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Gardening

catnhatnh

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7. You sound like a gentle person...

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #6)

Mon May 25, 2015, 11:23 AM

May 2015

...but I doubt the mice will cooperate. You have probably already done what is for the best. That nest was their winter home and the kits will have a full summer to build anew. The horror of Burns plowing was that it occurred at the onset of winter when there was neither time nor fresh nesting materials available for the mouse to prepare another winter sanctuary...

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Ack! I just cut into a field mouse nest while shoveling up an abandoned raised bed that had gotten [View all] Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 OP

I dug up a frog one year. alfie May 2015 #1

I'm in SW Ohio, haven't looked up my zone in a while, but I think it's 5ish at a guess. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #2

Off topic alfie May 2015 #3

Yes. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #5

To a Mouse-on turning her up in her nest with the plough" catnhatnh May 2015 #4

I was thinking I should build them something better (and farther away from my house). Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #6

You sound like a gentle person... catnhatnh May 2015 #7

How lovely! Brainstormy May 2015 #8