So now everyone is mad at me

So anyway the neighbor across the street comes outside when she hears the shot and sees me tying this dead bird on a sting from the tree to try and keep away other crows.

I can hear her yelling something to me but ignore her and go inside only to hear my 16 year old daughter tell me..... .....
"You are not really going to leave that thing hanging from the tree. What will my friends think when they come over here"

What’s a guy to do????? ????

Who cares how you pronounce it. Just spell it so everyone knows what you mean (well, pelling "pecan" is obvious but there are other words with multiple pronunciations depending on region).

As for the Pecans, Yum Yum. As for the crow? Shoot the critter. Animal pests in your crops are a bad thing whether it's deer in the corn, racoons in the sweet corn, or crows in the pecans and if the local "animal rights activists" don't appreciate your efforts to save your crop, that's too bad. Let THEM move back to downtown Manhatten( and I do mean New York, not Kansas) if they don't like it. That goes for the ones who object to "organic fertilization" programms for your fields too!

I built a decoration that I saw on the internet.

It was two pumpkins on sticks about waist high.
Below the pumpkins was a pair of pants stuffed with hay and the rear facing the road.
Above the pumpkins was a shirt stuffed with hay.
From the road it looked like someone with a pumpkin but t mooning the people passing on the road.
The neighbor across the street loved that one. So much so she said she was going to call the cops if I did not take it down.

KEH

Aaron