Girl Scouts is a
brand-name cookie company
that gets away with child labor.
that gets away with child labor.
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Remember when cable TV subscription meant no commercials on their proprietary channels? Your monthly subscription payments were supposed to eliminate the need for commercials. That's what they told us, anyway.
I got Sirius radio on my car seven years ago, and back then there were no commercials. Now not only has the subscription fee doubled, but I'm hearing loads of commercials.
I don't understand....
Well, actually I do, I just don't want to.
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My neighborhood varmints have disappeared!
When I first moved in here, every evening there were bunnies in the front yard. Almost every evening an opossum would wander onto the porch, and a family of raccoons would raid the neighbor's garbage cans. (According to neighbor George, the raccoons had been living in the buried truck in my back bank for decades.)
We had at least two regular skunk visitors. I know there were at least two because one of them had only half a tail, so he was easy to identify. They were totally unafraid; one walked across my foot one evening.
Twice deer cut through my yard while I was standing there, and one evening two does sauntered down the middle of the street, heading toward the bay.
And we had loads of squirrels.
In short, my tiny yard was full of varmints.
I'm seeing a lot fewer seagulls and terns, too. There used to be for years a pair of year-round resident swans on the lake out back, and I don't recall seeing them in at least the past year.
I slowly became aware over the past two years that they all seem to have disappeared. All gone. All the beasties. All but the squirrels, and there are a lot fewer of them.
What happened to them? Nothing has changed, not that I know of, anyway. Poison isn't likely, given the diversity. Coyotes or foxes are unlikely, because they don't usually get squirrels. Dogs don't run loose here, but cats do, and I hear outdoor cats are disappearing, too.
I don't understand. It worries me.
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4 comments:
It was a newly built horse, wasn't it? That would mean the small prey that lived where your house is now would have to find new homes, so no snack food for the bigger animals.
This is a tiny lot in a built-up area. The house was built in 2010, but it was 2015 before I noticed the animals disappearing. Most of the varmints missing ate bugs or plants, anyway. No diminution in either of those.... Still a mystery.
Possibly some sort of predator--coyotes?--has returned to the area and decimated or driven underground the prey population.
I mentioned this to a neighbor, and he said that he had seen a fox near the lake a few months ago. That could explain it, but this is the same neighbor who identified the raccoons as groundhogs, so, well, grain of salt.
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