Cob: rats?

[Lyric]

I would put screening over the ends of the pipes. Any sort of fine metal
mesh should do the trick. ;)

Lyric

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and
jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing
thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Hooper" <mjhooper at trccomputing.com>
To: "David Knowlton" <pilot1ab80 at hotmail.com>; <tms at northcoast.com>;
<coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Cob: rats?


>
> Ok, say I eventually do get my vision of a cob house built and install
black
> flexible piping (which my honey swears by)to run water from the downspouts
> carrying it from my metal roof  to the garden pond for cleaning by water
> plants as I saw in a slide at a recent Organic Growers Conference in Flat
> Rock, NC (yes, a plug for them. it was an inspiring event) So, say I do,
> then how do I keep the mice from nesting in the pipe between rains? We've
> had four years of drought here in the NC mountains and one wet spring does
> not a drought-breaker guarantee......
> Mary
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