Before I get into (again) I want to tell zippy that looks like an awesome alternative plan for wet, heavy clay. Maybe get out the back how and set the bales just below ground level so you don't have to water them?
There was a farmer I knew in Vermont who would stand up a 100# bag of dehydrated manure/compost then punch a bunch of holes in the sides of the bag, stick a hose into it and fill it until it was rehydrated, then he'd plant lettuce seeds into the holes he'd punched. When it was rocking it looked like a giant potato that had sprouted.
Anyway, onto Arctic Gardening 2011:
This Time, It's Personal
So, the woodchuck is back and despite last season's numerous head and body shots with my buddy's pellet gun and some Gamo teflon tipped destroyer pellets (That ripped right through steel cans and 1" pine-- WTF are woodchucks made out of, the same shit that the
Nemean lion was made of?
So today I finally went and picked up a Marlin 60 and snuck it into the house. (There is growing warm sentiment for the woodchuck and his friend the bunny among the family so this will have to be an entirely clandestine operation) I had to do some creative bookkeeping as well, to bring the purchase under the account of "Food budget" but I think many of you may be able to follow my logic here:
Marlin 60 comes under removing garden pests
Removing garden pests comes under garden supplies
Garden supplies comes under garden
Garden comes under food budget
The plan is to use a subsonic round fired from within the house in the unfinished addition. The muzzle will be about ten feet from the window opening. The window opens onto the backyard where the neighboring house is vacant, the other houses are not in a direct sightline of the window.
I have a neighbor who uses this technique all the time and he says it makes no more noise than someone slapping a ruler on a desk. Nevertheless I will have to wait a week until the family are visiting grandma and I will have the house to myself.
I also need to go to my buddy's house and sight in the scope.
OF course I wouldn't actually do any of this, right? IT's just a joke. I have grown fond of feeding that woodchuck and consider him part of the fragile ecosystem or something.