OT Might be problems with our food chain this summer or fall, so thinking about planting garden

got a cardboard box of pears today from my tree...more to come...a great year for my pears...last year I only got a few...pruned the tree last fall and it's loaded this year

 

Are these problems with the food chain still expected?

 

Fig strawberry jam.

 

You were right. There is a problem with the food chain this summer. Frickin' raccoons are eating the butternut squash out of my garden.

 

You care to drop by and give it a go?

 

Ha, like I'd share that with the likes of you!

Besides, the little SOB goes over my fence around 4:00 am and I know that you need all of the beauty sleep you can get.

 

Raw ripe figs are the best!
Minestrone soup when properly made is the best.

 

Trouble with fresh figs is they are so perishable. If they aren't used in a couple of days they start to ferment. Learned from experience I can't eat more than two in a day.

 

We just kept some in the frig for about five days. I could only eat one a day and our friend gave us five. I eat them in one bite. Love them out of the refrigerator.

 

While camping along the coast, my wife didn't approve when I said we used to take a spike like this for camp meet.

 

Id take an Elk steak or burger over figs any day!

 

She obviously doesn't understand what goes along with being omnivorous. My wife has never had to think about this also since groceries of this sort always magically appear at the supermarket wrapped in plastic wrap in the refrigerated meat section.

 

I'd take elk over damn near anything. Well, maybe not ice cream, dammit, I'm a sucker for good ice cream. Don't get it very often, maybe two or three times a year.

 

beat it to death with a stick. Seems to be allowed downtown anyhow

 

In the Bay Area there is a private animal control that sets humane traps and removed animals. They have taken away a large number of raccoons from my yard. Other animals we just release except a couple of times when possums snapped their jaws at me. Atypical behavior that could indicate rabies.

 

I know you hate it like I do but, please, don't even joke about it.
It's one thing to kill an animal for food but to torture it is unconscionable. I use to get pissed off in the woods when hunting big game and would hear some hunter in the far distance shooting several shots which tells me there's an asshole loose in the woods. It should only take one or two shots, three at the most, to kill a deer or elk. I believe in one shot, one kill and only for food.
This reminds me of the creeps who burned cats dangling upside down from a bridge and how I'd probably gotten myself beat badly by attacking their asses where they stood. I hate that shit.
Good God, I've gone off again, not off topic 'off' but off like set off as in a bomb or shot.

 

ohh it was not a funny joke. It was a cynical hateful joke, full of snark and angst.
I still get red thinking about it.

one of the few things that could seriously cause me to lose control. Do that in person and....

Torturing and brutally murdering animals is worse to me than doing it to humans. Animals are instinctual and innocent beings.