Since Grace figured out she could get past the squirrel baffle, I had to come up with another idea. I could have bought a “torpedo” style squirrel/raccoon baffle, but nooooo…I have to do everything the hard way. I bought a 24″ section of stove pipe and a cap at Buchheit, and made one myself. I actually started it the day before yesterday, but the hole saw I had was dull, and the one that I wanted to use doesn’t fit a 3/8″ drill, so I had to borrow B’s 1/2″ (I need to get one of my own). Anyway, the pictures are crappy because I was trying to hurry, but I checked that feeder this morning, and Grace didn’t get into it. Also, stove pipe most emphatically does not snap together easily!

I put the squirrel baffle on top of it, for whatever that may be worth.

After I finished that, I laid corrugated in the second side of Thug Lyfe, and then put down mulch.

I was just finishing up watering pot plants when it started to rain. I still needed to water; it was a good rain for seedlings, but didn’t last long enough to really soak pots. After that, I did absolutely nothing. 🙂