Random Thoughts

morgan said:

Well, I can't remember why he said not to use Drano, but he did say it can actually make things worse. I hope it works in your case-just remember the bleach idea if there's ever a "next time!"

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The reason may be that Draino was created for thick metal pipes and can corrode even those. These days with so many pipes being pvc plastic it can actually melt them and unseal glued connections or rubber washers and grommets. It's one seriously hot chemical reaction.

Oh for the septic go outside to a spot just outside the house where a large pipe with a white cap is. It may be under an oblong lid that says septic or drain. Use a pipe wrench on the square projection to open the pipe and look for an obstruction there. Kids like to flush underwear and stuff. Sometimes it gets stuck at just that spot.

king family fan said:

My drain is all better.

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Was it the aspirin?

Why ring eight bells at noon...and why ask permission? Why not just give the rope a tug? That's my question(s).

Out of the blue I shall tell you about why you should be careful who you clear a beaver dam with.

Every so often I feel the floor shake and hear the thump of distant dynamite. That's how they clear dams these days. You have to or they flood good farm land. It's not how we used to do it. We used picks and shovels. You tear the poor devils careful work apart but keep an eye out for snakes as you do because they love to bed up in them. We carried pistols for such occasions. I had a 45 ACP, cousin Rodney a 357, and Jeff a 44. It was overkill really but nobody had a 22.

I love Rodney. He is fun to be around and you never know what he will do because he has no filter to stop him but he is dangerous. Sure enough a water moccasin swam from the pile of sticks just as we were breaking through and the water to pour over the top. We all had our guns out but it decided to swim through Jeffs wide stance legs as we stood knee deep in water. Kapow! Right through the head dead on target just as it had started under him. A great shot considering how they shift from side to side as they swim. What was funny was the conversation that followed.

Jeff- What the hell did you do that for?
Rodney- You might have gotten bit.
Jeff- Did it ever occur to you I might rather get bit than have my pecker shot off?
Rodney- It never occured to me I might miss.
Jeff- Well think about it.
Rodney- Did it ever occur to you it might have bitten your pecker?
Jeff- Good point.

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Scratch said:

Wolf spiders are scary looking but not poisonous so when the office ladies were up on their chairs yelling "kill it" I tried to explain they were harmless. I then went and picked it up in my hand to take outside. Just because they are not poisonous does not mean they do not bite. I forgot that. They bite hard. I threw it down and stomped it before I could stop myself and they cheered. So much for my lesson about being nice to spiders.

I got bit by a brown recluse just above my thumb on the back of my hand while moving boxes at work. Never knew it till it swelled up like a water filled surgical glove. Rotted a small spot there. Eh. Cool scar now to go with the rest of my collection.

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Until they bite you real hard on your hand and then your first instinct is to throw them on the floor and stomp on them!

Dana Jean said:

When a cop tells you to get out of the car, get out of the car. Keep your damn mouth shut and just do what he/she says. If they do wrong against you, get an attorney and take care of business. Until then, cooperate, shut up and give them NO reason at all to f with you. And if they go ahead and f with you, you've got a case and see it through to the full extent of the law.

These people arguing, fighting back, refusing to do something escalate their own problems 9 times out of 10. Sorry if I offend anyone, but I think cop baiting is happening. on the flip side, I think innocent people ARE getting pounded on by cops for no reason at all. That is why I believe 100% that all officers should have body cams. The cars have them yes, but it doesn't see everything. The body cam will show the up close and personal interaction of what is going on.

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I respect police officers. They get nothing but support from me. Having a Police Station three doors down might have something to do with it.

Are mice capable of plotting your demise? This one job, that old log cabin I told you about, well it has a crawl space and the space under the addition...added around 1923 maybe, that space is larger than the crawl space under the original cabin...that space is the room you have under your truck. But in the other there's room for a furnace, water heater...and the ground slopes up to the smaller space...and this is where the ground is home to mice...figure they might be Taliban mice as they have caves dug into the slope. Heh! Wouldn't that be something, be down there this weekend trying to install a dedicated circuit for a microwave--the breaker panel is down there, too--and have some little mouse come out with an AK shouting Allah Akbar! There's this one hole, honest-to-God, it is a rectangle whereas the other holes are the traditional arch-top mouse hole. Always gotta be someone different, hey? I asked the owner if we could gas 'em...figured to stick the spray foam insulation nozzle in the hole and let er rip. Still waiting for confirmation. But yeah, that rectangle hole is something else...imagine some little mouse, little chisel, hammer, fine-tuning the entrance, squaring it up. I bet it's plumb, too.

FlakeNoir said:

That 'mouse with the AK's' image cracked me up...
Oh but, please don't gas 'em....

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Smart bomb? Or one of those Bunker Busters? The holes have some size to them...I'm thinking these aren't your cute Mouse on the Mile...these guys have been working out. Plus they have the Philosophical Mouse living in the square hole...probably some type of adviser, my guess...stack of war manuals in the hole, sketches and diagrams...maybe one of those little boards, mice and humans configured on it. Would love to see how the adviser has me designated...probably something really insulting...maybe a little Gumby, beard inked in...legs and arms chewed on. Ice 9?

Pray for me...I'm going in tomorrow...Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? I might take a photo of that rectangular-holed mouse entrance...unreal...and since reality is Ralph maybe I'll believe it when I see it as a photo...I've also been given the go-ahead to nuke the rodents with spray-foam insulation...alert the government. Planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do. I have to drill a hole into the bottom of the wall behind the refrigerator...and my center will be alarmingly exposed to the square hole...so I'll be looking up, big honking drill bit in the screw-shooter cordless...I wonder if mice are online? Anyone hear any chatter? Whatever the outcome, I suspect that even as I try to install a dedicated circuit my dedicated circuit will loose power and when I crawl from the space I'll be brushing the dust from my feet both there and in other realities. Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Hey Walt, not to scare you or anything but there are other things that live in holes.

What the devil? My first didn't post so I tried again and alakazam double post. How is it you void one of these?

Scratch said:

What the devil? My first didn't post so I tried again and alakazam double post. How is it you void one of these?

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Once it's posted all you can do is Edit to change it or ask one of the mods to delete it. If you choose to edit you have to do it within 10 minutes of the first time you post it.

I had mice in my house once. I was freaked. I was alone except for my dogs.
Husband had left by then..

Farmer behind the house had cut down his corn. And they came a runnin.
Cute, at first. I would get my little humane trap and drive them to a field. (screaming all the way at the scratchy noise it made) and release.

Then .... they all showed up. OMG! I thought I was safe upstairs. One morning I woke up to my dog nosing the glass on the table beside the bed.
In it - floated a mouse! How long had it been trying to swim?

What if I took a sip in the middle of the night?

They got into my jeep in the garage. I would have to slam the doors in the driveway and watch them run out. AHHH

I had to get the de-con after that. And that's when the real nightmare began....