Tag Archive | "pests"
Evil Deer, the Continuing Saga
My arborvitae are dead, me thinks. The deer had them for dinner over the winter, all 8 of them. $200 down the drain. Speaking of deer, they are absolutely fearless. I saw them out in my backyard, munching grass. I was a little fearful that they’d devour my new little willow tree back there, so [...]
Continue reading...Deer Repellent
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Now that the snow is melting, I can walk to the backyard to access the winter damage done by the deer and snowmobilers. :-p My poor apple trees. My poor grape vine!! I could skin those varmints alive, I could. My grapevine didn’t get it as bad as the apple trees. The busted post is [...]
Continue reading...A Cool DIY Fly Trap
Friday, September 25, 2009
I forgot to post about this earlier in the summer, when the bugs were proficient. Still, bugs are bugs and they are a nuisance. While surfing blogs and finding loads everything from DIY maple syrup making to free online life insurance comparisons, I found a really nifty DIY fly trap. It’s at a neat DIY [...]
Continue reading...Our First Year of Apples!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The boys harvested our very first harvest of apples from our apple tree! Woohooo!!! Yeah… we have a LOT of hornets and wasps around the homestead, how could you tell? :-p I am now convinced of the beauties of pesticide, people. Yow. Those bugs had a feast. We will chop up what we can of [...]
Continue reading...The Spring That Wasn’t
Sunday, May 31, 2009
So we’re starting June with ANOTHER frost advisory tonight. :-p and double :-p. We’ve had frost advsiories this late before, but it is very rare. I had the boys cover the tomatoes, eggplant, and pepper plants with buckets. The rest of the plants will have to fend for themselves, as they are too small and [...]
Continue reading...Black-Masked Invader Video
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Talk about scanty security! Holy cow, this video blows my mind. I cannot imagine a wild raccoon waltzing through the pet door into the house. Well, the resident cat and dog give the coon the “what for.” The music is perfect, and the laser eyes of the raccoon add, uh, “interest.” LOL! Raccoons are carriers [...]
Continue reading...Quick Tip: Get Rid of Ants
Thursday, July 17, 2008
I have heard that ant problems are bi-annual. I don’t know if that is true, but we did have an ant problem every other year, until three years ago, when ants stopped coming. They must have been storing up for this year, because they are back in FULL force. I can’t seem to keep the [...]
Continue reading...Quick Tip: Wasp Killer
Thursday, May 1, 2008
I read a story at Lucky Girl blog today. She discovered a wasp making a nest behind her car’s gas tank door. She didn’t have anything handy besides the gas in the gas nozzle. She did manage to kill the wasp, but she used some (precious) gas. And God forbid the wasp or pieces of [...]
Continue reading...I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
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