Got Pests? Grok Doesn’t!
Last and this week I’ve been having problems with pests in the cave. This isn’t the first time. Pests seem to love the cave as much as Grok. I generally don’t have a problem with the pests until they start disturbing me.
In the spring it was Starlings. With a lot of hard work, I was able to dispatch most of them. I had about 30 adults plus their babies living in the walls next to my bed making noise at all hours. Starlings are very smart and hard to get rid of.
In the summer the new visitors were ladybugs and these other black bugs I just named stinkbugs. Now you may be thinking ladybugs are cute… but I’m here to tell you they are not! They also stink like crap! The stink bugs actually dont stink. For purposes of staying on topic I end the story here.
Next were the bats (still summer). I did nothing about the dozens of bats now living in the walls because I figured they were eating the bugs. I also saw on TV that bats are dying off all over the world. I ended up leaving them be and just ear-plugging many nights. The screeching/screaming was so annoying. I did kill two that were flying in the heat of the day. I suspect they were rabid. I smacked one with a cane and the other with the car.
Woodpeckers tried to move in around the same time as the bats, but I managed to scare them away 
Now we’re into fall. The squirrels decided this was a nice place to live too. I was delighted to see that the chewers and climbers in my walls were not rats. I would have gone ballistic! The problem is they were fighting and jumping onto the roof from the treetops. It sounds like a baseball hitting the roof at 4am! I decided it was time to eat them.
It’s been a few days since I decided they would be dinner.
Be careful to use the right kind of ammo so you don’t shoot holes in your house. I shot one in the neck with subsonic ammo the other day, but he fell off the roof and scurried into a dark tree before I could reload.
This one was also a neck shot, but he wasn’t so lucky…or maybe he was? He became dinner. I don’t know if the other lived or died. I hate suffering and wasting!
I field dressed him on the spot using a pair of titanium coated scissors and brought him in the house and threw him in a pot. Stew was about the only thing I could make with that small about of meat. This is fine, because I’m dieting on the 6 Week Cure.
Preparing To Eat
If I get another one, I will boil it briefly and toss the water before adding the water I’m going to use as the broth. The soup had a bit of that stinky squirrel smell that I can’t explain. It’s just something you have to experience. I guess it’s a bit like a mild skunk cabbage smell or musk. Raccoon has the same kind of smell.
Bare with me on the recipe. I’m almost 3 weeks into my #SurvivalMonths challenge, so I don’t have a lot of fresh produce on hand. If you don’t know about my challenge… in a nutshell I’m not buying any groceries for two months. I only eat what I have on hand, can gather, score for free or kill.
Squirrel Soup Recipe
- 1 Squirrel (organs left inside)
- Slow boil him for a few hours until the meat falls off the bone & just stir it all up.
- Dashed spices – Sage, cumin, pepper, sea salt
- 3 Green onions
- 1 small carrot
- Few ounces of chopped zucchini
- 2 eggs for thickener
Squirrel Soup Review
I ate the whole thing, including most of the bones which were soft enough from being boiled for hours. The flavor… What if I told you like chicken? LOL! Well it pretty much was except for the slight stench.
Ok, eating squirrel…. that’s interesting. I’m curious what the protein count and fat content was?
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@Ty – 120 calories, 3.2g fat, 21.2g protein
It’s all found on my 6 Week Cure food log
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You’re going to cause a pandemic!
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Dear @Dr Greger,
Maybe if you and your city dwelling friends would quit stuffing yourselves ( I can see your gut
), pushing plant based diets and breeding like rats, we wouldn’t have an unsustainable population, relying on unnatural sources of food (i.e. agri-farming / aka raping of the land) to survive.
Riddle me this Plantman…
Just how is my self-sustainable, native american like diet, eating non-domesticated/native species to my area going to cause a pandemic?
Here’s a homework assignment for you:
1) Find me a self-sustainable, YEAR ROUND plant based diet that will keep me as healthy & satiated as my current, and I’ll give it a shot. I’m telling you right now you’re going to have to quit your day job.
2) …or send me $2,000 a month to cover my plant based grocery bill, because that’s what it’ll take. Come on… you look like you can afford it.
Oh… and you’re welcome for the opportunity to spam my site with your Vegan dribble, fear-mongering and propaganda.
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I totally respect this idea.
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I going to have to give squirrel another shot. The last time I ate them, I was literally pulled pellets out of my mouth in almost each bite. My budy didn’t get all the shot out when he dressed it!
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@Sandy – Tell your buddy… .22lr to the squirrels melon
I pack the pistol in addition to my shotgun when bird hunting for these types of opportunities.
Just wish the squirrels around here were a little meatier!
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I’m learning more everyday reading your blog. Thanks for all the hard work. I’m looking forward to more reading here!
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