...good idea...but I've got the grid coordinates of Richmond and a radio...
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I'm afraid of spooking the deer by opening the window. But if I can do that silently, you're right, there's a built in rest. I know that deer walk where I want to build.
It wasn't doe season or I'd have killed her.
It was a permanent stand near the top of a hill, most of the deer follow a creek bed in the bottom, anyway, they don't usually notice me...though I've heard that hillsides can swirl your scent around in odd ways.
When my family first moved down to Florida (Palm Beach) from Chicago back in '79 (I was 7), a HUGE roach flew into my hair.
My mom had sprayed it and we all though it would drop down and die. Nope. It came at me and started its death throes in my hair (which was almost waist-length at the time). I nearly fainted and couldn't breathe until my dad showed me the corpse on the floor bashed to a pulp.
Something similar happened about a month ago when I was up at 5AM with my baby. A big sucker was on the kitchen counter and I gathered my courage and sprayed it. It took off flying straight at me and I tripped over the stroller and leanded on the ground sreaming "My baby!". Everyone woke up running thinking it was a burglar. Instead they find me prone on the floor, clinging to the stroller's back wheels, sobbing hysterically, with a dying roach about 3 feet away on the ground.
No. That's why it's better for my wife to respond, 'cause I'd say something like "Get your head out of your backside and let your kid grow up..."
They're still gross.
ick.
I love reading history, but I'm not much of one for going and seeing it myself. I'd actually been to San Antonio a dozen times or more (Rose is from there) before I ever saw the Alamo, for instance. And then when I actually saw it, it was because we were staying in a hotel nearby, and walked past it on our way to a restaurant... I turned around, looked, and asked Rose, "Is that...?" Turned out it was!
I'm sorry Ruthy, but Bwaahaahaahaaaa!!!! BTW, you owe me a new keyboard...
The secret to keeping most of them out is to spray the outside of your windows and doors on a regular basis. Also, they usually move in pairs so when you see one, expect another.
They are terrible to kill though because of their large size. They live for over 5 minutes after you spray them and during this time they can rise from the dead and flutter around or thrash wildly until they right themselves for another dash at your feet.
My fear of roaches is a family joke. Even my 7 year old nephew has a rubber one he delights in tormenting me with.
It's very life-like and he puts it in drawers or in my shoes or even on a plate in the cupboard. I've nearly broken a dish or two because of that thing!
It would be hard for me not to say just that to her as well. My hubby is as non-political as they come, so I let him handle stuff like that.
...good idea...but I've got the grid coordinates of Richmond and a radio...
But, but, but - that would require close proximity!!! AAAAAAHHHH!
Whenever you get down in a holler the wind can do strange things... that's why I prefer to hunt high ground...
It wasn't doe season or I'd have killed her.
I hate it when that happens...the worst is when you get a bunch of deer and turkeys together...that's almost a no-win situation...
Texas has 'em too. I can't stand them.
One time I smacked one with my shoe. I was putting my shoe on, felt something inside, took my foot out, and out crawled the roach. Since I had the shoe in my hand, I smacked him hard with the heel. He didn't move for about 10 minutes... then he started wiggling around, so I smacked him again harder, then I flushed him.
Now I always spray them. And I always knock my shoes on the floor before I put them on!
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