Human vs. Animals Part II

There have been two more battles won with the wild.  Well sort of.  This evening while I was eating the corn on the cob I got from a neighboring farm I decided to put some salt on it.  Just like every other time I use salt I shook the shaker over my food when none other then an earwig came out.  Obviously, I screamed and when I told my husband what happened his response was "It must be a Jewish earwig because that was kosher salt".   I guess living in the country has made us somewhat complacent to the presents of other animals...

The other battle I have been having is with the crows.  We have been fighting over apples.  Specifically, the apples on my front yard apple tree.  I needed to take action because neither the dog nor I could stand by the tree all day scaring them away.  My first idea was to build a scarecrow but then I read that you could put up foil and old pie plates to scare them away.  It has something to do with the bright reflection with the sun.  I found one pie plate, one 6 muffin sheet and some fishing line.  And Voila my tree looks like a poor mans christmas tree but I can safely say that for the last week no crows have eaten an apple.