Posted on Tue, May. 06, 2008

-- Don't feed the coyotes

• To that lady with the coyotes. Coyotes, so sad to see, take your pets at night. That's when they do their hunting, is at night. Pretty soon there will be a lot of coyotes around and things will go downhill from there. They get meaner and meaner. Don't feed them. It's like feeding the bears. Don't feed the bears. They're wild.

Please don't dust us

• Please drive very slowly if you must drive on the unpaved Scenic Drive in Pass Christian. The limestone rock surface is very dusty when cars speed. With our prevailing southerly winds, this is causing a lot of dust on and in our homes and cars. Thanks for driving slow or by staying off this street.

Business coming your way

• I'm a resident of Pascagoula, and I want to congratulate Gulfport on its smoke-free restaurants and public buildings. I applaud you for this momentous effort, and I guarantee you that I, along with a lot of other people, will head to Gulfport to take care of the smoke-free restaurants.

Take a torch to it

• I wish someone would take some cutting torches and go down to the SS Camille and get rid of it. Don't put that around town to be another eyesore somewhere later on. It's ridiculous to spend money on that monstrosity.

Wrong agency

• In response to "Get the IRS involved." The IRS handles taxes, not calibrating gas pumps. I believe the Mississippi Department of Agriculture is supposed to handle the calibration of gas pumps. You need to call them. Or, whatever appropriate department there is for that. But it's not the IRS. They only care if you got money, and you don't give it to the government.

Life's work

• I'm a 69-year-old widow. I had 3.3 acres. I gave my son 1 acre. I gave him the rest and left myself a life estate. It's never been the same since. God knows I've worked all my life for what I had. A lonely mom.

The wild kingdom

• We live about 2 miles west of the cemetery, and we have three coyotes. They have killed animals. We've lost a cat and a raccoon. We don't leave our animals out at night anymore because they may be killed.

Where the eagle soars

• Here's another reason why we should find another way to excavate the Richton salt dome. I'm not sure we have to do it, but if we do, let's find another way. "The Pascagoula River is home to the majestic bald eagle, our national symbol." That's a quote from the Hancock Bank calendar. If we're going to do this, let's do it right. OK?

Treat her like a lady

• This goes out to any man who has shown anger to any woman, girlfriend or wife he has ever loved. If you have anger, get help for it or you could lose the best thing in your life.

Sweet success

• Growing sugar cane rather than corn to produce ethanol is better. You get twice as much alcohol per acre with cane. An even better crop is sweet sorghum. It gets almost four times as much alcohol per acre as sugar cane does. You can get two or thee harvests a year out of it and it doesn't use as much water as cane does.

Constant cat alarm

• About "Noisy cats equal safe birds." Cats wise up to a bell on their collars. They just get near a place where they know there's birds, and they just crouch there. Bells do no good. What's needed is an automated bell on a collar that tinkles every 10 seconds or something. There's nothing like that on the market, but that's the only thing that will work.

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