[Healeys] Truth or Fiction in Car Storage

[Alan Seigrist]

Patrick -

For something like your possum problem in the US you can hire a pistol
packin' hirsute midget varmint hunter named Yosemite Sam.  He's a bit noisy
and tends to shoot up the place, but he's got a world class work ethic which
is hard to find these days.

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
'64 BJ8


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Quinn, Patrick <Patrick.Quinn at det.nsw.edu.au
> wrote:

> G'day Richard
>
> I agree. We live on what use to be a small farm and the cars are kept in
> what
> used to be a machinery/milking shed. Mice were a problem and it was always
> easy to see where they had been by their droppings.
>
> A few years back one of the kids yelled out to his mother not go into the
> barn. I went to investigate and curled up on a workbench was a large
> diamond
> python that had a pronounced bulge along its body. If you didn't know, a
> diamond python is a harmless snake, unless of course you are a mouse. Since
> then we have encouraged the python to stay by placing the occasional piece
> of
> snake food out for it to eat. We know it's still about by its droppings
> which
> are rather big.
>
> Just last Sunday I saw a sizeable Blue Tongue Lizard coming out of where we
> keep the Healey Duncan. Blue Tongues are wonderful for keeping pests down
> in
> and around the garden including slugs, snails, spiders and insects. They
> also
> like to pinch the dog food.
>
> Thankfully the venomous black and brown snakes stay outside where they
> belong
> with the spiders.
>
> However we do have both ring-tail and brush-tail possums that like to sleep
> in
> amongst the car parts. The brush-tail is the largest at about the size of a
> domestic cat and being protected I leave them alone. They can be a pest,
> especially when they get in the house and rip curtains to shreds.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia