• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.

Raccoons feeding in the pindo palm tree

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I guess the smell of the ripened fruit in the pindo palm near the carport was too much for the raccoon family and they risked dealing with the thorny frond stalks to get at them. The fragrance of the fruit is right potent, and surely they could smell the fruit from quite a distance. It can about knock you out when you walk past the palm tree. It is supposed to be pretty tasty, but I haven't tried it myself. They don't last very long once the varmints discover that they are ripe.

The squirrels are also feeding on the fruit during the day, but they are not quite as welcome as the raccoons are around here.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFLFtvBlWg

Video was taken using the new Browning BTC-7A game trail camera I bought recently. Takes 1080p video at 60fps and seems to do a pretty good job.
 
Just noticed this. I used to work with a guy who's wife made jelly with this fruit. He would bring some kind of chewy spicey bread she made also to smear jelly over. I could eat it all day long.
 
I usually will collect the fruits as well as the seed left behind when an animal eats the fruit, and throw them out all in the woods hoping they will propagate more palm trees. We see a lot of small palms sprouting, but the cabbage palms (we throw those seeds out too) look so similar to the pindo palm when small that I don't know which exactly are coming up. I would guess probably both, though, as they seem to propagate readily from seed.

We tend to do that type of seed dispersal a lot with anything that produces seeds that we want to have more of around here. Heck, we have citrus trees popping up here and there that are the result of just walking around eating tangerines and spitting the seeds out as we walk. We have 5 or 6 citrus trees coming up at the back corner of the garage that I have no idea how they got there.
 
WebSlave said:
Heck, we have citrus trees popping up here and there that are the result of just walking around eating tangerines and spitting the seeds out as we walk. We have 5 or 6 citrus trees coming up at the back corner of the garage that I have no idea how they got there.
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We have "Gin and Tonic" trees that grew up from our discarded slices of kumquat from said drinks.... unfortunately they have yet to produce gin... :D
 
Helenthereef said:
We have "Gin and Tonic" trees that grew up from our discarded slices of kumquat from said drinks.... unfortunately they have yet to produce gin... :D
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Too bad that doesn't work. Getting all the varmints drunk around here would probably make them easier for the local predators to snag. And certainly influence the squirrels into making unwise decisions when I am trying to put them in the crosshairs of my rifle. :hehe:
 
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