Baymule
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Love the pictures. Do you have a favorite place to sit and enjoy the beauty of all your work?
fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread
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When the mosquitoes are tolerable I like sitting in the shade of the chicken run, watching them scratch around.
I have a couple old pool chairs that I move to the shade so I can enjoy the gardens view.
Sometimes I will sit by the pond, too.
From February 2024:
In this photo you can see a stone bench on the left, and my storage bench to the right. Both are actually comfortable, except when the mosquitoes get active!
Baymule
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I have gnats, 2 different types, and biting flies. Annoying.
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And fire ants? In years past they made a colony inside the storage bench, would attack me if I sat there.
If yellow jackets and fire ants disappeared forever I wouldn't complain about mosquitoes. Well, not as much? Ours are tiny stealth mosquitoes, you never feel them bite.
Baymule
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Mounds and mounds of fire ants! And no tiny stealthy mosquito, mine are big, loud and proud. Red wasps, if they nest elsewhere, ok, house, shed or areas where I am, they get sprayed.
SageHill
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No mosquitos here (we do have the blood sucking politicians of course) some flies though they don't bite and same for gnats. Every time I think about changing states you all start talk of critters I don't like. I know just deal with it! 
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I figured you would have fire ants! I still am using the Texas Two-step method of controlling them. First is birth control pellets, second is poison for survivors. Two years ago I treated some 50+ fire ant hills in my backyard (1/6 acre) and now I am treating one here, one there.
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I don't want to deal with earthquakes, I would rather just deal with things I can kill.No mosquitos here (we do have the blood sucking politicians of course) some flies though they don't bite and same for gnats. Every time I think about changing states you all start talk of critters I don't like. I know just deal with it!
peteyfoozer
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Have you tried tossing those skeeter things in the water to help keep them from breeding in it? The water pump in my whiskey barrels keeps them out of there. I get it though, they are everywhere. They are so bad here the cattle lose weight so they have to spray
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In this photo from last year you can see the carpeted and overgrown area, behind the propane tank, where I now have berry bushes.
