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[CapricornFarm]

I am looking for a new one!

 

[Alaskan]

Maybe you need to spray the walls with bitter apple.

I used Dave's Insanity hot sauce...after our puppy kept chewing on the bedpost.

It worked like a charm!

But yes, it probably would stain drywall. I didn't notice a color difference on the wood...and there wasn't much smell...and that faded fast.

 

[JD4570]

 

[Alaskan]

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JD!!

You have been missed!

Super hot where you are at I would guess.

Still spring here.. high 40s.

 

[JD4570]

Mid 90s here.

 

[JD4570]

.....and it's not summer yet!

 

[microchick]

I used Dave's Insanity hot sauce...after our puppy kept chewing on the bedpost.

It worked like a charm!

But yes, it probably would stain drywall. I didn't notice a color difference on the wood...and there wasn't much smell...and that faded fast.

I fixed the drywall, or at least got stage one of the repair finished, then sprayed the wall with bitter apple, which they hate, btw. The big problem was that we have a secondary circuit breaker box in the utility room with conduit going down to the basement/root cellar and we were worried that they were going to chew on that. We also set a big heavy bucket of drywall compound along with a concrete block in front of that area of wall. If they get a 'chew' on, they aren't going to hurt anything except their teeth.

Morning all! Our guardian angels were watching over us last night. The tornados that hit Missouri down in Jeff City were about 100 miles away from us to the southwest. We had some thunder, lightning and wind but dodged the bullet this time.

Man tornadoes love that part of the state!

Still it's saturated here. Everywhere you step the ground 'squishes' underfoot. I've been laying cardboard out in the chicken run and every morning it's a worm fest for the ones that will brave the elements and venture outside.

No big plans for today. We lost an antenna in one of the storms that rolled through so we need to repair it. That is probably going to be the big event for the day, that and a trip into town to buy feed and dog food. Pups ate 50 pounds of food in 3 weeks. I said why not just bypass the middleman and dump it in the yard upon opening the bag? I can't believe how fast they are growing.

 

[ronott1]

I fixed the drywall, or at least got stage one of the repair finished, then sprayed the wall with bitter apple, which they hate, btw. The big problem was that we have a secondary circuit breaker box in the utility room with conduit going down to the basement/root cellar and we were worried that they were going to chew on that. We also set a big heavy bucket of drywall compound along with a concrete block in front of that area of wall. If they get a 'chew' on, they aren't going to hurt anything except their teeth.

Morning all! Our guardian angels were watching over us last night. The tornados that hit Missouri down in Jeff City were about 100 miles away from us to the southwest. We had some thunder, lightning and wind but dodged the bullet this time.

Man tornadoes love that part of the state!

Still it's saturated here. Everywhere you step the ground 'squishes' underfoot. I've been laying cardboard out in the chicken run and every morning it's a worm fest for the ones that will brave the elements and venture outside.

No big plans for today. We lost an antenna in one of the storms that rolled through so we need to repair it. That is probably going to be the big event for the day, that and a trip into town to buy feed and dog food. Pups ate 50 pounds of food in 3 weeks. I said why not just bypass the middleman and dump it in the yard upon opening the bag? I can't believe how fast they are growing.

Sheet rock work is in stages. I am up to stage 3, sanding the plaster. Texture and painting are next. This is to fill in the place where a big whole house fan was replaced with one that uses a smaller register

 

[getaclue]

It's suppose to get up to 98, and 99 on Monday, and Tuesday here. That's too hot, even for Florida. Our weather has changed quite a bit since the early 60's. 1. It didn't used to get this hot, as early in the summer. It should be in the mid 80's until Sept. In Sept. it should go up to the low 90's. 2. Even though the predicted temps were high, we had heat lightning that would dissipate the heat. 3. We got almost daily showers in the late afternoon, when it was the hottest, for about an hour, that cooled everything off nicely.

Now, the temps start soaring at the start of summer. There is rarely heat lightning. We get rain, but not the daily, hour long cooling showers.

Winters have changed a LOT too.

 

[ronott1]

We will have highs in the high 70s and low 80 for a couple of days and go back to 60s for highs on the weekend.

The forecast is for highs in the 90s the first week in June