Wednesday, April 10, 2013

You know its spring in Florida when . . .

You know its spring in Florida when you are at the Super Wal-Mart at 6:00 a.m. buying rat traps.

Now I'm not in charge of rat wrangling, rather Mr. Sam is takes care of this landlording task (thank goodness).  So, he was at Super Wal-Mart early this morning buying traps.

Here in Florida we have problems with roof rats due in large part to our climate and the abundance of fruit trees.  And, at one of our rental properties, we have a beautiful, big mango tree that produces tons of fruit.  This tree produces so much fruit that its more than our tenants or ourselves could ever eat.

I've heard about some food pantries that run back yard fruit drives so I'm looking for an agency that is local to us where we can donate these mangos.  In the meant time Mr. Sam is over at the property setting up traps.

3 comments:

Mrs PoP @ Planting Our Pennies said...

Ewww. Really? Rats? So glad we've never had anything like that. We've never even had the palmetto bugs that people complain about. I <3 truly nolen =)

Sam said...

Gross is the word. Mrs PoP, do you have fruit trees? I'm convinced that causes the problem at our one rental.

Anonymous said...

If you can't donate the mangoes to a food bank because they are too perishable, might I suggest you put them on Freecycle? That way they would still go to people who would use them.