From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Frank wrote:   
   > On 7/14/2021 1:20 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:45:13 -0400, songbird    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Boron Elgar wrote:   
   >>> ...   
   >>>> I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow   
   >>>> pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the   
   >>>> raccoons.   
   >>>   
   >>>   for raccoons that's like setting out a plate of sardines.  i   
   >>> often see them climbing.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   songbird   
   >>   
   >> Spot on. I put up a fence on the stairs at one point and just wound up   
   >> with claw marks on the edges of the deck and it devised a way around.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Wife wanted me to block stairs but I told her it was rare to see a   
   > groundhog climbing them and I know you cannot deter raccoons.  I will   
   > tell her that another good reason is we may get scratches on the deck   
   > which is Trex.   
      
     once in a while they break things trying to get at a wasp or   
   hornet nest.  just yesterday Mom had to pick up one of her things   
   that had gotten knocked over and torn apart because it had a   
   nest in it.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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