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[KMHunter]

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SCORE!!!!!

 

[pettec63]

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Did anybody figure out what kind they are?? I don't know but their cool looking!

 

[CarolynF]

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Good Karma! Way to go!!

 

[Ogress]

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Score! I'd be looking at Broody's post from yesterday for some great ideas! She has a nice set-up.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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God, wish I was 62 so I could retire and collect Social Security retirement and whatever else retirement I get from my employers and be through menopause so the 'curse' will be gone FOREVER. I know TMI!!! Once I hit 50 I didn't care anymore. Just wanted to be done with it all! Course, who knows what ailment I might get at 63. So, ya, maybe I'd want to be 55 again. Actually, I'm 52 so I guess we'll see! At 63 I might want to be 50 again.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Yes I have always been told bumbles do sting and I have been told it hurts. I know mason bees rarely sting and the people I know who have been said it is about like a skeeter. I would take 10 honey to one wasp/hornet. Them suckers flat out hurt me bad

The worst bee sting I ever had was a bald-faced hornet. OMG....it was like a very bad burn, mixed with a hornet sting. I'm very allergic to bees and I always have benadryl with me but probably need an epi-pen like my dad has....my DH says that "meat bees" or "ground hornets" are right up there with the baldies in terms of pain from their sting. I've been stung on my head by a honeybee (once), stepped on a bumblebee (once), got stung on my knee (once) by a yellow jacket and then I got nailed by the bald-faced when I moved here. I was in a store in Wauconda and felt something on my hand. Without even thinking, I brushed at it. It was a bald-faced hornet and it was right on the webbing of my thumb. Man it HURT!

I agree....bald-faced hornets are the absolute worst. OUch

 

[broodytood]

Did all your mint drown?

 

[broodytood]

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nah, thy're not moving. They're just sayin that so they can join the BEST THREAD ON BYC!!!!

X2!

 

[broodytood]

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Flys don't like mint either I have a pot at my front and back doors. It does help, but be carefull mint like to really grow like crazy and becomes a pest it self.

I keep all mine it pots and in cinder block wells. It's chocolate mint and smells really yummy. I need to find Corsican mint again. I had it growing between my paver stones, it smelled so good as you'd walk across it and it would keep the mosquitos away, but it all died off and the area has now been taken over by thyme which is pretty now that it is bloom, but it forms thick mats that trip people.

Did your mint drown?

 

[broodytood]

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Netti Pot. - I can only get myself to use it when I get real bad like that, and then I start gagging, but sometimes manage to remove a huge mucus plug that I can feel slipping from my ear canals and other sinus cavities as it is coming out. If you can get past the gag and grossness factor, your head will immediately feel much better for a couple of days. Sometimes it takes quite a few tries to loosen all that nastiness. I was shocked at how much my hearing improved!

X2 same here

The stuff I caught 2 weeks ago was so bad that even my nettipot couldn't help because I didn't get using it soon enough! It wouldn't flow! But otherwise it saves ya from a sinus infection!!!