'I wish you'd love me more", I said.
Off Topic Levity
"Yea, well that ship has sailed and it sunk!"
That's what my wife replied when we were having a wee bit of an arguement about whether or not a single shot pump BB gun needs a scope in it or not.
I've planted wheat in a few of my garden beds and squirrels are out there eating the berries off the stalks. So she went out on the deck with the BB gun and was complaining how it needs to be an open site. Ugh. Dispair hangs in the air, not because she doesn't love me anymore, but because she thinks she's right.
Hope you all enjoy a little bit of levity this morning.
This post is clearly WAY off topic for GAW - this sort of thing belongs in the Daily Thread/General Chat thread...
I'm going to leave it open and see where it goes vs deleting it...
Don't shoot your eye out...
Thanks Boss!! I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers, just wanted to put a smile on somebody's face who might be having a worse day than myself.
I appreciate the suggestions on how to deal with the wife and wildlife. I ought to get her a new rifle and let her take care of my varmint problem. Maybe her frustration level with me would decrease if she can take it out on a few rats with tails.
Get her a decent air gun and let her spec out the sights the way she wants.
I find a .22 with a scope to be some of the most fun you can have legally.
That would be fine, but I live in the city with neighbors who live down below my garden. Don't want any ricochets bouncing off their houses.
Subsonic : keeps the neighbors happy
If we allow too many of these OT posts, then ASSumptions get made and confusion ensues...I hope you understand.
Yes I do. But the way she replied to my question made me laugh and I just wanted to spread some cheer.
Give her a .410 for her birthday.
Then she won't miss.
But the cops would come a' running thinking something nefarious was transpiring. Good idea, though.
A bit hard on the Wheat
Get a couple of cats instead
Wolf urine freaks tf out of any prey animal
Squirrels are rodents. Their rodent teeth can eat through the garage and the house soffits. Whatever means necessary.
Aim for the nuts, easy target no scope needed
Make Gardens Safe Again.
Bro. Get her the gun she wants.
So, the wife just went to bed. I asked her if the love she has for me is still on the bottom of the ocean. She said, yep. Well, at least there is tomorrow. Good night everyone. Don't forget to say "I love you" to your loved ones.
bunch of borderline animal cruelty psychopaths ITT crying about wildlife eating fruit waaa waaaa wuss
Ummm, I have a fenced in garden plot. It's about 50' x 30', with half of it in wheat. Outside of the fence is a quarter acre of wheat. They have ample opportunity to eat all of the wheat to their hearts content. Yea, I get pissed at the squirrels eating the wheat, but what really gets my onion boiling is the deer. Last year I was about one week away from harvesting the wheat and one night the deer came in and mowed it down slicker than any combine could. IN ONE NIGHT, AARRGGHHH. So this year I fenced in my garden hoping they wouldn't touch that wheat and now the squirrels have begun where the deer left off. So yea, I think I have a right to be a little upset about rodents decimating my crops. But there is always next year and my wife just might have a new tool to fend them off.
Ok and? box it in stop torturing small animals
I have it boxed in. Yet the squirrels jump the fence. Honestly I didn't know they would eat wheat berries. I figured they liked acorns, walnuts, and other such nuts. This was a new and interesting development. Plus, if you knew me, you'd understand that I personally do not like to harm animals. They deserve to live......unless I am starving and need to fill my gut. To me I'd rather go down to the grocery store and purchase my meat, not go into the wildness and harvest it. Thus I fenced the garden from the wheat field. If you have any options of keeping the wildlife off of my property, I'm all ears. I've thought of a sonic wave generator that makes the deer not want to be near it, but my property is such an odd shape I'd have to have many of the generators. Scarecrows? Scents? I've contemplated them all, but I'm a poor white dude who doesnt have a lot of spending cash to keep animals off my property. A fence that surrounds my property would not be applicable because the deer would jump it easily and I'd need it to be 8' tall to keep them out. That would be an expensive endeavor because I have very hard bedrock just inches below the topsoil. It would take a huge effort to just drill the post poles. And I think a 8' tall fence would look ugly, thus the neighbors wouldn't like it. So, I just grit my teeth and live with the wildlife and hope they stay away.
Try peeing on your fence posts. That's what one of my male family members swore by.
I've found for moose, high fences and pink surveyors tape flapping in the wind at their eye level helps a bit.