[Magdalen] Snowing now

[Jay Weigel]

We have an apple tree that we don't take care of. The deer like the fruit
and we're happy they do. The only problem is that it's a little close to
the road. In heavy bearing years, I have been known to gather up the
windfalls in a bucket and deposit them at the back of the yard by the track
the deer normally follow. I don't suppose this would be construed as
"baiting", nor would the placement of a salt block up in the woods, which
we did a couple of years back. It's also near their normal trail and I
suspect is visited by other critters as well.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> That would be highly illegal in Vermont - and I suspect it might be
> illegal in New York also. This is still deer season here (and likely there
> too), and baiting game animals like that is a very big no-no.
>
> Me, I spray my apple trees with stinky stuff (rotten eggs, garlic, etc.)
> to keep the deer away, 'cause otherwise they'd eat the trees. It does work
> reasonably well, as we (thankfully) don't see deer all that much. Deer are
> indeed beautiful animals but they're also a major pest. I'm very surprised
> you can (legally) actually buy stuff for attracting deer.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> looking at the snow gently falling on the 10" already there.
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 1:35 PM
> To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Snowing now
>
> I laid in a bag of "Deers-love-it" and put a good portion of it out today.
> We've had some deer and turkeys and the usual squirrels and cet.
>
> I had put some stuff out before the storm, but it got covered by snow.  The
> deer came, knowing something was there, and dug some of it up, but I don't
> think they got it all.
>
> My sweetie put out some of our produce with "expired sell-by dates" out and
> that has also been popular.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Dorothy Collman <dac7792 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  The sun is shining brightly now, with temperature in mid 30’s. I’m about
>> 15 minutes NW of I-95, the rain/snow cutoff line in PA for this storm.
>> Wednesday afternoon, during a lull in the snow, I decided to clear the ½”
>> of slush from in front of my garage. I was afraid that if the temperature
>> dropped below freezing during the night I would be faced with ½” of ice
>> which I couldn’t have dealt with. I used a plastic snow shovel with a
>> crack
>> in it from some lifting in a prior year. Rather than doing any lifting, I
>> simply pushed the slush to the side of the driveway, and tried to improve
>> the runoff point where the mid-driveway puddle drains to one side. After
>> clearing what I could, leaving a thin layer of slush, I sprinkled a some
>> salt over it. Thursday morning it was mostly dry and quite free of ice.
>>
>> - - -
>> Dorothy Collman
>> Home: DottieAnne at aol.com
>> List: dac7792 at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> > On Nov 27, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Roger Stokes > <
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > we are not used to significant exercise using upper body strength.  A
>> shovel full of snow weighs a fair few pounds.
>>
>>
>>
>