{"id":925,"date":"2009-08-19T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T17:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2009-08-19T09:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T17:32:31","slug":"score-packrats-3824-humans-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Score: Packrats 3,824 Humans 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah!!! We’re on the board!\u00a0 We declared war on these little creatures, and bought a new live trap which seemed like a much more successful type of contraption.\u00a0 And it worked in just over 36 hours; our first capture.<\/p>\n

\"Does

Does the phrase "Trapped like a rat" ring any bells?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

This one was happily building a nest in the crawl space under our house.<\/p><\/div>\n

They are sort of pretty little animals but they have no manners whatsoever, and as neighbors go they are awful.\u00a0 One of our human neighbors down the hill has caught 9 of them so far this summer and he recommended this sort of live trap.\u00a0 We hate killing things but these guys are now on the exception list.\u00a0 The live trap is now back in place and we will work on cleaning out the crawl space and after we’re sure all those are gone, we will move the trap to the deck and start removing them from the immediate vicinity.\u00a0 Since we don’t have a dog or cat outside to keep them away, we will have to make this our job on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n

Summer has returned, with record high temperatures forecast for today and perhaps into the weekend.\u00a0 Last weeks’ rainy and cool weather really spoiled us quickly.\u00a0 This morning Dan was watching a helicopter with what appeared to be a bucket slung underneath; it was flying around back and forth for a while.\u00a0 Hopefully they were merely practicing and not actually dumping water on a fire anywhere.\u00a0 No smell of smoke in the air and the sky is very clear so far today.\u00a0 The sunset last night was quite amazing looking but alas I was too lazy to go outside and take a picture of it.\u00a0 The smoke in the air to the west intensified the color to dark red.\u00a0 If it does that again this evening, will take a picture.<\/p>\n

I made another batch of the lemon\/coconut\/dried blueberry muffins.\u00a0 Most yummy.\u00a0 We don’t even bother freezing this kind as they get eaten quickly.<\/p>\n

\"You

You would never guess these are gluten free and dairy free.<\/p><\/div>\n

For lunch today I’ll be fixing more of the Amy’s gluten free veggie burgers.\u00a0 It will be too warm to cook this evening, so we’ll just have some ice cold watermelon instead.\u00a0 Obviously we are enduring great hardship and suffering out here in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah!!! We’re on the board!\u00a0 We declared war on these little creatures, and bought a new live trap which seemed like a much more successful type of contraption.\u00a0 And it worked in just over 36 hours; our first capture. They are sort of pretty little animals but they have no manners whatsoever, and as neighbors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}