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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Feb 3, 2013.

  1. oldnotdead

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    Ying/yang ....ants, little tiny (grease? ) ants.
    Killing them all over night...
    cottage cheese top, 1 Tblsp of borax 1 Tblsp sugar a drizzle of water. Mix well on the top and sit on counter where they were seen Go to bed. The restraint not to kill them when you see them in the morning. The next morning...no more ants.
     
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    Still no ants got the entire colony. This works in the garden as well but you need to hide it from honey bee activity. Under a box with bottom access to the lid underneath.
     
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    Outboard was not running right, replaced plug wires thought I found the cuprit wire but it was on the low speed cylinders. I ordered a new wire set and installed then and applied the gel to the electrodes going into the coil nice and evenly. Motor still was not right. Did a little research the gell I applied to the wires going into the coils is non conductive. :mad: What a dumb azz, when all else fails read the directions.
     
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    Yellow jackets!!!!!
     
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    500/1000 gallon propane tanks.

    Please people, can you block them up so they are not listing many degrees off level/plumb?
     
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    Put a cement slab down for the tank to sit on. Level and true and keep the tank painted.
     
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    We complained so much about our tank they just dropped off a can of paint and said have at it.
    They shut down their service dept two years ago, now shut down the local business office.

    Looks like we are shopping for a new company.
     
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    The number of P poor drivers are increasing. Each driving session is like a minefield of escaping death and observing a litmus test of the degradation of American intellect.
     
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    Found a fuel filter on my outboard going to have to be a surgen to change that filter, set the over and under at mother f'ers at 25.
     
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    Day two of grandpup sitting new pup. Hhmmmm

    Need a new PAIR of slippers and hubby gets home and say WHATS THAT! Oh you can still see it. Ya, it's bright red Shiney and the size of a golf ball. Pup bull rushed me at the door, mind you barely 30 #'s, in trying to save my self the door slammed me in the forehead. The swellings come down in 3 hrs.
    Seriously dang near knocked me out...lol
    She's so innocent looking. Oh did I mention when I saw the literal pile of slippers,I yelled out her name saying What did you do! Her reply was to pee on the floor. Been a hysterical day really...ya
     
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    I want to go back to Canada. Screw this weather.

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    Meanwhile, the Canadian wildfires...

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    we didn’t deal with those when we were up there a couple of weeks ago.
     
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    Oh how I wish I was spiked out in the bush, dealing with bugs, work 16's then go back to cam and cook. Hell no I do not miss it most of the time.
     
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    What I would do if this scum of the earth that did this was in front of me. Infuriating.

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    Horrible scum. Lazy jerks couldn't even take them to an adoption center.
     
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    Not only that, but someone dumped him locked in his kennel? I'm not even going to say what I would like to see happen to a person who could do that do a dog. I'm not a cat person, but whoever did this deserves the same thing for dumping four week old kittens.

    Sometimes it's difficult to have any faith at all in humanity.
     
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    One time I had some guy get into a domestic with his girlfriend. Decided to snap her dogs neck and throw it in the bath tub. I found it in there...local prosecutor showed up on the scene and told me exactly what she wanted in terms of evidence collection and documentation. She wanted his A×× in a vice. Never seen a prosecutor so pissed.
     
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    SIL mothers dog was shot by neighbor in road ditch... it ended up in the news on Local TV stations and he was arrested and prosecuted, guns confiscated. She went scorched earth. He got doxed byon line by animal activists, death threats made....
     
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    A story about a dog being killed that kind of surprised me: I was living in New Mexico, renting one of 3 rooms in a big house with 2 other active duty guys and the owners had chickens. We all worked different shifts and the owners were sometimes there, sometimes in Montana. We looked after their chickens and one of the guys left the coop open one night. 18 of 25 chickens dead when I got home that morning. Owner caught the neighbors dog in the act that following night and ended that dog with a shotgun. Carried the dog to the neighbor, who said sorry for my chicken killing dog, buried it and nobody was remotely upset. I heard the story over breakfast the following Saturday. I guess farmers see things different.
     
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