Nothing about boats - about trapping squirrels

Well, Gramma Camp started off with a squirrel in the trap last night. All three kids went with me to Squirrel Hollow to see # 19 released into the wild. This morning, Rocky IV was in the trap!

Betsy, age 8 posed with him at 0630 as she was the first one up. And then, he/she (the coon) went to Squirrel Hollow and joined his/her buddies!

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Charlie
 
Good looking grand child there, Charlie... I like grand kids that get up with me in the morning...

If the relocation is 2.5 miles it may or may not be far enough for some of those critters... They can smell your place from miles away... Every once in a while we would get a big snapping turtle (serving plate size and all I can lift with the shovel, so pushing 50 pounds) in the pond in front of the house (1 acre)... I would catch him and put him in a big tub and cart him to a creek a mile away... Finally realized after two years that it was the same one!
I see him back again... Next time he is caught he is going for a ride to a river 18 miles away...

On the Tee shirts, I will pass as we did not make it there and no shirts were ordered for us anyway... Maybe next year...

denny-o
 
I thought about returnees. Contemplated spraying tails blaze orange or something but decided against it. There were 7 of the critters around the feeder this morning, the trap is set again, I'll not stop until I go for two days with no captives!

Snapping turtles are bad news in anyplace with little kids. Big ones can take fingers off!! :cry

Yes, she's a cute kid, fortunately looks nothing like me! :lol:

I'll get the whole group behind the next squirrel. They're all off at the library now, watching a magician. Horseback riding lessons this afternoon. Wish you were closer, tried to find someone who would take them up in a plane, nothing nearby....

Charlie
 
Charlie-Rocky III looks an awful lot like Rocky I.
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Charlie, if you get a chance to cart those kids closer to me the free ride sign is always lit...

Grandma Char's personal airline - she is CEO, I just work there - has its' work cut out over the holiday looming, to move grandchildren across three states for the annual summer visits, week here, week there, etc...

Just bought a boat! Couldn't stand being boatless any longer...
It is a 1966 SKIPPER SAF T MATE, 14 foot runabout, with a 45hp Chrysler outboard - the boat was made in Cadillac Michigan, just up the road from me... It has fins n' everything - bright red deck and white hull, down right sporty... It sat in a barn covered with debris for 18 years... When I motor by some half million dollar yacht in my $500 boat, gonna just wave-n-grin...

Trying to have it ready for the 4th ( a bit shaky)... The seller claimed it ran - not... My son and I pulled the flywheel and overhauled the points, etc. (unable to get new ignition parts - good thing I grew up on a dirt poor farm and know how to 'fix')... Got the motor running, to discover it has fuel problems, hics and jerks - not really a surprise... The rebuild kit for the carb and fuel pump are to be here today...

The Michigan registration vinyl letters/numbers came yesterday from the sign dude... Nice looking letters... Too bad they weren't mine... I called the owner of the numbers out in California, turns out he bought a 1960 boat he wants to use over the holiday for his kids and is desperate for the registration numbers.. I told him I would send them next day air to him... He was incredulous that I would bother to call him and to expedite his numbers... Wanted to know how he could pay me back... I told him to pay it forward - find someone who needs a hand and help them out...

Anyway, my holiday work schedule is all posted on the duty roster by the CEO...
 
I have retired from the trap/relocate business. The fish and game people told me that I'm not allowed to do that. I can shoot them but not move them....Go figure.. :roll:

Charlie
 
There you go Charlie,

I was gonna suggest that you permanently relocate them to squirrel and coon heaven/hell. They are VERMIN. None of the critters we are talking about are endangered in any way nor are they really wild. Wild means not dependent on us, to me.

We had a raccoon family move in recently, I got them relocated to raccoon hell because they destroyed my hen mallards's clutch. It's too late for her to re-nest, so she just mopes around. Very sad.

A word of caution, though. Raccoons are really nasty and will without hesitation chew on you. Lots of them carry rabies and a bite can get you real sick.

A 220 conibear trap in a wooden box or bucket is the best medicine. It kills em almost instantly and you won't have to get up in the middle of the night to mess with em.

Squirrels are handled with a pellet rifle.

Capt Dan, wishing you all a vermin free existence!
 
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