NEW UPDATE!! 11/20 Secret Santa 2013---OPENING DAY-DECEMBER 8 @ 4PM EST!!!!
11-11-2013, 12:07 PM
#3402
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,544
Neesie, if we outfit the hole with scones and a cappuccino machine, you'll never get me out of here! We can live on that stuff all through the winter!
11-11-2013, 01:01 PM
#3403
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Somewhere in SANTA Land.
Posts: 9,696
Good Afternoon Ladies...............I hope all is well today in Secret Santa land!! 
It is pretty cold here, where I live & the leaves are really flying off the tree's. It's a good day for some of that yummy coffee & scones. Happy Veteran's Day to all.
It is pretty cold here, where I live & the leaves are really flying off the tree's. It's a good day for some of that yummy coffee & scones. Happy Veteran's Day to all.
11-11-2013, 01:19 PM
#3405
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: North Texas formerly The Burgh
Posts: 3,392
Not sure what part of Texas you're in Neesie...but it's been a little chilly here in north TX for snakes to be out at night...ground hog...or... rats??.....which are everywhere so no one needs to say YUK !!! Would they trip the camera or be slinky enough / low to the ground enough to hid in the grass??
Any mystery solvers, among us? Well, the night before last, I put out three (very, very ripe) bananas, over by the tree line (well away from the house, by the far birdbath). Figured the raccoons might like them. I put out the motion sensor night camera, to 'catch' them. Yesterday morning, the bananas were gone. I checked the videos on the camera and the very first was of a cat, sauntering up to the birdbath, for a drink. The bananas were already gone! They were good-sized bananas . . . and THREE of them, so how could something have sneaked up and taken them, without triggering the camera??? Birds aren't large enough to trigger it . . . but there's no way small birds could have carried off three bananas. DH suggested a snake. Now I have this image in my head, of a snake swallowing and slithering off, with three big bananas, in his belly! Seriously, this is very, very weird! 
Seriously, this is very, very weird! 
11-11-2013, 02:53 PM
#3408
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Texas, USA
Posts: 5,896
Not sure what part of Texas you're in Neesie...but it's been a little chilly here in north TX for snakes to be out at night...ground hog...or... rats??.....which are everywhere so no one needs to say YUK !!! Would they trip the camera or be slinky enough / low to the ground enough to hid in the grass??
We do have mice and rats, as this is the country - lots of wooded area around. I doubt a rat would be big enough to trigger the camera . . . but I just can't imagine a rat carrying off a whole banana (assuming he had two friends, to carry off the other two bananas). Dh suggested maybe the camera batteries are getting weak. Guess that's possible but it did catch a cat and later, a raccoon. Last night, I put out a blueberry bagel (in several pieces) and the same thing happened - no trace of what took it (did catch a cat or raccoon running past, though). I'm thinking I need to put out an entire big bunch of bananas (or maybe a huge watermelon?) and see how our phantom carries that off, without being seen!
Last edited by Neesie; 11-11-2013 at 02:55 PM.
11-11-2013, 03:16 PM
#3409
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: North Texas formerly The Burgh
Posts: 3,392
I'm at the southern end of 'central' TX . . . or the top of 'south central' TX. Our weather is still flip-flopping around, between 70's highs and 40's lows.
I'm thinking I need to put out an entire big bunch of bananas (or maybe a huge watermelon?) and see how our phantom carries that off, without being seen!
I'm thinking I need to put out an entire big bunch of bananas (or maybe a huge watermelon?) and see how our phantom carries that off, without being seen!
11-11-2013, 03:33 PM
#3410
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 40
I'm at the southern end of 'central' TX . . . or the top of 'south central' TX. Our weather is still flip-flopping around, between 70's highs and 40's lows.
We do have mice and rats, as this is the country - lots of wooded area around. I doubt a rat would be big enough to trigger the camera . . . but I just can't imagine a rat carrying off a whole banana (assuming he had two friends, to carry off the other two bananas). Dh suggested maybe the camera batteries are getting weak. Guess that's possible but it did catch a cat and later, a raccoon. Last night, I put out a blueberry bagel (in several pieces) and the same thing happened - no trace of what took it (did catch a cat or raccoon running past, though). I'm thinking I need to put out an entire big bunch of bananas (or maybe a huge watermelon?) and see how our phantom carries that off, without being seen!
We do have mice and rats, as this is the country - lots of wooded area around. I doubt a rat would be big enough to trigger the camera . . . but I just can't imagine a rat carrying off a whole banana (assuming he had two friends, to carry off the other two bananas). Dh suggested maybe the camera batteries are getting weak. Guess that's possible but it did catch a cat and later, a raccoon. Last night, I put out a blueberry bagel (in several pieces) and the same thing happened - no trace of what took it (did catch a cat or raccoon running past, though). I'm thinking I need to put out an entire big bunch of bananas (or maybe a huge watermelon?) and see how our phantom carries that off, without being seen!
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