[Magdalen] Snowing now

[Kate Conant]

Deer feeding illegal in Virginia

http://www.fauquier.com/news/article/deer_feeding_illegal_in_virginia


"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not sure it's considered baiting unless you're actually hunting them.
> I have lots of deer here, but I don't allow hunting on my property,  so if
> I put out something for them--which I don't--I think I'd be fine.
>
> On November 28, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>