The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

cycling accidents can be bad for teeth!

Once I was riding a bike, applied the brakes and the front one fell off and caught in the front tire spoke! Instant head over crash!

No broken teeth but lot of road rash and bruises.

Coffee tables do a number on teeth. We didn't have a coffee table for yrs, DW banned it. None of our kids broke teeth but some pushed through lips.

 

[ronott1]

Coffee tables do a number on teeth. We didn't have a coffee table for yrs, DW banned it. None of our kids broke teeth but some pushed through lips.

There are so many ways to break off teeth!

 

[Beer can]

I find nothing to like about Roundup and refuse to use it for anything.

Only stuff I use in my garden is organic liquid copper for tomato late blight and organic Bacillus thuringiensis BT, for cabbage loopers. Haven't needed anything else. Though I did pick up a shopping cart full of sluggo, Iron Phosphate, from Kmart last fall just cause it was 90% off. Usually I just use wood ashes for slugs. I couldn't stop them last yr though they were horrible in my kale and collards patch.

 

[Peep_Show]

In the garden it's BT, NEEM, Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew (a bacteria found in rum that works like BT), blood meal, copious amounts of mushroom compost, and Rabbit Scram. I figure there's a percentage that's to be lost to pests, weather and wind, and thusly I overplant what I need. If there's extra, it's a bonus bounty to share.

Found a very small rabbit in my veggie compound this morning, about the size of a tennis ball with a pingpong ball-sized head. I spotted his tracks earlier. No idea how it got there and for all I know it might've been born there as there's a woodpile and under the broody shack. We had a yard bunny last year that didn't damage anything (yay!), but the squirrels wreaked havoc on the apricot trees. Now I have wads of apricot seedlings sprouting up in the raised beds where all the pits were buried. And, yes, they are wads and wads of about 10-15 seedlings per. Wretched squirrels.

 

[ronott1]

In the garden it's BT, NEEM, Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew (a bacteria found in rum that works like BT), blood meal, copious amounts of mushroom compost, and Rabbit Scram. I figure there's a percentage that's to be lost to pests, weather and wind, and thusly I overplant what I need. If there's extra, it's a bonus bounty to share.

Found a very small rabbit in my veggie compound this morning, about the size of a tennis ball with a pingpong ball-sized head. I spotted his tracks earlier. No idea how it got there and for all I know it might've been born there as there's a woodpile and under the broody shack. We had a yard bunny last year that didn't damage anything (yay!), but the squirrels wreaked havoc on the apricot trees. Now I have wads of apricot seedlings sprouting up in the raised beds where all the pits were buried. And, yes, they are wads and wads of about 10-15 seedlings per. Wretched squirrels.

How sweet about the cotton tail!

Squirrels are terrible!

 

[Beer can]

NEEM

Forgot about that one, one I picked up the sluggo spray bottles of neem was 90% off also. So I took all of them lol.
I needed it too. I grew those purple yard long beans last yr, the aphids loved them. All covered with ants and aphids. They didn't like the neem.

 

[pennyJo1960]

have not had a huge problem plant marigold use spray bottle 2% dish soap and water to spray plants

 

[getaclue]

A little over a week ago, Dd noticed there was a tiny bit of water coming from under the toilet. Yes, it needed a wax ring, so Dh bought the kid, and put it on. The problems was with the hardware in the kit. It was incomplete. Dh didn't know it. One of the bolts that holds the toilet in place, busted through the plastic ring thingy on the floor, connected to the drain pipe, that anchors the whole thing. In the meantime, we set the toilet back on, wax ring in place, but couldn't secure it good to the floor. Today, he learned how to fix the problem. It's taken him a good part of the day, but he's just about done.

At least he knows what parts he needs, and how to do it properly, because his is next. I'm sure the wax ring in his needs replacing too. That's because of the running such a high chlorine content through the plumbing for so long. It eats the wax seals away quickly.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good it was figured out fast and fixed water can do so much damage

 

[microchick]

Forgot about that one, one I picked up the sluggo spray bottles of neem was 90% off also. So I took all of them lol.
I needed it too. I grew those purple yard long beans last yr, the aphids loved them. All covered with ants and aphids. They didn't like the neem.

I could bottle up about a million of those annoying Japanese Beetle, Lady Bugs, whatchamaycallems that we have around here and send them to you. They LOVE aphids. Only good thing about the little monsters. They battle to get in to hybernate in the fall and battle to get out this time of the year. We had about 25 of them crawling around on our bathroom window yesterday. My solution? Got out the shop vac and sucked the little beggers up. Of course now the exhaust from the shop vac smells like beetles.....

Went out tonight between storms to gather eggs. Found one of my little under two pound hens sitting on a single egg. Went to secure said egg and the sweet, tiny, beautiful little lady turned into a screeching, pecking, biting monster. I was yelling OUCH! STOP IT! until the little darling grabbed ahold of my hoody sleeve and started shaking it like a dog. I cracked up at that. It's just hard to take a tiny velociraptor seriously.

I finally secured the egg, thinking all the while that I was glad she wasn't @superchemicalgirl's renowned attack turkey. My big girls don't bite that hard when they are protesting me swiping their eggs. DH asked me what I was going to do if she decided to REALLY go broody and my response was, as fierce she was protecting that single egg, if she wants to hatch eggs, I value my skin enough to let her! She'll be a fierce mother hen.