BS: liberals,conservatives and southerners!!

Subject: RE: BS: liberals,conservatives and southerners!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 02:01 PM

Metchosin, I've been away from Washington for too long. Where are the possums around the Northwest coast from originally? I've forgotten.

A friend of mine down at Lake Whatcom used to have them occasionally dig through her compost or burning piles out in the yard. One winter was so bad she took pity and fed them a little, but it was an odd situation where they were waiting for her but would hiss as she approached.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: liberals,conservatives and southerners!!
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 05:14 PM

SRS, apparently they are Didelphis marsupialis virginiana, so they could have come from West Virginia. They were introduced to Camano Island and at Sedro Woolley, Washington about 1925 and by 1949 had spread right up the Fraser Valley in BC to Spuzzum. I'm not sure of their current status in the interior now. Nobody thought they were on Vancouver Island until a few years ago, when some showed up around Sidney.

Subject: RE: BS: liberals,conservatives and southerners!!
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 05:52 PM

Correction, they didn't reach as far as Spuzzum until 1965. Coyotes probably slowed them down. We don't eat possum here either, we don't get that hungry.

Subject: RE: BS: liberals,conservatives and southerners!!
From: dianavan
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:19 PM

There are also possum on Hornby Island, B.C. They're a nuisance. The eagles like them though.

Re: Off island hunters. Its very scary during hunting season on the islands. You dress your kids in bright orange because these guys seem to shoot anything that moves (they've usually been drinking as well).
They do not respect private property and terrorize the locals with the sound of their guns breaking the silence. Its like an unseen enemy out there. They are also resented for taking game which is needed in the winter.

I sure hope the guys in camoflage don't arrive up here. They might be mistaken for an invading army.

d

Subject: RE: BS: liberals,conservatives and southerners!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:36 PM

"Two gamekeepers, seven hunters and a cow..."

Subject: RE: BS: liberals,conservatives and southerners!!
From: Sam L
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:49 PM

What's all this about tar heel going? He's fun. Martin's just a useless sidekick, an Ed McMahon. Har! You are correct, Sir! Could Tar heel stay and Martin only post after he's thought of something to say? Once he thinks of something, he's all right. Can you do that with computers?

   I grew up with guns, took apart automatic pistols and put them back together with a little help from the library when I was nine. But I get along without them. A bunch of young thugs yell at me across the street, I don't yell back, but cross over to them. That's usually enough. Have been in some situations like that. But one question. When somebody gets shot, but not fatally, why does everyone say they were lucky? I say, okay, but not quite as lucky as the other people who didn't get shot.

    I think I could do personal capitol punishment when warranted, I just don't trust the government with it, and neither did the founders of this country, which is why we have a jury of twelve idiots off the street. More conservative than these latter-day pussified conservatives, who seem to want government programs to do things for them.