Outfox the critters, yes sirree, and sometimes it takes some doing. Remember when Dad nailed a saucer sled on top of a pole to make a birdfeeder that the squirrels couldn’t get over? We watched them shinny up the wood, then try to take on that aluminum curve and fail to find enough purchase + momentum to make it to the edge and over the rim. One day we watched one squirrel make one desperate try and actually scrabble over–never repeated, but it was crazy.

Clear heavy tape sounds like a good idea, looks the same as yesterday, won’t act the same. Do you think it will take another day to figure out that his claws will slice that center? Hope the critter’s not that adept or perceptive. Good luck!

Oh, and P.S.–we had to leave our apple trees behind in selling the house, and spring at this place had two seeming identical flowering trees, one on this property, one behind over the fence…but I looked out the back door last week and realized that the one behind was growing apples. Branches hanging over our side of the fence, same owner, presently vacant for repairs–we will still have apples! How cool is that? And pears in the other corner.

You might also try a staple in the center part of the plastic.

Thanks for sharing the link! Musical talent abounds in your family.

oh yummy — this makes me think of when we used to do a Teddy Bear convention every spring in Nevada City, CA — there were wild berries all along the back of the parking area around the facility the show was done in — sweet memories

Seems that I’m not the only one having trouble opening the clamshells.

Coming to this post from reading a Ravelry comment on spinning by feel, in the dark…I bet racoons would be excellent spinners!