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["Richard MURPHY" <murphman108@msn.com>]

    Had a nizza plum tree; Miller's big blue.

    Loaded with plums in July. Already bought my canning jars...

    Usually, both my cats patrol the gardens all day, every day.

    We go on a 2 day trip, cats locked in the house. HUGE mistake.

    Come home, every single plum is 'half eaten' with a ton of squirrel bites all over them.

    Cats keep squirrels out of my garden of 4 apples, 1 plum, 1 peach, 2 pears, and veggies.

    Really, they're my wife's cats.

    I hate cats, but these two earn their keep.

 

    PS     I bought a net.

    PPS   Squirrels are very hard to peel. I've eaten a couple. Don't bother. Lean, tough, flat...

            Toss them in the hog pen.

 

    Richard Murphy