What is your weather today?

[JWFilips]

need you assistance with bunny removal, SOONER than later, as they are demolishing my raspberry canes.
Sidenote, I am in town, so no firearms...I have 'covertly' used spring-air pellet rifle, but technically they are also illegal in this town.

I have not seen bunnies in years! Even stopped rabbit hunting! Sure would love to have a tasty bunny in the pot! But I think that has been more than 20 years! My Nieces husband & I used to hunt on a farm on in the 90's! Always came home with our limits ( well he helped me with mine!) He was a crack shot! I used a single barrel flint lock & He a CVA Double barrel percussion! They taste better hunted with black powder!

 

[smokeywolf]

Jon, RE; your bunny problem. Only thing I can think of would be arrows from a bow or Xbow or set out traps.

We don't miss Kali weather. Like the 4 seasons we get here and don't suffer the constant drought conditions caused by arid weather and resource mismanagement.

 

[JonB]

Jon, RE; your bunny problem. Only thing I can think of would be arrows from a bow or Xbow or set out traps.

We don't miss Kali weather. Like the 4 seasons we get here and don't suffer the constant drought conditions caused by arid weather and resource mismanagement.

Bow and xbow fall under the same "dangerous instrument" city ordinance, that pellet guns fall under.
I've tried live traps....unsuccessfully.
There are a few wandering cats in the neighborhood, so I'd never use a deadly trap.
FYI, I can get within 5 feet of these stinkin' wabbits, and one warm summer day, I killed one by throwing a small chunk of firewood at it (about the size of a softball) ...and can you believe it, He got hit in the head, with a sharp corner of that firewood chunk...otherwise, I doubt he would have died...it was a Drop dead right there kind of thing too.

 

[JonB]

Fun fact:
I've witnessed a large bird (eagle or Owl), flying low through the neighborhood, in between the trees, just barely clearing the roof tops. The bird was struggling/carrying a fat wiggling wabbit. I wish I could have photographed that!

 

[popper]

JonB - sling shot? I used to have the same problem, city restricts any weapon. I think the wabbit pop. has decreased due to cats and traffic.

 

[JonB]

JonB - sling shot? I used to have the same problem, city restricts any weapon. I think the wabbit pop. has decreased due to cats and traffic.

3 summers ago, I did acquire a wrist-rocket and launched some 36 cal LRB with it...problem is, I can't hit nothin with it even at 5 feet, LOL

 

[glassparman]

Crazy weather here. It was into the 20's at night about two weeks ago as normal. This week it is in the 40's at night.

 

[BBerguson]

Spring like weather today, 47 degrees right now. Kids and I are going skiing this afternoon!

 

[L Ross]

From a high of -3° not long ago to 50° today. It was nice out ice fishing. I never put gloves on from 1pm to 4:30.

 

[JWFilips]

3 summers ago, I did acquire a wrist-rocket and launched some 36 cal LRB with it...problem is, I can't hit nothin with it even at 5 feet, LOL

Man when I was a kid of 10 years old, I was deadly accurate with a sling shot my dad made me! I lived by a trashy river that was polluted!
I loved to hunt floating glass bottles as they moved through the water. For some reason there was a lot of them from up stream so I had a lot of targets! I loved the accuracy of that slingshot! But now I realize it was the accuracy of me! I lived with that thing in my hand and I was very proficient with its use, but you did needed to collect a large amount of water worn round pebbles to have the proper accurate ammo!

BTW: 50 years later I walk by that same river in the same area of my childhood haunts! Now it is a protected trout waterway!
I always told my Dad that, that river would be clean again someday & I saw it happen in my lifetime!

 

[RicinYakima]

BTW: 50 years later I walk by that same river in the same area of my childhood haunts! Now it is a protected trout waterway!
I always told my Dad that, that river would be clean again someday & I saw it happen in my lifetime!

The greatest thing Richard Nixon did was sign the "Clean Waters Act"". I was around when the river burned in Cleveland OH.

 

[Glaciers]

Used to rent a cabin on the north shore of Lake Erie in the later half of the 50’s and people were fishing without concerns. I remember swimming there at that time. Then it became totally polluted and now it’s supposed to be clean.

 

[RicinYakima]

Used to rent a cabin on the north shore of Lake Erie in the later half of the 50’s and people were fishing without concerns. I remember swimming there at that time. Then it became totally polluted and now it’s supposed to be clean.

It is clean. One of the greatest walleye and small mouth bass fishery around.

 

[L Ross]

I moved to Green Bay in 1973, and the Fox River, a famous historic waterway, had zero dissolved oxygen and the carp were breathing air directly, their orange yellow lips, dimpling the surface of the water. The Fox was rehabilitated almost miraculously, and is now home to huge walleyes, muskies, smallmouth bass, and white bass. I drove over the Hwy 172 bridge coming. home Wednesday and saw hundreds of portable ice fishing shelters deployed on the ice. Again, a fan of the Clean Water Act.

 

[Rick]

The Fox River runs through the town in Illinois I grew up in. In the 50's it was about the nastiest waterway I've ever seen. Don't know what it's like today, I've been gone a long time.

 

[L Ross]

The Fox River runs through the town in Illinois I grew up in. In the 50's it was about the nastiest waterway I've ever seen. Don't know what it's like today, I've been gone a long time.

Yes there are at least a couple of Fox Rivers in Wisconsin/Illinois. Those froggy explorers fur traders ran around renaming the the land marks and rivers the natives already had perfectly good names for. The Fox in Green Bay originates in a swamp some where near Pardeville, WI. Runs down into Wisconsin's largest inland lake, Lake Winnebago. It debouches north to Green Bay and empties into the Bay of Green Bay. At one point it is about a mile from the Wisconsin River at Portage. So named because you could portage your canoe from the Fox to the Wisconsin and thence to the Mississippi and south to the Gulf of Mexico. So you could travel by water, (with much difficulty), from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[Rick H]

As a kid in the '50's we couldn't go swimming in the Western Basin of Lake Erie, there was literally human excrement floating all along Estrol Beach. The pundits said Lake Erie was dead. Today that beach area is pristine and the small cabins have been replaced by $750,000+ homes. The walleye and smallmouth bass abound along with yellow perch. There is still a problem with heavy metal contamination in the bottom feeding fish but it is a world of difference from the not so good old days.

 

[RicinYakima]

Another 4 inches of wet snow blew in over the mountains last night. Laying on top of the snow from the pre-Christmas snow that is just compacted into ice. Snow shovel getting a workout.

 

[Glaciers]

Another 4 inches of wet snow blew in over the mountains last night. Laying on top of the snow from the pre-Christmas snow that is just compacted into ice. Snow shovel getting a workout.

Watch that snow shoveling Ric. A friend of mine had a heart attack while shoveling snow. Shoveling snow is known for heart attacks.
Bound to be a kid, or someone around to do that BS for you.
Or unless you’re in a hurry, relax, and let the sun take care of it.
Remember your retired.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Been in the upper 40s for the last 2 days all the snow is gone from my driveway for the second time this winter, so raised the skid feet on the snowblower again! Gonna have lots of gravel to rake in the spring.

Jeff