➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Ursuline Chick]

I'm good. the deluge last night back up the ditches. When the ditches are full, EVERYTHING gets wet. We have decent drainage. The 12" in an hour thing is not common.

Some places flooded that did not flood during Harvey. It all depends on where the rain comes down. I'm afraid this will be another bad year for the insurance companies and the people who file claims. C'est la vie.

Glad to hear you are okay.

 

[biophiliac]

How does @Texas Kiki feel about spiders?

Spoiler: My greenhouse buddy

Jumping spider with lunch

What a great photo!

 

[Kiki]

How are all the Houston peeps doing with all that rain, we are seeing really bad flooding on the news?

We aren't drowning yet.

 

[Kiki]

Thanks!’ That makes a lot of sense and is very interesting but it is annoying when it takes forever to stop gushing and drips blood all over everything lol

What did you do?

 

[NanaKat]

Sorry about the truck!! That sucks!! Can’t you just get a new truck with that money?
And aw cute dogs!!

No. We paid $20,000 for this truck used a couple of years ago. A 2009, it only has 70,000 miles on the engine. To replace it with a new truck would be more than triple the cost to repair it.
Thanks...both are adopted.

ACV is good with anything
a new diesel ton truck is over 70K

Yes! Even with trading in this one on a new truck, payments would have been $900 for 60 months plus excise tax and tags and higher insurance.

X2. The picture is a really good picture and the green is kinda cool but I HATE spiders lol they creep me out so much. Although actually fuzzy ones seem to be the worst lol

Green jumping spiders are great in my plants in the kitchen window for any pesky fly.
The Fuzzy ones are safer than those without fuzz like Black Widow, Brown Recluse, etc. While the fuzzy ones do bite, the bite is not as poisonous.
Mom was a science teacher. We grew up with Tarantulas, Wolf spiders, snakes, centipedes and scorpions as house guests in the summer while school was out.

After Katrina, I caught wild snakes to put in my yard in hopes of lowering the rat population; While helping to clean my brother's house, he started screaming like a little girl, i had a large box in my hands and asked why he was having a fit. he just kept yelling " a rat, a rat" so I asked where and he said it was running across my feet. MY response was oh, and I kept walking (I was wearing boots ), Recently we had the bedroom windows open and I awoke to a rat looking back at me. I woke up DH, told him there was a rat in our room, and he turned over and went back to sleep. I went down stairs and slept. That I found creepy

Hey! How y'all are? Where have you been? We have missed you!
Are you still enjoying the snakes and their rat eating benefit?
Hubby keeps telling me that Python and Anaconda populations have exploded and are now being hunted.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

We aren't drowning yet.

Great news!!! You can always come here if you start to drown, I never did start a garden we can put your hens up in the fenced off 15' X 20' fenced garden area!!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

No. We paid $20,000 for this truck used a couple of years ago. A 2009, it only has 70,000 miles on the engine. To replace it with a new truck would be more than triple the cost to repair it.
Thanks...both are adopted.


Yes! Even with trading in this one on a new truck, payments would have been $900 for 60 months plus excise tax and tags and higher insurance.


Green jumping spiders are great in my plants in the kitchen window for any pesky fly.
The Fuzzy ones are safer than those without fuzz like Black Widow, Brown Recluse, etc. While the fuzzy ones do bite, the bite is not as poisonous.
Mom was a science teacher. We grew up with Tarantulas, Wolf spiders, snakes, centipedes and scorpions as house guests in the summer while school was out.


Hey! How y'all are? Where have you been? We have missed you!
Are you still enjoying the snakes and their rat eating benefit?
Hubby keeps telling me that Python and Anaconda populations have exploded and are now being hunted.

No the snakes disappeared rather quickly, possibly hawks

 

[Ursuline Chick]

We are doing well, except I miss my BYC time. I went back to work, DD starts college in 2 years And the old lady that I am gets worn out working

 

[NanaKat]

We are doing well, except I miss my BYC time. I went back to work, DD starts college in 2 years And the old lady that I am gets worn out working

You are so active! These two years will fly by! Life goes so quickly....enjoy every bit.
Our granddaughter just graduated today with her Asso in Science from a two year college...starts a new job this summer and going to school for her Mortuary degree for the next several years.
Getting older in body too....good thing the brain isn't fleeting.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

You are so active! These two years will fly by! Life goes so quickly....enjoy every bit.
Our granddaughter just graduated today with her Asso in Science from a two year college...starts a new job this summer and going to school for her Mortuary degree for the next several years.
Getting older in body too....good thing the brain isn't fleeting.

Congrats to the granddaughter. How smart to pick a much needed field
Yes this brain needs to keep working for a lot longer than my 62 years.