SilverKelpie

SilverKelpie t1_j5r5fid wrote

Reply to comment by Dr_JackMeoff in Have had a visitor the last couple of nights. Seems that he really enjoys the local bunny population. by Dr_JackMeoff

I just set water out for them in the AM every day, but there are heated waterers.

I want to add, when you use the hardware cloth (Not chicken wire) to enclose your run, lay some of it under/around the edges flat on the ground. Bury it if you are motivated (or just let grass grow over time and sink it into the ground). Foils the digging predators.

Also be careful if you use heat lamps. Their benefits are debatable (I don’t use them), but the yearly incidents of people‘s coops burning down are not.

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SilverKelpie t1_j25s083 wrote

Reply to From a relatively new Vermonter who went back to the south for the holidays... by MissJudgeGaming

I felt the same about driving to Texas from Vermont to visit family last summer. I started to feel like I could breathe again when I reached upstate New York and the relief was palpable when crossing back into Vermont.

Most people love manufactured hell though, and more power to them. They can do their thing over there, and I’ll have space to do mine over here.

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SilverKelpie t1_ixwcmvl wrote

Reply to comment by Crisp_Strudel in How much land is posted in Vermont? by Crisp_Strudel

Can't speak for all of Vermont since different regions have different flavors, but nobody in real life here has given any hint that they dislike us for being from out of state, and everybody around us knows. (We seem to have been a subject of town gossip before we even got here.) Everybody has been extremely nice, much more so than I'm used to, and folks have shown up at random and lent a hand a number of times.

ETA: How not to be disliked as best as I can tell: "When in Rome" it. You're moving to Vermont. Figure out the basic culture, how to be a Vermonter, and be that. People the world over basically don't want outsiders changing their way of life. Also, just be a nice person who lends a hand when you can. Nobody likes jerks.

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SilverKelpie t1_iw9jyv0 wrote

Reply to Friend for my wife by abitdaft1776

Wish y‘all were closer; I’m a transplant and work-from-home wife too and I’d be totally down to hang out with someone like her, so we’re out there. I hope you find someone!

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