dalecochoy wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"
Subject: [IBC] oiling mica pots
Sounds like a good idea, but most of my mica pots have
squirrel
tooth on their rims by the end of their first year of use.
It
would take more than a "light" sanding to get rid of them.

Jim Lewis

Ditto here Jim, that is one of the problems with using mica
"training pots"
as a less expensive alternate to good ceramic, but it's a
lost savings when
the squirrels ruin the pots!! You'd think with 3 dogs and 3
cats I'd NEVER
see a squirrel !!!!
I keep a rag and bottle of baby oil or plain ( unscented)
mineral oil at my
work station. Use it on every pot when done working. Years
ago when I was
out of mineral oil I used cooking oil for a while but found
the rags got
rancid smelling quickly. Never did the sanding. That's just
TOO MUCH work
for a training pot! :)
Dale

I guess you guys just don't live right. ;0] If you had oak
trees near you the
squirrels would have no interest in your mica pots.


My trees sit under 2 smallish live oaks and the forest around the
house if filled with laurel, willow and water oaks. And
squirrels.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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