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4614. wabbit - 8/7/2010 1:47:44 AM t'ful, get some very concentrated peppermint oil, dilute it enough to get it to spray through a spray bottle and spray it around the attic. You'll want to do this when you'll be out of the house for a while, because the smell will be strong, but squizz folk and mouse people don't much like peppermint. I've had very good luck clearing the attic in my parent's house with peppermint oil and it's completely non-toxic. But believe me about leaving the house, it gets to your eyes.
Love the powder room!! And yes, unless that print is enormous and your frame will be gold-gilt and made of some extremely rare exotic wood, imho $700 is out of line for a frame. 4615. thoughtful - 8/19/2010 1:16:13 PM Thanks bhelpuri
Long story but we got one mouse gone and I think the other one is now gone too. We also had the "vermin entrances" plugged so I think we are all set, but time will tell. Still not sure how they were getting in, but had our suspicions.
Thanks for the peppermint oil hint...I'll share it with my neighbor up the street who is battling flying squirrels.
I had the lady of shallot framed now and got it with a perfect frame, and double matted for $170. Much much better...thank you Jo Ann's and a 60% off coupon!
We have a pastel of hubby's grandfather...the one who bought the property... over the mantle. While the mat colors are good, the frame is a little whimpy...I think I'll have that beefed up some so it fills the space better.
I've been retired for a couple of weeks now and still letting it all absorb. It still feels like a long and welcome vacation.
Next big thing is to ready for the memorial service for my Mom which I never had yet...I'm scheduling it for 9/11 which seems a very good day for memorials.
Going through her papers, I came across a very nice poem that she wrote about Happiness....I'll be sure to read it at the service. 4616. thoughtful - 8/19/2010 1:19:15 PM Today's the day they install the audio video equip in the new house...we decided to go with att uverse...be interested to see how it works. 4617. Ms. No - 8/20/2010 4:26:49 AM T'ful,
What a beautiful, wonderful home you've built. I love your wild-ass powder room and all of the lovely details. Elegant, harmonious, welcoming, what a splendid success! 4618. thoughtful - 8/22/2010 9:13:48 PM Thanks MsNo! Such compliments...you are too kind.
I'm so glad you called it welcoming as that's just what I wanted...when the architect first asked what kind of house I wanted...he was expecting cape or colonial or contemporary....but I said one that when people see the outside say, oh I want to see the inside too. I think we've gotten what we wanted...we have created an attractive nuisance...we've had strangers stop by asking to see the place! Especially the library though...it is formal but not off putting....so many of the monster homes they build up our way are formal and lovely, but make you feel like you've entered a hotel lobby or a public space...none of them feel cozy. This place is cozy.
ATT Uverse is working fine. Friends at work said...you'll love it! for a year and then they jack up the rates! I'm sure.
4619. wabbit - 8/31/2010 12:07:52 AM Cats rule.
4620. iiibbb - 8/31/2010 7:33:57 PM Dogs that draw blood are not "just playing".
I also have to admit a bias against someone with tattoos all over their body. 4621. wabbit - 9/1/2010 12:56:22 AM Agreed. There is another video floating around, a couple years old, of a pit bull puppy "playing with" what appears to be a 6-8 month old kitten. The problem is, this puppy blocks the kitten against a wall, then freezes - no tail wagging, no body motion, nothing. That is not a puppy playing, that is a puppy learning to hunt.
Some people are too stupid to live, never mind own animals. I feel sorry for the animals, but have other ideas for the people who think that kind of thing is cute.
I'm not someone who believes that any breed is inherently bad, but there are characteristics that carry through. Border Collies have "eye" and have to be watched around children. Most spaniels are nippy. But pit bulls, sadly, have been badly bred and now suffer the resultant P.R. problem. Not all of Michael Vick's dogs could be adopted out, but only two had to be put down, and one of those was for health reasons, not temperament.
Sigh. Enough of my soapbox for today.
Still, cats rule! 4622. iiibbb - 9/1/2010 1:41:36 AM I know pit bulls that are fine. But dogs are firearms...maybe worse. Control yours or suffer. 4623. wabbit - 9/3/2010 12:24:35 AM We had a woman come in once with a puppy she had adopted from a shelter - it looked to be mostly Doberman and was just lovely, a happy smiley wiggly pup. She said if she told her husband the dog might be part Doberman, he'd make her take it back and get something else. I suggested saying it was part coonhound.
