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Pennsyltucky special report - more on July 4th Varmintology By Jackson Brower Wish you were here, but you are here (in the southern part) and we're up here only 30 miles from the Mason-Dixon Line. I love Columbia Magazine because it helps me stay in touch with my friends and long-time pals in and around Pellyton and Barnetts Creek, where we lived. I miss Adair County very much and always will. Amid a fairly mild summer with lots of rain and thunderstorms, the vegetation is very green and lush. It will be a great year for corn, tomatoes and the like, but almost too much rain for strawberries, peaches and stuff like that. In my semi-retirement, I only grow flowers, shrubs and trees in my yard, because the deer eat the heck out of everything else unless you have 10-feet-high electric fences around your yard, which most people don't. I have been helping out my 83-year-old neighbor lady with her gardening. Her name is Joanne Knowlsen, and she is as smart, spry and energetic as a spring chicken. Not only does Joanne know about everything there is to know about plants, flowers and trees, she is also a fearless varmintologist. She will tolerate hungry deer eating her flowers and hosta plants, but she hates racoons with a passion. Last week, after we finished some of her mulching, Joanne asked me to check out a fat old racoon she had incarcerated in her late husband Tom's fox trap. The 'coon looked up at me with pleading eyes as Joanne smiled. "Are you going to take him out to Nottingham Township and release him?", I asked. "Doubt it" answered Joanne, "My son Peter will probably just put him out of his misery, and bury him up on the hill by the old apple tree". The next day, she had another trap set under her cherry tree. Originally from Massachusetts, Joanne reminded me with her charming New England accent, "We love our cherries too much to share with those darn raccoons!" Happy 4th of July, fellow Pennsytuckians! - Jackson, late of Barnetts Creek ;-) This story was posted on 2019-07-08 06:11:52
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