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What's the strangest thing you've found in your stacks

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  1. DaveGunter

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    Yesterday, I found a HEAD






















    of garlic. Perfectly peeled, every clove, not eaten in the least, not rotten, perched on top of the top split just under the tarp. I have no explanation, I harvested my garlic two months ago and the only neighbor within 1/2 mile does not have a garden. Wish I had taken a picture.
     
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    Jackrabbit fur, on top of a 6 ft. stack.
     
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    More wood.
     
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    Haha! Cracked me up.
     
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    A frog or toad was sitting on a split just inside the stack, and it must have changed color like a chameleon. It matched the gray bark.
     
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    Al, those things can hide really well. They also love to hide on LP tanks, especially right on the gauges.
     
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    Found a bunch of feathers on a stack a few days ago. No carcass.
    Casper found a mole carcass a couple weeks ago, and promptly rolled all over it. It wasn't on a stack.
     
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    This guy.

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    That pic reminded me Blue, I've had 3 of those little guys come out of the stacks in the field this year.
    One flew out kind of sluggishly, and the other 2 fell out, then flew off.
    I should put up a bathouse back there.
     
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    earthworms
    near the top
    how they get there and why they go there I dunno


    In the Fall I find my pears, darn squirrels chew them to bits for the seeds. Bastards.
     
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    I found (and eradicated) a HUGE yellow jacket nest in my stacks this past summer.....there were a HEAP of bees in that nest, it was buried nearly two rows in, weaved all around several splits near the middle of two rows.

    Also killed a groundhog that decided he'd tear 4 or 5 big holes (over the course of ONE NIGHT) along the frontside of my stacks, under the skids the wood is stacked on. 20 gauge shotgun at around 10 yards after a 'stealth' sneak-in got him right in the kisser!!
     
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    bats are very good to have around, so long as they ain't living in your house or other structures.....i'd consider putting a bat box up in a nearby tree, Dave. They REALLY put a hurting on the mosquitoes in the evenings around here. Sadly, the little brown bats are becoming less and less common due to that white fungus disease that's going around here.
     
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    So much to like about that post...I sent this Jebusite dog into the abyss w/the 12ga.

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    Nice gun......Berretta?
    And if you look at the impacts on the ground, "X" marks the spot!!
     
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    Lol! Jackie Gleason "Pow...Right in the kisser"
     
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    Browning Citori O/U...the "X" was part shotgun, the rest was the mole damage--which was why he met his demise. :smoke:
     
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    We lost a lot if bats back about three or four years ago to the white nose fungus. The skeeters would kill us at night. This year and last the bats made a good comeback and decimated the skeeter herd. Even with this wet summer it was not bad being out at sunset.
     
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    snake!
     
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    My glasses I lost the previous year :D
     
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    A pair of leather gloves. Must have set 'em down while stacking to take a break a couple years ago.
     
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