Posted on 02/07/2025 12:37:59 PM PST by DallasBiff
LOL.
(The best duck dish I’ve had has been Thai.)
hey
Since we’re on the topic, the best duck dish I’ve ever had was the duck confit at the restaurant at Auberge La Goéliche hotel on the l’Île-d’Orléans, near Quebec City on the St. Lawrence River. I enjoyed Quebec City, didn’t see any of French Canadian haughtiness you see people complain about Montreal having. People were very friendly, they’d often immediately drop into English when they figured out you weren’t a French speaker. I’d go back, we ate very well, enjoyed the trip, prices were reasonable.
Bobby left out "illegal voting".
IMO, both leftists and Muslims should be shot on sight. I understand that this will not be a universally popular opinion, especially among respective members of each group
When I bought my house I wondered why certain lights would not work. I found a rat had bit into the power cable and electrocuted himself. The breaker tripped and saved the house.
I’ve always wondered where Rat was taking it...
“ Rats laugh at bucket traps, here in Pa. They can swim better than mice, too”
You didn’t leave them in there long enough.
Those little terriors are so aptly named. One stole my heart many years ago.
I wonder if “Tunder Thai” wouldn’t be a bad restaurant name.
Gosh, you’re outdoing yourself, tonight...
I had guinea pigs...
Nasty things.
But Rats were like you said
Easy and personable.
I only like about four or five things on the Chinese menu, and if I have to eat something, it’ll probably be chicken fried rice, hard to make that taste bad. Mongolian Beef, Peanut Chicken, a few others.
I discovered I liked cashew chicken when I sneezed while ordering, and it came instead of what I thought I was going to get.
Traps often do not work. Rats are smarter than we give them credit for being. A rat will come in from the side of a typical Victor spring trap and nibble on the bait calmly enough not to set it off.
I’ve read that households that have at least one cat won’t have a mouse/rat problem.
I’m a serial buyer of distressed properties. A lot of them have rats and I’ve learned you need a pretty tall “bucket” to trap a rat and drown it. Also they tend not to go into such traps, but one thing that seems to fool them is perlite on the surface of the water — it looks like a solid surface so they might jump down to it if the bait is appealing. So a typical outdoor trash can with at least a foot of water in it, a layer of perlite, some leaves, and bait — will sometimes yield a dead rat.
But pretty soon the rest of the rats catch on, and eventually you need a screen to separate the perlite from the water, and a sewer to dump the water...it does get stinky.
Mice are small and comparatively stupid. Most any method will get you dead mice.
It’s also helpful to provide the rats with a lot of free lunches. No water under the perlite for a while. When they regularly frequent a site for the grapes and nuts you leave for them, they’re not only comfortable with the setting, they trust the bait and maybe they let their guard down. Maybe. :(
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