%#$*@ Squirrels! and Pings.

Rick Walker (walker@hpl-cutt.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 31 Mar 93 10:11:26 PST

> Of course I haven't felt they were cute since
> the day one went running by my window at work with
> a dead & dessicated bird corpse in it's mouth...

Aw, he was just saving up some Turkey Jerky for the winter.

> Little does our correspondent Rick know it, but Kurt lives about 5 miles
> away from him.

No problem.
I've taken the co-existance approach: wall everything up in a greenhouse.

The squirrels are now pets. They come and do tricks for peanuts every
morning at my back door.

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On another subject:

I just got a catalog from J.L. Hudson: "The 1993 Ethnobotanical Catalog of
Seeds". In it there is a section of seeds collected by the aboriginal
Zapotec people of the Sierra Madre del Sur, in southern Oaxaca, Mexico.

One of the seeds is described as: "Agarra Mosca Violeta" (Pinguicula)
Forms small flat rosettes up to 6" across of round leaves covered with
sticky hairs and with turned-up edges. Has a single purple-red flower on an
8" stalk. Grows on moist rocky cliffs and steep embankments. The seed is
very tiny and difficult to secure.

Not much of a description, but any idea what this might be? P. moranensis
maybe? According to the catalog, this plant has been "grown by this tribe
since pre-history". At $1.25/pack, I think I'll order some.

--
Rick