and on she went with the stories.
One day this past week I stopped in to see what they had (per the sale). It was a mess. It hadn't occurred to me they would be having the sale to clean out the rat problem. There was bird seed all over the two shelves and a faint rodent odor.
Solutions: stop selling bird seed. Store it in metal garbage cans. Get a cat or a snake. That is so gross. Rats can also become infected with the hantavirus which is transmissable to humans. At any rate, yuck.
One day this past week I stopped in to see what they had (per the sale). It was a mess. It hadn't occurred to me they would be having the sale to clean out the rat problem. There was bird seed all over the two shelves and a faint rodent odor.
Solutions: stop selling bird seed. Store it in metal garbage cans. Get a cat or a snake. That is so gross. Rats can also become infected with the hantavirus which is transmissable to humans. At any rate, yuck.
