Yeah I’ve planted a good many trees. Now I’m reaping what I did sow. Having to cut them down or pay someone and cut up and haul away those that the wind took down. I’m not fond of insects or rodents though, especially ticks. I’m told the good weather we had this winter means a bumper crop of pests this summer. You guys go ahead and eat them though. I haven’t eaten a bug since about 6 and didn’t taste very good.
10 acres of woods, 12 acres of wetlands, 2 acres of lawn (unfertilized, no insecticides or any other artificial stuff). The local turkey flocks eat ticks and so do the opposums. The hawks control rodents. The coyotes keep small animals and the deer population in check. Bobcats and foxes do the same. They all come and go as the animals they hunt go up/down in population. The woods needs care to remain healthy and safe and a yearly beating back from encroaching on the lawn area…
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Wow, looks like the same moss I get on my roof where it’s shaded and stays moist. Sheesh, now I’m grateful that’s all I have. Seems to be doing well in that seam 
Who’s eating bugs??
But didn’t they when you were kids? I remember it being a water-saving tip, not to leave the water running when washing a car.
How much?
Good advice, @Groucho
Sorry about your health issues…Agree it is important to remember not everyone can do everything. We’ll all be there at some point.
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And, I don’t know about your area, but in my neck of the woods, there has been a very obvious increase in the Red Tail Hawk population over the past 4 or 5 years. It used to be somewhat of an event to spot one perched on a pole, but nowadays its not unusual to see 3 or 4 in the space of a 20 minute drive. And, that is definitely a good thing.
I just wish that I was able to see more of these hawks from time to time:
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Yeah they do a good job during those winter months and I do my own once it gets warm including waxing twice a year .
The only bird we have an abundance of is buzzards. Saw 20 in 1 tree across the street from. In their defense we do get a lot of road kill on the “major” roads here. But I’m still thinking of dragging out the .22 pellet rifle.
Yeah, we have those creatures too, and I know that they are essential, but they’re just plain creepy.
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$4.8997/100 cubic foot? That’s .65¢/gallon.
Hinckley, Ohio has a return of the buzzards festival (lampooning San Juan Capistrano’s swallow festival).
Parsees and Tibetans dispose of their dead with ‘air burial’: placing the corpses on top of stone pillars for the vultures to eat. Because so many vultures are dying from poisoning and hunting they have aviaries to breed them for the purpose.
You are charged by the cubic foot? For water. Well that’s California for you. Take something as simple as measuring water by the gallon, which everyone is familiar with, and turn it into a cluster f.
Come to think about it, when we first moved out here into the rural areas. I did see a few. Had to remind the other half not to leave here 5lb. Chihuahua unattended. The cat on the hand, it’s going to take more than a hawk to take his 28lb. a$$ 
Perhaps it is an antiquated method of metering water. My grandfather worked for a meter manufacturing company in the 1970’s, I recall seeing water meters measuring in cubic feet.
Well, I guess you’re a few years older than I am. I only know of gas (natural)not gasoline measured in cubic feet.
Odd, I agree, but that’s not just CA. I live in MN (city water is pulled from Lake Superior) and our city utility company uses CCF as well. Our most recent water bill:
I’ve lived in CA, OR, and WA. Every utility bill I’ve ever had charged water by the cubic foot.
