Links: Don’t Mulch, Munch!

Feed your Xmas tree to goats, good dog posts, cat has a cow, ceiling NOPE, and lazy sheepdog.

And finally: Oh, Herd Yourselves

Sheepdog works smarter, not harder. (via Andrew Y.)

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24 thoughts on “Links: Don’t Mulch, Munch!

  1. michael (not him) January 12, 2021 / 8:54 am

    “Ceiling Nope is watching you NOPE NOPE NOPE”

    …straight from a horror movie.

    • AJ January 12, 2021 / 9:26 am

      That would be me. Nope, Nope, Nope. Unh unh, wildlife relocators would be called ASAP and said critter would be evicted posthaste. I couldnโ€™t believe how nonchalant the home owner was about having it in the attic.

    • Debg January 12, 2021 / 9:33 am

      Yep. Same here.

      I’d also be annoyed about the hole in the drywall, but that’s because I’ve done too much drywalling in my time. Ceiling patches are the worst!

      It is adorable that the homeowner has named her visitor and now gets to pet her, though.

      • Dulcie January 12, 2021 / 11:10 am

        And what about the two P’s in the attic? ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

        • Julie January 12, 2021 / 7:31 pm

          IKR?!?! it’s got to smell….unless maybe they don’t use the bathroom where they nest?

    • tara January 12, 2021 / 11:25 am

      I’m with all of you no wildlife in the house, however at some point ya just give up. I’m having a similar problem with squirrels in my crawl space. I worry about squirrel poo (which isn’t square – I assure you) and all the chewing I’m hearing. ๐Ÿ™ But I can’t seem to find the holes where they are getting in… if they weren’t so destructive they could stay because I’m ready to give up.

      One thing I have learned from Australian friends is they are faaaaaar more tolerable of the wildlife joining them in their living quarters. A friend I was visiting, wisely did not tell me about the huntsman spider that had been hanging on her bedroom curtains for the week until after I’d left. After 10 years it still makes my skin crawl.

      • Dulcie January 12, 2021 / 12:19 pm

        OMG Tara!! I would need a therapist after that even if it was after the fact!!! ๐Ÿ™€๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ˜ซ

      • SoccerSue January 12, 2021 / 1:22 pm

        Oh dear lord! Now MY skin is crawling!

      • Georgiana January 12, 2021 / 4:41 pm

        Huntsman spider, just one of the reason I will never visit Australia.

    • Kar January 12, 2021 / 2:16 pm

      I’d rather have the critter in my ceiling than in my bed.




  2. Blue Footed Booby January 12, 2021 / 9:07 am

    My Christmas tree was assembled from liquor bottles. I just put them in boxes from presents and left them on the curb and the whole shebang was carted off, presumably by elves.

  3. allein ๐Ÿพ January 12, 2021 / 9:13 am

    I love the dog just looking right toward the camera. “What?”

    • Debg January 12, 2021 / 9:34 am

      I love the yawn. That’s what made it art.

    • Debg January 12, 2021 / 9:35 am

      I’m ded. Especially from the second round of mockery.

    • Georgiana January 12, 2021 / 4:50 pm

      That’s my favorite too.

  4. Beth January 12, 2021 / 9:35 am

    Well, Australia is entirely out of the question. I started fading at the ‘…snakes…’ in the house. They lost me at the offhand “…or a hatched bunch of baby spiders.”

    Say what? Obviously they’re made of sterner stuff than I am.

    • allein ๐Ÿพ January 12, 2021 / 9:41 am

      Right?! The nonchalance about the possibility that a fuzzy-looking patch on her ceiling might be baby spiders and this is just something to shrug at…

  5. Beth January 12, 2021 / 9:36 am

    Oh, also? We used to raise sheep, back in another life, and they LOVED to eat donated Christmas trees. To indicate the time frame, we used to request ‘no tinsel’. Can you even still buy tinsel?

    • dubravkamcvmd January 12, 2021 / 10:35 pm

      Wait, tinsel doesn’t exist anymore? It’s a long time since I decorated a tree and even longer since I bought decorations. No tinsel?!? Bah humbug!

  6. Sedro6 January 12, 2021 / 11:04 am

    I would think the attic would be filling up with possum poop (unless it’s square, then it’s sort of cute). Possum with bushy tail is cute; possum in attic, NOPE.

  7. AJ January 12, 2021 / 11:50 am

    I’m pretty blase and liberal about having creatures in the house. Most of the time they’re bugs of some sort – spiders, crickets, etc. – and I just go ahead and put a container over them and put them outside but something large and furry in my attic, that’s where I draw the line. The most exotic things I have had in my house was the hummingbird last week or a neighborhood cat coming to check out the place.

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