Bear Down Wildcats

Longhorned wrote:Maybe next somebody can inform the higher-ups and get the boss fired.

Parents are probably best placed to do that, wouldn't you think?

PieceOfMeat wrote:Previous Mouse Trap RAP champion ready to help out if a new trap design is needed

That's very clever.

Limit of one mouse per contraption. I wouldn't go so far as "cruelty-free." The next step is to release the mouse, which will either be devoured by a predator, or run into my house where he'll either drown or get his neck snapped.

2nd time in 8 months I've been laid out by some form of food poisoning or stomach flu. Barely functioning to be able to crawl to the bathroom.

Longhorned wrote:Limit of one mouse per contraption. I wouldn't go so far as "cruelty-free." The next step is to release the mouse, which will either be devoured by a predator, or run into my house where he'll either drown or get his neck snapped.

not to mention that the mouse has to be dealt with while alive, by a person. That's not cruelty free to either creature. I can just imagine someone being freaked out while trying to put a lid back on that bottle while the mouse is freaking out inside.

scumdevils86 wrote:2nd time in 8 months I've been laid out by some form of food poisoning or stomach flu. Barely functioning to be able to crawl to the bathroom.

The silver lining is that you'll jump start the next phase of your weight loss.

There's a "suspicious device" at McClelland Hall currently.

TPD bomb squad on the scene.

Of course my upstairs AC craps out in the middle of the first heat wave of the year. $600 for the possible fix or $10K to replace the damned thing. This hopes and prayers fix better work.

When I left the house at 830 this morning there was no A/C. But the property management company says they can't do anything about it yet unless my wife or I left work early...which neither of us can. So I am just hoping it is working when I get home.

legallykenny wrote:Of course my upstairs AC craps out in the middle of the first heat wave of the year. $600 for the possible fix or $10K to replace the damned thing. This hopes and prayers fix better work.

Welcome to home ownership!

scumdevils86 wrote:When I left the house at 830 this morning there was no A/C. But the property management company says they can't do anything about it yet unless my wife or I left work early...which neither of us can. So I am just hoping it is working when I get home.

Welcome to your place being run by a management company!

SCCats wrote:

legallykenny wrote:Of course my upstairs AC craps out in the middle of the first heat wave of the year. $600 for the possible fix or $10K to replace the damned thing. This hopes and prayers fix better work.

Welcome to home ownership!

I paid $7500 for a new AC 2 weeks ago. The old one was 18 years old and the yearly upkeep was getting out of hand. The new one is quieter and keeps the house cooler for less monthly costs.

SCCats wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:When I left the house at 830 this morning there was no A/C. But the property management company says they can't do anything about it yet unless my wife or I left work early...which neither of us can. So I am just hoping it is working when I get home.

Welcome to your place being run by a management company!

yeah. i'm 30 years old and i have never actually rented a place before so much of this has been new to me since i moved in with my wife over the last couple years. i guess some handyman is going to be sent out tomorrow morning. probably gonna be 90 something in the house when I get home though.

Good thing it's cool enough you don't need ac.

totally. only 97 right now.

azgreg wrote:Good thing it's cool enough you don't need ac.

Says the man getting on a plane for Seattle. Better break out the parka.

Dead alternator and a battery on both cars in the span of 10 days. Over $500 I can't afford right now with the wife starting school and us just getting married.

My neighbor has a three-story tree that had 6-8" bean pods that are dead during the summer. As the monsoon winds pickup this time of year I have THOUSANDS of these fucking bean pods blow into my pool and all over my backyard. If the pods aren't skimmed out of the pool immediately, they sink and fall apart, leaving small beans all over the bottom of the pool along with other tiny broken leaves and debris. The vacuum can only pick up the small parts so I have to pick the pod shells out by hand from what I can't get with the skimmer net.

I have mostly rocks and a small patch of grass in my yard. I can take the pods off the grass but on the rocks they begin to break into small pieces making it tedious to clean up. The pods are very thin and brittle. Nothing make me want to rage and commit suicide than spending hours in the yard picking up after this motherfuckers tree. Last summer, after spending a full hour just cleaning them out of the pool, the winds picked up and I witnessed hundreds of pods gracefully tumble into my pool. Rage.

I want him to cut it down but I know he won't. My only other option would be to erect a 50-foot net on my wall which is rediculous. I'm going to call the HOA tomorrow. This tree causes me an increase in labor every weekend (to stay on top of it I would need to be raking and skimming every day) and sometimes more money when his tree blows shit in the pool that causes me to have to shock it, etc.

I hate this dude's tree.

Note: he also waters his weeds in the front yard. It's the same species of weeds that I have and I've witnessed him using a hose and watering them. Wtf.