Alas, she said part Doberman and the husband made her trade it in for a puppy that looked like a black lab. This new pup was only eight weeks old and was already snapping at us, at her, and had bitten both her children. I love dogs, but that pup needed to be put down. And eventually, after mauling her children a few more times, it was.
But at least it wasn't part Doberman.
So, iiibbb, you are exactly right. All dogs need proper socialization and a consistent environment. 4624. iiibbb - 9/3/2010 3:43:41 AM I think I read that labs attack more kids than all other breeds. 4625. Ms. No - 9/3/2010 8:13:18 AM Nah, it's Dachshunds. Followed by Chihuahuas, Jack Russell Terriers, Australian Cattle Dogs, Cocker Spaniels, and then Beagles. Mostly smallish dogs --- but they don't cause the damage that larger dogs do so it gets ignored.
In the same way that many people don't train their small dogs to sit or not to jump up. "Isn't that cuuuuute?"
No, it's obnoxious, and if it weighed 50lbs instead of 5 or 15, they'd have socialized it better.
I can't count the number of times I've heard a small dog owner brag about how macho their mutt is. "He thinks he's the boss of everybody. He goes after dogs five times bigger than he is."
That's an aggressive, uncontrollable animal, but if it attacked my Pitt-mix in a dog park or on the street, I'd have been the one having to put my dog down.
All apologies to Maisie who is about the cutest, sweetest thing I've ever seen. Arky's pup loves to snuggle and be in your lap, but she goes to her bed when she's told. She's quite a good girl! 4626. arkymalarky - 9/3/2010 2:38:14 PM Awwwww! But she does want to snuggle with company more rthan some of them want. She is a little sweetie, tho. But she doesn't like kids or my MIL. 4627. Ms. No - 9/4/2010 7:20:45 AM Kids are scary --- especially when you're only 8 inches tall!! 4628. wabbit - 9/4/2010 3:26:46 PM Mazie is a sweetie. So are her big siblings.
We used to say that ounce for ounce, the most dangerous breed is the Chihuahua. And I'm with Ms. No, jumping yappy dogs are obnoxious. My sister has a friend who has two teensy Yorkies, and with her and around people in general, they are well behaved. But when they come here, they go berserk yapping and trying to chase my cats, two of whom easily outweigh them by twice. And her excuse is, "Oh, but they would never hurt the cats." That's right, because if cornered, my cats would shred your dogs, and then you'd be pissed at me, instead of recognizing that this is the cat's home, not somewhere you can bring your dogs to entertain themselves. If my mastiff had decided to bark at your Yorkies in *your* house, how would that be?
Ignorance is ignorance. And it's not the dogs fault, it's the owner's fault.
For the record, my mastiff would never have barked at her Yorkies. Nor would the boxer or the ridgeback. I can't be as sure about the pig, he certainly would have been interested in them, for a few seconds, but after a sniff and a snort, I'd bet big money he'd have looked at me as if to say, "What the hell are those things?" and walked away from them. 4629. wabbit - 9/12/2010 9:58:00 PM A bit of happy fun news from cat world...
4630. wabbit - 10/10/2010 2:37:53 AM
I still love Maru... 4631. judithathome - 10/19/2010 9:20:18 PM (I suggested saying it was part coonhound.)
I seem to have forgotten how to italicize quotes!
Our late dog, Klaus (died at 18) looked like he was part dachshund but as I was walking him one day, this old man commented from his porch "That's a fine young coonhound you have there, Missy."...and i figured this guy was knowlegeable enough to know what he was talking about. 4632. wabbit - 12/3/2010 2:35:15 AM
4633. thoughtful - 3/21/2011 5:54:05 PM Living at the new house has afforded me opportunities to observe nature that I haven't had before.
I've learned how Canada Geese "do it" which includes lots of side by side dunking and letting water roll off their backs as well as this flip and roll move where they dunk under and upside down and flip over backward and roll over.
I also saw my first pair of wood duck
and my first pair of hooded mergansers
Life is good.
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