On Nov. 11, Catherine wrote: >Mo'Bob is famous... Apparently, the ferts help him on site with his (can >you guess?) digging. Boy, I thought I had discovered some wonderful new secret the other day when I took Hoot'n'Annie out with me whilst I planted tulip and lily bulbs. As soon as I put trowel to dirt Annie ran over and said, "Let a pro show you how it isnext thing I knew Hoot joined in and in no time we had all the bulbs planted. We stayed outside and raked leaves and jumped in 'em and tunneled in 'em and when I turned around and looked at the area that we had just planted, I saw a squirrel poised ready to dig, drooling in anticipation of a juicy bulb. A lightbulb went off and I remember someone (? here on the FML?) mentioning that ferret poop made for good squirrel deterrant. Well sir, I marched into the house, grabbed the litter pan and did some strategic placing of ferret bombs. Low and behold, it worked!!! Unbelievable...I've never managed to get the bloody squirrels to stay away from the bulbs, even though I feed them peanuts enough to satisfy a two ton elephant. Next thing I knew, the news had spread, and my next door neighbor came knocking at my door sheepishly asking if she could "borrow a cup of...(well, not sugar)". Anyway, I know ther is a lesson in here somewhere, but I'm not gonna try and find it! Surfice it to say that during planting season the kids sure do come in handy!! Bear hugs & ferret kisses, Janet PS: I also found out that a dig in the dirt works much better than a bath to deoderize my fuzz monkeys...they end up smelling like mushrooms ;) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "I clean house every other day, this is *not* the other day!" Janet O'Brien Zu Zu Bears [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1753]