That blows. I wonder if there's some way to get it to stop spawning pods. Maybe look on the interwebs and see if anyone has had a similar problem?

Tradition and the authority on etiquette, Emily Post, declare that the responsibility of tree debris clean-up falls to the person who owns or rents the property where wind or gravity takes it. It is not the responsibility of the owner of the tree.

As someone who spent over $10,000 removing trees recently, I resent this tradition and etiquette. I have a ton of autumn work to do, thanks to my neighbors' trees. And every spring my toilets and showers turn into geysers when the roots from my neighbors trees back up my sewage line, forcing me to pay $150 to a sewerage service to come stand in my neighbor's yard and clear out the line.

BMalo-

That sucks and is annoying as hell. Are the branches coming into your yard? If so you should be able to get him to cut down the branches that hang over your property line. But wind blowing debris into your yard... you are probably screwed.

Pima Indians used those pods to make flour.

When life gives you mesquite pods...



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Merkin wrote:Pima Indians used those pods to make flour.

When life gives you mesquite pods...

I almost brought that up. Mesquite flour isn't cheap online. I was curious so I opened a pod from my mom's neighbor's tree, and those beans are pretty tasty.

Longhorned wrote:

Merkin wrote:Pima Indians used those pods to make flour.

When life gives you mesquite pods...

I almost brought that up. Mesquite flour isn't cheap online. I was curious so I opened a pod from my mom's neighbor's tree, and those beans are pretty tasty.

But mesquite pods should be picked off trees, not dead off of ground to make flour.

Alieberman wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Merkin wrote:Pima Indians used those pods to make flour.

When life gives you mesquite pods...

I almost brought that up. Mesquite flour isn't cheap online. I was curious so I opened a pod from my mom's neighbor's tree, and those beans are pretty tasty.

But mesquite pods should be picked off trees, not dead off of ground to make flour.

I used to say that about cicadas. Boy was I wrong!

BMalo wrote:My neighbor has a three-story tree that had 6-8" bean pods that are dead during the summer. As the monsoon winds pickup this time of year I have THOUSANDS of these fucking bean pods blow into my pool and all over my backyard. If the pods aren't skimmed out of the pool immediately, they sink and fall apart, leaving small beans all over the bottom of the pool along with other tiny broken leaves and debris. The vacuum can only pick up the small parts so I have to pick the pod shells out by hand from what I can't get with the skimmer net.

I have mostly rocks and a small patch of grass in my yard. I can take the pods off the grass but on the rocks they begin to break into small pieces making it tedious to clean up. The pods are very thin and brittle. Nothing make me want to rage and commit suicide than spending hours in the yard picking up after this motherfuckers tree. Last summer, after spending a full hour just cleaning them out of the pool, the winds picked up and I witnessed hundreds of pods gracefully tumble into my pool. Rage.

I want him to cut it down but I know he won't. My only other option would be to erect a 50-foot net on my wall which is rediculous. I'm going to call the HOA tomorrow. This tree causes me an increase in labor every weekend (to stay on top of it I would need to be raking and skimming every day) and sometimes more money when his tree blows shit in the pool that causes me to have to shock it, etc.

I hate this dude's tree.

Note: he also waters his weeds in the front yard. It's the same species of weeds that I have and I've witnessed him using a hose and watering them. Wtf.

I'd be willing to bet it's not a mesquite tree...its a mexican lead tree. Mesquite pods are dense, and would just fall to the ground mostly below the tree....the lead tree has light pods with billions of seeds. Looks like this:

Alieberman wrote:

calstatetempe wrote:Pregnancy hormones.

Yow-za...they can make a wife say craaaaaazzzyyyy things.

Once in a while those pregnancy hormones will make your wife super horny.

Take advantage of those moments.

In honor of the OP from 2014, I present Round Two...

Unfortunately not in second trimester yet, still stuck in the pukey and pissy stage...

CalStateTempe wrote:

Alieberman wrote:

calstatetempe wrote:Pregnancy hormones.

Yow-za...they can make a wife say craaaaaazzzyyyy things.

Once in a while those pregnancy hormones will make your wife super horny.

Take advantage of those moments.

In honor of the OP from 2014, I present Round Two...

Unfortunately not in second trimester yet, still stuck in the pukey and pissy stage...

Congrats!!!!

Congrats, CST!

Well done CST!

Awesome. Life is gonna get more fun, and you are gonna be more tired (yes, it's actually possible to be more exhausted).

Congrats CST!

Odogg- that's it. I've been trying to figure out what kind of tree it is. Saturday I cleaned millions of those things out. How can I poison the tree?


/kidding





/sortof

BMalo wrote:Congrats CST!

Odogg- that's it. I've been trying to figure out what kind of tree it is. Saturday I cleaned millions of those things out. How can I poison the tree?


