The Old Folks Home

[Cynthia12]

Stumpy, that one's cute too.


Hey...right here, and yes, I said right here in Utah...it is a beautiful day! Going to get up into the 60's today, no wind, no chill. Yaay!

 

[sourland]

FINALLY, a nice day here in NJ. 70's and sunny today then down into the 60's for the next several days. I'll take it.

 

[wolftracks]

Can I see a picture of that? I need one if it's half as awesome as I'm thinking it is.

That thing was around in the 70s. If I ever had a pic I'm sure if somewhere with all my kids' baby pics and other things thst have been lost over the years. . But it was awesome. I got a pendant with one when they all went home and celebrated his grandmothers 104th birthday, but I have to confess I wore it once, since I also got a gold cross from that trip that I wear with all the other necklaces and chokers I wore back then. My ex had one as a keychain. I still claim the family and I have nieces that had been putting thier tattoos on FB. All of them have a scorpion.

Hey!!!! Maybe I can see if any of them can find scorpion items. I used to have a leather motorcycle jacket that matched the one my ex had. I mean they put them on everything. His dad had some resin encased ones, but I don't remember what everything was. Book holders maybe? But they had a lot of things at their house with them.

 

[wolftracks]

First it didn't ost and then a double post.

 

[wolftracks]

Ok I asked 2 of my nieces to go on a mission for me. It was their dad that had it, so maybe they can find out if those suckers are still around.

 

[gryeyes]

Yesterday, we built the "flume" for the water return into the pond. Right now, without a pump and the rest of the Skippy Filter built, a garden hose stuck into the outlet provides a look at what it might look like in operation, once complete. The horse trough/Skippy Filter is on a platform and surrounded by redwood fence boards.

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Nice and rustic, "Gold Country" kinda look, doncha think? I absolutely love it!

 

[insanity]

Very nice.Wish I could borrow your handy man for a while.

 

[wolftracks]

Yesterday, we built the "flume" for the water return into the pond. Right now, without a pump and the rest of the Skippy Filter built, a garden hose stuck into the outlet provides a look at what it might look like in operation, once complete. The horse trough/Skippy Filter is on a platform and surrounded by redwood fence boards.

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Nice and rustic, "Gold Country" kinda look, doncha think? I absolutely love it!

I absolutely love it too. This is wonderful Linda!

 

[sourland]

Great job - great look!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have had some major rat issues around here since last fall. I cornered and bludgeoned a rat to death in mid fall last year because it wouldn't get caught in the regular rat spring traps. Obviously I can't (and won't) put poison down. So I took matters into my own hands. Two days after I took care of that problem a new rat moved in. This one has been even more difficult to catch. I have put multiple spring traps out with all kinds of bait. I've put out chipmunk traps and small animal Have-A-Heart traps.

I've even caught the thing on my game cam to try and track it and figure out its movements.



... and no luck. I finally decided to try glue traps. Yes, they're cruel. But besides staying out all night with a shotgun (trust me, I've contemplated it) it's probably the last thing I can do. So I went to Amazon, typed in rat glue trap and chose the one that said for large rats. I figured Ratty there looked pretty big.

They arrived today.

I could catch a toddler on one of these suckers.



I used to live in Baltimore, and I know the rats were big... but I don't recall them being a foot long. Maybe I've just conveniently forgotten.

I did catch something almost instantaneously upon putting the trap down...



Big traps for big cats?