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[RaZ]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I remember !!!
Dancing is the 3rd best exercise there is !!!
The first being swimming (alot of swimming) and y'all know what the 2nd is...and alot of that is required also...NO QUICKIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, CL. You actually went there.

. I can't dance, three left feet. So your #2 is my #1, then roller skating is #2. #3 for me is when I have to do a delivery route, usually walk 6-10 miles while making deliveries while pushing a couple hundred lbs on a hand-truck.

I don't know where your minds are at...
Swimming IS good exercise, but it's a solo sport. Walking CAN be done alone or with a partner.
Dancing and skating can also be done solo, but is SO much more fun with a good partner.

Now what were we talking about?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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[VelvettFog]

So.....I have yet to hear how where the Bread & butter pickles ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


and now I am gone to fry pub cod & chips~~~~NIGHT !!!

Well .. When we got home I forgot them in the truck. So they sat in the back seat for a few days. Then I remembered I had them! So I ran out to the truck and brought them inside. They were gone the next day.

I'd say that I loved them

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Do you know what model your computer is? If you can read it to me - I can see if we have extra RAM that we'd recycle anyway at work.

The computer I'm talking about will have about the same - probably 2 - 256 chips for 512 total (or 1/2 Gig). But it was originally a top-of-the-line Dell business computer - so while it's not lightning fast, it works!

 

[Clumber]

2 Days ago I got the "water vole" in the mini hav-a-hart trap in my green house !
yesterday I went in the green house and found the Victor's rat trap tripped and a sparrow smashed in it.
Baite on the Victor's is a half walnut tied on with dental floss.
How a bird got in there I have no idea !
How a water beaver vole got in there is a mystery also !!!!!!!!! But I figured it must have burrowed in...but a sparrow ?????????????

At our old place in dead-center Olympia, we found out that our friends who had told us we should raise pigeons for our new litter of Clumbers had neglected to tell us that when you raise pigeons, you are also raising rats. Now don't get me wrong, I have had pet rats, I rescued "my" lab rat from my Psych classes at end of semester, and I think they are cool critters and awesome. However, they need to stay away from my home and the birds we paid >5$ each for. So we started doing a "trapline". I cannot tell you how many times we'd be outside doing yardwork or whatever when we'd hear a SNAP! and one of our dogs would come to us hanging her head with shame.... rat trap swinging from her flews. We also caught tweety birds in the traps. And a possum (which, btw, are serious pigeon predators, too. Didn't know that until this..). We would also hide or stash the traps where we'd think other critters wouldn't be able to access especially 65# Clumber Spaniels! Yet this kept happening since Clumber Spaniels have Jedi powers for pulling something they regard as food to within their reach.

What I finally did was go out in the middle of the night, furious to have found 2 more headless pigeons ($10!!) and more rat droppings in our loft, and bought a Gamo pellet gun at 10 minutes before close at Big5. With red light. I spent the next few months having sniper nights and setting up bait piles of peanut butter, nutter butters (my group's experiment at the UW was to find out if the rats learned a maze faster if they liked the reward more. They loved Nutter Butter cookies far more than anything else. News you can Use!), Ritz crackers, etc. I have no idea how many Gamo and I removed, but had the enemy been actual rats at Stalingrad, I would've earned many medals there.

Was far more effective, was a little bit of fun and improved my marksmanship, and no more pulling snap traps from my dogs' faces.

Happily (and I am knocking on all of the Amazon forest) we have not had a rodent problem out here in the near-sticks, yet.

 

[DeesHens]

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[Clumber]

You can glue ping pong balls on the aggressive guys....

Mighta helped !

I'd recommend a nailgun instead so you don't have to wait for the glue to set.


What?

 

[DeesHens]

Quote: Thanks. Actually we have been waiting for a call back from HD. I think they dropped the ball so will call tomorrow again.
It looks nicer & it lasts longer ... we have the marine climate so metal rusts faster. DH doesn't want to do it over in 10 years or so.
~Dee~

 

[DeesHens]

Quote: Thank you Dave. Nothing showed up but black pvc coated gloves or chicken coops.

~Dee~

 

[DeesHens]

So.....I have yet to hear how where the Bread & butter pickles ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


and now I am gone to fry pub cod & chips~~~~NIGHT !!!

I'll be right over!

~Dee~