Someday it will be determined that there are preservative properties in cat hair.
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Aug 24, 2014 6:30:26 pm PDT #4842 of 30000
brillig
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2014 6:32:21 pm PDT #4843 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Then I'm gonna live forever!
meara - Aug 24, 2014 6:33:23 pm PDT #4844 of 30000
Annoyingly, my neighbors have a yellow jacket nest in their eaves, and I told them (it's the back of their house but the front of mine) and they said they got someone out who told them it was yellow jackets, but "they'll all fly away in about six weeks or so, and we are going to wait until that happens to seal it up". Ugh.
sarameg - Aug 24, 2014 6:36:05 pm PDT #4845 of 30000
Oh, Matt, you still haven't had cats long enough for that...
shrift - Aug 24, 2014 6:41:02 pm PDT #4846 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
IF you were going to describe your decorating ethos in a few words, how would you?
Nerdy bibliophile with a touch of French bordello to keep things interesting?
I got my CSA box on Saturday and I'm trying to thing of things to make that will keep or freeze well because I'm going to Atlanta on Wednesday. I'm thinking kale pesto and black bean and corn chili. I also need to do something about the giant head of broccoli.
-t - Aug 24, 2014 6:58:00 pm PDT #4847 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Roast broccoli soup?
Did not get salads made. Oh, I think we might be getting lunch for one of my meetings. Maybe I'd better bring in an avocado and a can of salmon just in case.
billytea - Aug 24, 2014 8:01:59 pm PDT #4848 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
YJs are hornets, and much tougher and hard to get at than wasps.
Technically, yellowjackets aren't true hornets (they're Vespula rather than Vespa). Still closely related, they're both in the Vespinae subfamily of wasps. Still sound advice, of course.
Consuela - Aug 24, 2014 8:16:04 pm PDT #4849 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I didn't get food made for the week, but I did roast some beets and make beet pesto, which is such an awesome color. And I made cookie dough for oatmeal-cherry-walnut cookies, which I put in the fridge to age overnight. The recipe called for chocolate chips, but I just don't do chocolate chips in oatmeal cookies.
Also got another load of laundry done, walked the dogs, went to the gym, vacuumed the house, tried to clean the rugs up a bit, and finished my book for book club on Tuesday (Atonement, if anyone cares).
My back is really bothering me, though, so I'm happy to be plunked in bed, trying to write a little bit.
Atropa - Aug 24, 2014 8:18:12 pm PDT #4850 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
all the nice environmental sites said if there was a wasp/human intersection - KILL. They are not human friendly or pollinators. We trapped then sprayed and dug and sprayed
Pour gasoline around the nest site, walk about 15 feet away, start throwing lit firecrackers at it.
... what? That's how my dad taught me how to deal with them.
aurelia - Aug 24, 2014 8:19:33 pm PDT #4851 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I have an allergy to wasp stings, so my method is avoidance coupled with finding someone else to deal with removal. The one time I was stung, my entire arm was swollen and feverish for 3 days.