hello

[bird]

I've been absent for a while, as is often the case. But, I just wanted to check in with my wrench buddies and say hello. Nine months after that truly ridiculous "hall" I'm getting close to breaking even.  That's ok, because I think I still have over 50 percent of the tools to sell.  Well, things could be better, but they can ALWAYS be worse. So, I'll choose to count my blessings --- my family, my friend Anne, my dogs, and the beyond beautiful blue ridge mountains in which I reside.  Oh, and my wrench buddies :)
     I hope that everyone is doing well.  The weather here has been beyond crazy.... it was 44 degrees at night  five days ago, and 90 degrees today. There's something going on.... I think the climate is changing .... call me crazy, but things don't seem to be following the "normal" weather pattern. But, I could be wrong :)
       I've been missing going on the "hunt" for tools. But, I had to absolutely and positively cut myself off from buying tools after the past "tool haul" .... and you all know how big of a haul that one was!  In case you don't know, it was 8 PALLETS of tools. ... not what any sane person would buy.   I still get odd looks at the farmer's market ..... "are you the one that bought all of those tools last summer?"  Of course, I also get, "do you still have that old volvo? Haven't you had that for 30 years?"
        That, in itself, is comical. Of course I haven't had the car for thirty years. I would have been 10 years old!!!! But, in small towns, time can be somewhat elusive ... which is good and bad. I can endlessly count the "pros" and "cons" of a small mountain town. But, in general, the "pros" out weigh the "cons".
     I don't have much of a garden yet this year. I have great raspberry, onion, and strawberry patches. But, I don't have much else planted yet. Last year and the year before were awful years for a garden. I think I'll stick with a few tomato and pepper plants.  I'm not planting those beans again until I find a way to fence off or shoot the rabbits.  I don't own a gun.... I'm probably the only person I know who doesn't own one.... so the fence is my best option.
        I love you all
cheers
jenny bird

[p_toad]

  Happy to see you here and hope things are going somewhat better.   You could always chuck a wrench at the rabbits and then try to boomerang it back to you.     Or better still, teach the dog to retrieve them like sticks.   

[turnnut]

 Hi Jenny,  glad to hear that you are doing OK, 

  as for the huge tool buying episode, that is a lesson that you will remember, you took a chance to try it, in the long run,
  you may show a profit, but the stories that you could write about tool buying/selling is worth more than you realize.

   I wish you the best of luck from here on, keep your chin up.

   catch some rabbits and cage them, then put up a sign to tell the local folks that you have wrench collecting rabbits for sale.
   they will come to see the wrench collecting rabbits and may buy some of your wrenches and tools, good luck.

     

[amecks]

   Chicken wire will keep the rabbits out.  The small metal stakes make it easy to attach the wire with their punched out tabs.   Unless the rabbits are motivated enough to dig under the wire.  Our garden is in wood sided raised beds so they can't really get under the wire.
   Glad to hear things are getting a bit better.
Al

[Chillylulu]

Jenny,

We're having rabbit issues in flower gardens this year.  Last week I applied some of that stinky stuff. The rabbits got right out of those gardens, as I was squirting it around the edges. I have to reapply every couple of weeks, but for now they are avoiding the gardens. They go in the grass and street, but not where I sprayed. The squirrels run through the areas on their way to trees, but now if they come down in the sprayed areas they hustle it on out of there.

I even ended getting a couple of squirts on a rabbit. The other rabbits probably nicknamed him Stinky.  I hope that it was the rabbit that kept sitting on on my flowers,  or the one digging up my Dahlias.

I got it at Lowes, Deer and Rabbit repellent.  Msde with stinky egg solids, has an urea smell when wet, no smell when dry.  I wouldn't spray it directly on vegetables, but on some leaves and around the perimeter.

Chilly

[Northwoods]

Good to hear from you!  Keep looking up!

[Bill Houghton]

I even ended getting a couple of squirts on a rabbit.

Chilly,

You may be on to something here.  Hit all the male rabbits in your neighborhood with that stuff during breeding season, and presto! No more bunnies, as all the does turn up their little pink noses at the smelly bucks.  Keep it up for a while, and you could reduce your rabbit population dramatically.