Did you miss me? I’ve been berry, berry busy, working on a special pwoject to defeat those wascally wabbits, and it’s finally finished. I pwesent to you the world’s most time-consuming Anti-Bunny/Tumbleweed Gate:
This gate took me approximately 18,000 hours to complete, with 463 discreet steps and 139 different tools (power and other), not to mention enough steel to build a suspension bridge over a decent-sized river. But that’s not important; what’s important is that my wife’s ground cover will no longer be bunny food*, nor shall this section of our yard become the equivalent of the elephants’ graveyard for tumbleweeds.
*Unless, that is, they learn to pole vault. And, frankly, I’m a bit worried about that prospect.
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AWESOME. You deserve a rest now.
Well, thanks! I was hoping you’d say that.
Well done! I’m impressed! I could never do anything like that!
Rachel, you might be surprised what you can do with the right tools (and plenty of raw material!).
I had a rabbit growing up and I hate to tell you this but if your gate is waist high they can jump it. My dad built a gate that high to keep our bunnies in the yard, and it didn’t work. Hopefully the bunnies in your area think that jumping the gate isn’t worth the effort.
Oh no! Don’t tell me that!
Well, actually, the gate is taller than waist-high, and our culprits are cottontails, which I assume aren’t quite the jumpers that jackrabbits might be. I think we’ll be safe.
But if they’re really that determined, I guess I’ll just wish them bon apetit.
You could always just shoot them … maybe with something quiet like a pellet gun. Them rabbits is good eatin’ !
Seriously, though … GREAT job on the gate.
There for a minute I thought you were suggesting that I shoot the tumbleweeds. But that’s what the flamethrower is for.