25 years in the federal government in guns and badges, 22 of those in Corrections, then 10 years in hacker hunting and breach detection, now an information security sales engineer. Homestead farmer, amateur welder, equipment operator, electronic designer, 40 years soldering, husband and father.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • We had a deep drought a few years ago. 15 foot deep ponds ran completely dry. The brown forest rats moved into the farms looking for food and water. They were EVERYWHERE. They got into the walls of our buildings, chewed through into the animal houses, and got into the feed. That same year we had an explosion in red squirrels and chipmunks. Then…they were gone. Not one to be seen.

    I was walking toward the brooding house one day and a huge rat (for a brown forest rat) came charging out toward me, ran into my boots, turned and continued. Right behind it came a mink in hot pursuit. The mink had moved in and cleared out the red squirrels, the chipmunks, and the brown forest rats. I told it that it could stay as long as it left the birds alone.

    That worked out well for us.

    Another year our daughter went out to open up and found a row of 9 ducklings with their heads pulled out under the door. A mink had gotten in and killed one and not being able to pull it out under the door went back for another. It worked its way through all of our ducklings before giving up.

    I caught that one. It’s pelt is in my workshop.

    I have a live and let live policy as long as they don’t touch our animals.