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the year of the 'poop potatoes'

 
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Anyone else have a funny story about trying to store food? Ours is one we call the 'poop potato' incident.



We were following the advice in a book, but the author of the tome likely didn't have cats, or at least not one like ours. Read the full account here:

Last Year's Peculiar Potato Problem

The culprit:





 
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We moved our blog to Substack, so here's a new, working link for that story from above:

A peculiar potato problem
 
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Carefull you could end up with something like this:


Which evolves into this:
catpotatosprout by vwfatmobile, on Flickr
 
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Craig, that is some sculpture right there.
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://stoves2.com
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