Comments on: Kill the Weeds, Find a Sandbox http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/ Explorations of Joy, Happiness, Craft, with a little Irony, Satire, and Motherhood, for good measure. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:42:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AlisonH http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/comment-page-1/#comment-8687 AlisonH Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:14:48 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/#comment-8687 Hey, my yard gopher let me pet him. With a long dried grass-type straw, but still. He was cute. You could think of it as free rototilling! Yeah, and I can also remember the report I got of various kids stomping on gopher mounds at the elementary school, a dozen years ago, and my kid yelling at them to stop, that that was mean to the gopher. Then he put his hand down the hole to pick up the gopher to protect it from the meanies. Um, let's all sing the Sesame Street "Do you know what's going to happen next?" Right. Which is how my kid got a gopher bite. The pediatrician laughed and said, well, at least gophers don't get rabies. (Phew!) I don't blame the poor gopher in the least. I was proud of my kid for his empathy, (but, um...) Hey, my yard gopher let me pet him. With a long dried grass-type straw, but still. He was cute. You could think of it as free rototilling!

Yeah, and I can also remember the report I got of various kids stomping on gopher mounds at the elementary school, a dozen years ago, and my kid yelling at them to stop, that that was mean to the gopher. Then he put his hand down the hole to pick up the gopher to protect it from the meanies. Um, let’s all sing the Sesame Street “Do you know what’s going to happen next?”

Right. Which is how my kid got a gopher bite. The pediatrician laughed and said, well, at least gophers don’t get rabies. (Phew!) I don’t blame the poor gopher in the least. I was proud of my kid for his empathy, (but, um…)

]]> By: The Queen http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/comment-page-1/#comment-8659 The Queen Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:28:44 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/#comment-8659 Moles? In California? My guess is gophers. Good luck with them! Moles? In California? My guess is gophers. Good luck with them!

]]> By: Dara http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/comment-page-1/#comment-8657 Dara Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:26:50 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/#comment-8657 Darn -- can you fix my typo? It's vole, not vol. Darn — can you fix my typo? It’s vole, not vol.

]]> By: Dara http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/comment-page-1/#comment-8656 Dara Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:26:13 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/#comment-8656 Could they be voles? We had them -- they ate through hundreds of dollars of bushes before the exterminator finally stopped them. We still really fight them though. They're persistent little rat-like-things. I never even knew there was a such thing as a vol. I just thought the exterminator couldn't pronounce "mole". Could they be voles? We had them — they ate through hundreds of dollars of bushes before the exterminator finally stopped them. We still really fight them though. They’re persistent little rat-like-things. I never even knew there was a such thing as a vol. I just thought the exterminator couldn’t pronounce “mole”.

]]> By: Pat Helgerson http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/comment-page-1/#comment-8655 Pat Helgerson Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:54:16 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/05/31/kill-the-weeds-find-a-sandbox/#comment-8655 I hate to tell you this but Roger is really laughing hard! I just instigated two raised flower beds and materials are coming June 11. He stopped laughing! I hate to tell you this but Roger is really laughing hard!
I just instigated two raised flower beds and materials are coming June 11. He stopped laughing!

]]>