a. I’m vexed that it came without a shaker top. And it’s—um—wet. Looks like wet sand.
\nb. So I’m after spreading it wherever our nightly deaf raccoon uses as his pond-approach. [Deaf: he seems the only raccoon able to ignore the sonic deterrent. And he likes to go swimming, while there’s a perfectly good river a mile away.
\nc. so I climb up on the berm—and trip on one of the new irrigation lines. I managed to catch myself short of falling in with a full canister of coyote urine. And not to knock a big heavy rock into the pond. And not to rip out the irrigation.
\nd. Thanks to the open top, I find I have deposited half the fairly spending container under the red Japanese maple. Well, it is an area that needs coverage.
\ne. I get myself back on my feet and go around the pond bestowing coyote-ness wherever there’s a good raccoon approach to the water.
\nf. Full circuit. I’m out of coyote love-potion and figure I’d better lid that can, though it’s empty, before throwing it in the kitchen garbage.
\ng. I locate the missing shaker top, stuck inside the discarded lid.<\/p>\n
Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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