LJ Idol Seaosn 9 Week 5 - Honey Bees and Fantasies

[walkertxkitty]

o/` "Grainy days and city ways make me want to hide
someplace cool and green and shady.

"Find yourself a piece of grassy ground,
Lay down close your eyes.
Find yourself and maybe lose yourself
While your free spirit flies."

-- "Cool an' Green an' Shady" performed by John Denver

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[conscience]

I miss feeding the birds...and squirrels!
(You know my contact with the rodents is a lot different than most!)
Alas, we have stray cats everywhere in my newish neighborhood now, and to feed the critters - avian or rodent - would be certain death for them with many cats squishing tails at the base of whatever feeder is to be had.

SB did tell me many stories of his own purposely driven for hunting's sake squirrel hunting...in rural New York. There is a bait call he makes by rubbing two quarters together that works like a charm (as proven by my rehabbed charges of the past, and wild alike, which sounds much like the one I grew up using my voice/throat!) He would knock his prey off their perches by slingshot, and Ive cooked rabbit using his personal squirrel recipe, which is pretty darned tasty. But, since feeding and meeting FuzzyNutz and MoMo and my past charges (and Peekie, of whom resembles a squirrel to him), he refuses to 'hunt' in spaces near Ye Ole New Haunty...we may know them, so rodent residents are off limits he says. Looks like this Floridian SwampGal met her match with a pea-shootin' Yankee, of all 'things' *grin*

Squirrel - the other white meat!

[walkertxkitty]

We're still in the middle of nowhere and forever will be, thanks to Camp Blanding. They passed a law i. 2006 which allows no further building out here. That means no McMansions and no subdivisions. That being the case, we don't have much of a feral problem.

I was content to let the squirrels stay until they started chasing off the birds and damaging things. We only shoot the ones who won't stay off the bird feeders and suet.

I've eaten squirrel before but it's awfully rich. I suppose down the bayou where you need all the energy you can get that rabbit and squirrel gumbo id heavenly. It was too heavy for us to eat more than a few spoonsful. That's why we're roasting them this time.

I don't envy Dee; they're hell to skin!