My buddy Gary wants some updates.  Powdery snow sucks!  Plow, shovel, and plow some more.

An enemy of the cottontail:  the weedeater.  Now that everyone has a weedeater, lawns and property are all perfectly manicured.  While this may be pleasing to the eye, it destroys rabbitat.  A rabbit needs very little cover to nest and sometimes it is surprising where they will decide to build a nest.  That little bit of weeds around a tree or shed might have been just enough to raise a litter of rabbits out of but with the weedeater it is gone.  Many people want their property clear from property line to property line leaving little space for nesting.  I like a nicely mowed lawn, but I leave areas for my favorite game animal.  My neighbor, Mr. Dinkleburg, hates me for it but Mrs. Cottontail loves it and repays me with little ones that I can enjoy starting the hounds out on.  Add some old junk (right Gary?) and you have improved your rabbitat.

Here's wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!   May your runs be long and your checks be few in the new year.  Snow is just about all gone here in PA, more forecast for later in the week.  I think that a great New Year's resolution would be to get out and kill a predator.  In my travels over the holidays, I saw more hawks than anything else.  Would hate to be a rabbit!!!