Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Don't like to be nasty about someone with such low self-esteem, but since he seemed to think the world was a conspiracy especially designed to 'get' him, I would say 'good riddance'.
I think I am having a debate the great eye right now. He claims to not blink.
I took the boys to a park with a pond and we caught little sunfish all afternoon! Then Steve met us there after he got off work and we grilled burgers and then fished some more till it got dark. Even Josh caught several little fish (2-3"). We just tossed them back, but it was a whole lot of fun. I got to practice my whistle for a while, too!
Sounds like an idyllic afternoon. You will look back with happiness on days like today all of your life.
That's okay...obviously you've never had them wipe out your entire crop before. :)
There are lots of squirrels here, I really don't mind them, they stay in the trees pretty much and never bother my crops, I have 5 dogs that always keep a wary eye out for trouble. They do get most of our guavas though (the squirrels, not the dogs), which is annoying, they can access those without touching ground. When we were kids, deer were more trouble, though they are certainly beautiful animals. Strangely, my dogs like mangos, when they eat too many, they get sick.
I like the wildlife, though I do view some of the exotic and large lizards with a jaundiced eye. Also most of the spiders I could do without, esp. widows.
Outside of "in the belfry" I have some roosting in my attic vent. :) (There's a screen there so they don't get into the attic)
I wouldn't mind the squirrels if they didn't get every nut on the tree. I mean...they cut down every nut! We were okay on the apple tree. There were always enough apples for us, the squirrels, and the neighbors. We were feuding with the squirrels over the corn until I started letting catnip grow between the rows and our adopted stray plus the other neighbor cats keep the squirrels out of there.
The deer are more a problem with ornamentals and I don't get quite as upset. (I pity the fool who comes between me and my food!) They like to munch my varigated hostas (they leave the blue ones alone) and impatiens. In my vegetable garden they usually nibble the tops of beans and peas maybe once or twice a season and they may trample something, but that's it. Maybe deer don't like catnip!
We had a bat living in our attic vent. We'd see her hanging there when we went up to the attic, but it was on the side with no flooring, so we couldn't get a close look. We called her "Aunt Batty."
A couple of months ago, I moved some things to that side of the attic and got a close look at "Aunt Batty." She was dead.
She was also a leaf.
Morning All!
Speaking of food,I wonder if you or 2JM can answer a question about BBQ. Why do you parboil ribs? Is it to make the meat come off the bone easy?
I just recently (8 months ago) quit trying to follow a low fat regime and am now glorying in all this kind of food. Did some ribs last night, but has been so long since I tried anything like it that I was a little unsure how to proceed. Any advice will be appreciated.
*groan* heh heh.
Did you break it to your kids?
-Kevin
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