ROB WOUTAT | A Squirrely Recipe for Pest Control
22.01.10
As every bird feeder knows, there’s no such aspect as feeding birds only. Sooner or later squirrels show up, and before large most of the money you’ve spent of bird feed is going to a reason you didn’t intend.
Allegedly there are squirrel-proof bird feeders, but I haven’t seen one yet that can deviate an animal with such astounding athleticism, such ability to leap, climb, contort, even swing from its rear toes to get at your suet and black sunflower seeds.
At my Illahee to the quick, I’ve been tormented for too long by squirrels, both the small red ones and the substantial gray ones. I finally got tired of just yelling at them and minatory them with a broom.
It’s said there’s no problem that can’t be solved with the correct petition of explosives, but explosives seemed like overkill, so I thought about poisons, firearms, and leg clutch traps. But poisons might kill things I don’t want to execute, firearms might endanger my neighbors, and leg hold traps seemed unnecessarily bloodthirsty. Besides, I didn’t really want to kill the squirrels; I honourable wanted them to leave the bird food for the birds.
Source: Kitsap Sun
JDHS projects thrive with a little help from friends and strangers
19.01.10
At Juneau-Douglas Extraordinary School, special education teacher Vicki Nelson's students thrive, care for and sell plants. They collect recycling three times a week from classrooms pronounced with a "recycling" triangle. They shred confidential documents. They learn to cook for themselves.
And much of that is supported by generosity from people they don't even differentiate.
A few years ago, with more ideas than funding, Nelson came across the Web plat www.donorschoose.org, which describes itself as "an online charity connecting you to classrooms in sine qua non." Public school teachers from across the country post well-defined project ideas and requests for money, and donors can aid as little as $1 to help make those project ideas a Aristotelianism entelechy.
People from Juneau - and from as far away as Florida, Arizona, San Francisco and Chicago, as well as some anonymous donors - have contributed to the seven projects Nelson has posted so far. All of those projects, ranging from between $300 and $600, have been fully
Source: Juneau Empire