/kidding





/sortof

Ask an Alabama fan:

http://www.wsfa.com/story/14043972/toomers-corner-trees

Looking forward to posting my update from jail.

UAEebs86 wrote:

BMalo wrote:Congrats CST!

Odogg- that's it. I've been trying to figure out what kind of tree it is. Saturday I cleaned millions of those things out. How can I poison the tree?


/kidding





/sortof

Ask an Alabama fan:

http://www.wsfa.com/story/14043972/toomers-corner-trees

I remember that. What a shit show.

Congrats CST!

BMalo wrote:Congrats CST!

Odogg- that's it. I've been trying to figure out what kind of tree it is. Saturday I cleaned millions of those things out. How can I poison the tree?


/kidding





/sortof

My dental hygienist sure is a chatty bitch.

azgreg wrote:My dental hygienist sure is a chatty bitch.

Revenge is a dish best served with a lot of garlic and onions...

Chicat wrote:

azgreg wrote:My dental hygienist sure is a chatty bitch.

Revenge is a dish best served with a lot of garlic and onions...

I was going to eat a box of Oreo cookies beforehand, but I like your idea. I think next time I'll eat a bowl of sour kraut and asparagus followed up with a bag of flaming hot cheetos while I wait in the waiting room.

Alieberman wrote:BMalo-

That sucks and is annoying as hell. Are the branches coming into your yard? If so you should be able to get him to cut down the branches that hang over your property line. But wind blowing debris into your yard... you are probably screwed.

Actually, if the branches are hanging over the property line, you have the perfect right to prune them back to the property line. But the wood belongs to your neighbor, so don't keep it for firewood - put it back into his yard.

Disclaimer: IANAL.
Disclaimer 2: This statement is 100% true in Australia, I am not sure about it in any particular state in the USA.
Disclaimer 3: YMMV

Puerco wrote:Congrats CST!

BMalo wrote:Congrats CST!

Odogg- that's it. I've been trying to figure out what kind of tree it is. Saturday I cleaned millions of those things out. How can I poison the tree?


/kidding





/sortof

It is actually very tough to get enough Round-Up into a mature tree to kill it - really, really, tough. Round-Up has to enter through the living leaves and the active ingredient, Glyphosate, deactivates in the ground very quickly (which is a great advantage for killing weeds in the flower bed or even the lawn where you don't mind to wait a couple of weeks to replant/patch).

What you really need to do is ring-bark it and drill holes about 4 inches deep. Then smear the wound and fill the holes with Trichlopyr. I have no brand recommendations for Trichlopyr.

Another possibility would be Yates Path Weeder with active ingredients Diflufenican and Oxyflurofin. You can pour the Yates out on the ground if you don't want anything else to grow there for 2 years or more, but I you would really want to get it as close to the roots as you can to effect a mature tree - and remember that the roots extend out at least as far as the tree canopy, maybe more for a desert tree like a mesquite. It might take several applications to work.

I used Path Weeder to finally kill off a volunteer fig tree along my fence line. Round-up wouldn't touch it. I finally cut it off about 3 inches from the ground and IMMEDIATELY applied the path weeder in liberal quantities to the wound. Immediately means within 5 minutes in this case - otherwise the cells will 'close up' and start forming a scab that protects the plant from foreign crap - like poison - getting in. After three weeks there were a couple of anemic suckers sprouting from the just under the soil line. So I cut them off and reapplied another dose of path weeder to the cut ends. I even sanded off another maybe 8th of an inch from the main trunk and hit it again. The sucker is now officially dead just waiting for me to dig out its remains.

I've accidentally killed a bush with Round-up runoff. But a full-blown tree? You're probably right.

ugh...prepped ribs for tomorrow way to late tonight. (just non=stop other stuff kept getting in the way today).

Ribs are rubbed, wrapped in foil. I like to bake at 250 for 2 hrs then on the charcoal grill from 30-45 minutes.

but, I just remembered that I forgot to take off the membrane. ugh.

I'm sure they'll be fine, but I hate missing details like that when cooking because I'll know, even if my guests won't, or won't care.

I'm the same way especially with cooking for guests. I get really pissed if I miss even just one minor detail.

Why doesn't the butcher remove that membrane before we buy the ribs?

I hate mayonnaise,

BigSkyCatinMT wrote:I hate mayonnaise,

I love mayo...but certainly not American mayo. Belgian Frite sauce / andalouse sauce ftw.

Everybody hates mayo. It's like saying, "I hate plain, bitter cacao powder." The question is whether you hate things that have a mayo in them. And I still believe that anyone who rejects a sandwich because it has a light smear of mayo on the bread does so as an affectation.

Well yeah, no one is going to eat a spoonful of plain mayo. But I love mayo in many things.