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Monday, September 19, 2011 Iowegian Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

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A groundhog got into the patch and did a little damage to the 866.5. The chewing started a split, so it may be the end for that one. But it was only around 450# so no big loss. The varmint left a few nibbles on Jacob's 1352 Trumm, which has stalled out at 797# OTT. We applied some Shake Away critter repellant and some fox urine and then put up chicken wire around both of our best pumpkins. The electric fence seems to be shorting out somewhere but we can't seem to find it. As of Friday my 1209 Courson was taping 911#. Hopefully it adds some more and goes heavy.

Next campaign in the ground hog battle will involve posion smoke bombs. I'm also now carrying my single shot 20 gague to the patch everytime I go to check on the pumpkins. I could have eliminated a couple of the critters if I had done that sooner. Jacob is back at school and won't be back until loading time for Pumpkinfest, so I am left to do battle alone.
 



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