Well, I do have a couple stair rails with 550 cord strung between them to attempt to get them to climb. My wife is a bit afraid that the vines wont be able to support the weight of the squashes when they start coming in though.

Chicken wire fence worked well to keep the groundhog away from the squash. Squash is going nuts again, not sure how I’ll keep it in the garden bed. Green beans are going well, replanted a bunch of carrots to replace the ones that died hopefully. I think that whst I thought were Brussel sprouts are actually cucumber, and what I thought was cucumber is Brussel sprouts so neither is where I wanted them. Raspberry bushes are also coming in very quickly, blueberry bushes are being very slow.

"Dear ICE,

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Regards,
Inspectors"

It’s basically R.E.D. but from wish.com.

I put fencing up around the plot today, hopefully that works. Next step is to systematically armor up all the areas that it keeps trying to dig into with landscaping blocks.

IIRC any time an article headline asks a yes/no question, the answer is no.

Carrots appear to have mostly died unfortunately, and a stupid groundhog keeps eating the leaves off my squash plants. I’ve been trying to chase him off for a while now.

Just got the guy out who put the roof on my house out to see if he could find where a small leak had developed and reattach a piece of flashing. Flashing was easy, he popped a new nail in, I just dont have a ladder that would raeach that area. He couldn’t find anything obvious for the leak though so he just hit all the likely places.

Well, your hypothetical is more realistic than my hypothetical. I just didn’t want my voting record in my home with the way things are currently going just in case. I didn’t even think of coercion.

I like the way my area does it. Electronic machine, prints an easily human readable ballot that you then review and physically turn in. Only change I’d be tempted to make would be if it printed a copy for you to keep, but I can think of issues with that idea.

Found that there is probably a small leak in my roof somewhere, so that’s fun. Not sure what else would be causing a wet spot on the exterior wall after last night’s rain.

On the bright side, the bit of rain over the weekend basically filled my 2 rain barrels so at least I know that works and collects a good amount of water. Somewhere around 80 to 90 gallons would be my guesstimate.

Edit: Rained a bit more, definitely some sort of leak, but also rain barrels are nearly full now (I’d guess north of 100 gallons, 100% full should be 110 gallons)