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The squirrels are absolutely demolishing my tomato plants this year. They take one bite out of every tomato and move on to the next one. I've lost probably 30 tomatoes already and it's only June.

The challenge is I have free range chickens that roam through the garden area during the day so whatever I use has to be safe for them. No poison, no traps that could grab a chicken foot, nothing that would contaminate the soil the chickens scratch in.

So far I've tried:

Cayenne pepper sprinkled on the soil around the plants. Didn't do anything. Squirrels don't seem to care.

Motion activated sprinkler. Works great when it works but the chickens set it off constantly which wastes water and annoys me.

Netting over the tomato cages. Helps somewhat but squirrels are determined and they find gaps.

I have some bugmd pest defense spray that I use around the coop for bugs and I'm considering spraying it around the garden perimeter to see if the scent deters squirrels but honestly I doubt it. It's made for insects not mammals.

Has anyone found a natural repellent that actually keeps squirrels out of a garden without affecting poultry?

Put hit my strike around 2pm. My rule says roll at 21 DTE or if I'm tested with more than 7 days left. I didn't roll. Wanted to ""see what Monday does."" Monday gapped down. Now I'm holding something at a worse cost basis than if I'd just followed the written rule.

Running the wheel on 6 tickers, close to a year now. The strategy itself works. What keeps eating my returns is this. Every time I get tested I sit there for two hours trying to decide between rolling down, rolling out, rolling and doubling, or just taking assignment. I know what the right move is on paper. I've written it down. I have rules.

When it's live I don't follow them.

The dumb part is it's not a knowledge problem. Rolling for a credit when tested is almost always correct. Assignment is fine if you wanted the stock. This is execution. It's emotional trading with extra steps and a better vocabulary. I'm a discretionary trader pretending to run a rules-based system.

So how do people who have run this for a while actually get past it? I'm not asking for a new rule to add to my list. I already have enough rules. I'm asking whether the answer is strip out the discretion entirely, or learn to live with being the weak link in your own strategy.

I saw someone posted something similar so wanted to chime in. My son plays competitive soccer which means jerseys, shorts, and socks come home covered in grass stains, turf burn marks, and occasionally mud every single week.....

I've been dealing with this for a full season and feel like I've tried everything.....Oxiclean soak works on light stains but the deep ground-in grass on the knees of his shorts will not fully come out. Dawn dish soap before washing helped somewhat....hot water seems to set them worse. I've tried spray and wash, shout gel, biz and an enzyme-based thing from Whole Foods. The white numbers on his jersey look gray no matter what i do. 

Is there something that consistently removes grass and turf stains from white athletic fabric or is this just the reality of kids soccer?

ik everyone complains about miscommunication and the ""secret baby"" trope being trashy and unrealistic but tbh??? i eat that garbage up every single time.

there is just something so satisfying about the fmc getting completely fed up, packing her bags, and disappearing. and then the mmc finds out years later that he has a whole ass kid (or kids) and he just completely loses his mind trying to get her back. the groveling phase in these books is exactly what fuels me through my 9 to 5 job.

does anyone have any extremely dramatic secret baby recs? the more chaotic the better. i want the mmc to suffer before she forgives him tbh.

i have always hated dragging the big corded shop vac out of the garage just to clean the truck mats. its a whole process, wrestling with the hose and finding an outlet.

most of the cordless vacs ive tried just dont have the power. they feel like toys. fine for surface dust but they choke on heavy sawdust or the grit ground into the carpet.

shopping for presents for a carpenter or a garage guy is a nightmare because they immediately spot cheap gimmicks. but my wife got tired of me complaining and got me one of the bigger hoto blowvac models. i was skeptical, figured itd be another return pile candidate.

honestly its the first cordless ive used that actually has some serious pull. handles the fine workshop sawdust and pulls the embedded sand out of the fibers instead of scattering it. real test passed.