Religion As Punishment

[Dark Lightning]

^ I can dig it! I live in a tract home, so it's fairly noisy all the time. It's suburban, so not noisy like a city.

[Icarus]

Beautiful front yard Billy.

My city slicker front yard measures about 135 x 40 feet. It has cost me many thousands of dollars over the years, requires watering with one of our precious commodities, and periodically feeds lawn destroying chinch bugs, army worms, and other infernal pests.

Your front lawn is a hundred times more sensible. 

My back yard is much larger than the front yard and is enclosed by brick walls. I like that feature. I do have some wildlife however. on the other side of the south most wall is a 13 acre forest of oak trees. A little creek runs through it. Raccoons live there and frequently come over the wall at night. They know that I feed the birds, sometimes with bread or pop corn. The raccoons clean up any of the stuff that the birds leave.

I also have a few black snakes in the back yard. We now live in peace with them. Not so peacefully when my Bernese Mountain dog was still living. He believed passionately that he was protector of the property and would kill the poor snakes in an instant. Teddy was my best friend in the world and I was his. When he was still here, the raccoons  carefully avoided his turf. with all his self assigned ferocity toward anything he saw as threat, he was as gentle as a lamb to people and children. ............time out, I am going to shed a few tears. Dear god I loved that dog.

[billy rubin]

raccoons! theyre everywhere. so are the possums, and my son spotted two juvenile groundhogs running off the porch yesterday.

we also have whitetailed deer that use my yard as a place to lie down during the day. i dont mind them, but thyere bad on my garden, so im installing an electric fence to keep em out.

my solution to th efront lawn is to allow succession to take it over. right now its a meadow of native plants, and so its alive with butterflies, and other stuff, if you lok closer. mantids, and walking sticks, and lightning bugs. more different kinds of bees and wasps than i can ever hope to identify, and then seasonal performers like the katydids and cicadas.

[Dark Lightning]

What, and ruin the free buffet?    How high can they jump?