Tying up loose ends and... coming to terms with snakes.
Tying up loose ends and… coming to terms with snakes. After my blog about the dogs, Silke asked me about the snake… She’s right. It needs to be dealt with here. I was going to write about it later but, for all you pet lovers out there, THAT snake bears further comment now. But first I want to catch you up on the mice, inextricably linked as the two species are… Two days ago I finally covered my little hoop garden with the hardware cloth that I had, too long ago purchased. Hardware cloth, if you don’t know, is sort of like chicken wire but the holes are square and smaller. The “cloth” is sturdier than chicken wire and much more critter proof. I bought a roll that was 100 feet long and 4 feet wide and let it sit by my shed while the mouse rampaged my garden. Finally spurred on to make use of my investment, I buried 50 feet of the roll, (unrolled, of course) six inches deep, around the circumference of the garden. Before I di...