One of the most fun books that I read to the girls over and over again when they were small, was "Who's A Pest?" by Crosby Newell Bonsall. In it, everyone calls Homer a pest, and while his toboggan gets bigger and bigger, he saves EVERYONE from a big hole in the ground.
We have had MANY pests around the hill this Spring and Summer, but none of them have had any redeeming qualities.
We eventually caught 1 racoon, 1 possum, and 2 squirrels in the garden. Another raccoon and a blue jay were spotted multiple times stealing cat food from the veranda. They don't have any kitty food to steal any longer, so they are likely being pests at someone else's house.
There are still a pair of crazy cardinals that repeatedly throw themselves against the windows downstairs. I exercise while holding a yardstick, so that I can tap the window and chase them away. We also put colorful clings on the windows to try to discourage them, but I'm not sure how to make them leave for good.
The blueberries have come in strong and they are very welcome since we lost our strawberries. I need to pick them again today. In the meantime, I had to buy strawberries to make jam with this year.
The other pesky thing we've been dealing with lately is the mass failure of our appliances. We replaced our dishwasher in May. When I came in from trying to find our cat last weekend, I found water all over the floor from the deep freeze, which had given up the ghost. I transferred items to other freezers, including my parents' deep freeze until we could get a new one delivered on Wednesday. I still don't have everything transferred back.
We hadn't even had the new freezer delivered yet when the extra refrigerator started making clanking and grinding noises, so now we are trying to chose a new refrigerator to order.
It's maddening!
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