It’s been a quiet couple of weeks at Casa de Fire Ant, at least from a trapping perspective. I haven’t bothered to bait the raccoon trap for a variety of reasons — laziness being at the top of the list — although the armadillo trap has been armed and routinely ignored. I assume that either… Continue reading The Fugitive Fox
Month: January 2018
A Post-Modern Jukebox Sampler
It’s Sunday morning and I’m losing a fight with a cold and/or allergies, and I’m taking the lazy way out by blogging someone else’s material…in this case (because, really, most of my stuff is stolen plagiarized borrowed from someone else) some music videos from Scott Bradlee’s Post-Modern Jukebox. SBPMJ (hereafter referred to as PMJ for… Continue reading A Post-Modern Jukebox Sampler
Newsflash: Local Wildlife Gets Wilder
The local raccoon population has apparently spread the word that my sardine-baited trap is to be ignored. For the past several nights, the bait has gone untouched and the trap unsprung. Photographic evidence of raccoon inspectors makes this all the more frustrating. That’s not to say that the setup hasn’t attracted other, more exotic animals.… Continue reading Newsflash: Local Wildlife Gets Wilder
Outfoxed
In my role as a wannabe trapper I’ve grown accustomed to being outsmarted by raccoons, who have frequently escaped with the bait without being captured. However, I’m now being outfoxed by an actual fox. Here’s what happened last night: I didn’t catch footage of the sardine abscondishment, but the tin was missing in another video… Continue reading Outfoxed
A New Year’s Day Surprise: Ice Flowers
New Year’s Day in the Texas Hill Country was a cold, dreary, and breezy one. Temperatures hovered in the 20s for most of the day, and the sun never made an appearance. It was a good day for staying inside, eating black-eyed peas, and watching football. That was basically my agenda for the day, until… Continue reading A New Year’s Day Surprise: Ice Flowers