Why do people put milk jugs all over their yards?

[catland]

Originally posted by Tonya
Now, I can't tease you about that. I REALLY like that idea. That's cool! I just might steal it next year.

No problem, We stole the idea from someone else.

[Twisterdog]

I asked my employee about the milk jugs. She said she had no clue, and had never seen that when she lived there. So, it must a new thing. LOL

[Tonya]

I guess it's a new trend. lol.

[tuxluvr]

The only thing I can think of is that the noise from the wind blowing through the milk jugs would create annoying vibrations down the poles to the moles underground and send them to browner pastures... (moles have poor eyesight but sensitive hearing-----and although they have very human looking hands, they don't have long arms and cannot "hold their ears") ---

Truth is, moles are there because their favorite snack, grub worms, are there....and in the words of the gardner's bard
" Where e'er a grub worm spawns, a mole will wreck the lawns"

Many have pondered the mole dilemma, and most do not want to resort to using unfriendly substances to remove the grubs (pesticides that can hurt other sweet animals)....so there has been a "country lore movement" for years debating the best method for divesting one's lawn of nature's little half-blind living rototillers.

Since there is no pied-piper of grubworms, and since I will not succumb to "pesky-sides"...alas, my lawn will be adorned with little mud piles - there was even one that surfaced in my heavily graveled driveway! Methinks I should be concerned about mole steroid usage - that one had to take some effort on the part of the mole!

Sometimes when I look at my back yard from an upstairs window, I think this looks like the tunnel network in Afghanistan and perhaps one of my moles is actually named "Mole-Sama"...but I digress.

Whatever this peculiar practice is doing to the moles (other than perhaps they poke their heads out and laugh themselves to death).....I shudder to think what a crop of milk jugs does to the overall neighborhood property values!

Got MIlk?

[tuxluvr]

....on the other hand, maybe it isn't moles at alll but.....ALIENS...yeah.....you put plastic milk jugs upside down on sticks all over your yard and aliens will fly over and say

"Those people are too wierd, let's go next door"

[Nomilynn]

To treat moles in our yard, I always uncovered the hole, stuffed in some dog poop, and then covered the hole again. I figure if that doesn't smoke them out, nothing will!! Plus, the scent of a predator made them take off.

[Tonya]

Originally posted by tuxluvr
....on the other hand, maybe it isn't moles at alll but.....ALIENS...yeah.....you put plastic milk jugs upside down on sticks all over your yard and aliens will fly over and say

"Those people are too wierd, let's go next door"

hahahahaha

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by Nomilynn
To treat moles in our yard, I always uncovered the hole, stuffed in some dog poop, and then covered the hole again. I figure if that doesn't smoke them out, nothing will!! Plus, the scent of a predator made them take off.

hmmmm...perhaps I can coax the neighbor's dog to make a few deposits in the "bank of molehole"

[Cinder & Smoke]

Originally posted by Miss Meow
... my Mum is a little on the weird side and
had an arbor built to hold her painted toilet ...
I swear I'm adopted

It's just inside the driveway
so visitors don't miss it...

Mum would get along great with my Buddy, Pat, the Plumber!

Years ago, he was rebuilding a high school bathroom.
They replaced a group of Floor Mounted Urinals...
Three or four of which were sanitized (so he said) and came home...

They wound up standing side by side next to his mini-barn -
FULLY Visible from the street...
with flowers planted in the drain holes!

Quite the eye-catching display - especially in the winter -
when there were NO flowers!

/s/ Phred