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03-30-2020, 12:59 PM #126
Hmmm....I do have some freezer-burned habs, scorpions, and ghost peppers I could throw down...
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03-30-2020, 01:11 PM #127
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03-30-2020, 01:17 PM #128
alternative is chopping up those and letting them sit in warm cooking oil for a day or two, then pour that down the holes.
We have mountain beavers (no, that's not an R. Crumb story) and deer that destroy saplings. I find that hot oil on the trunks and fronds keeps the deer off and the battle with the mountain beavers encroaching into the gardens has been won by pouring hot oil into their burrows.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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03-30-2020, 01:21 PM #129
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03-30-2020, 01:22 PM #130
Just be careful pouring hot oil on your beavers. The last thing you need is a trip to the ER right now.
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03-30-2020, 01:51 PM #131
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03-30-2020, 02:01 PM #132guy who skis
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03-30-2020, 02:10 PM #133
We gave our 12Y.O. Punk a 24 hour internet timeout because he was being a dick when he was off the computer/switch/phone.
It’s rocking his world.Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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03-30-2020, 02:20 PM #134
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03-30-2020, 02:20 PM #135
We have one family we are letting socialization take place with. We spent the last weekend targhee was open camping/swimming/eating/skiing so that ship had sailed. We are BC skiing together a few times a week.
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03-30-2020, 02:54 PM #136Registered User
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03-30-2020, 02:56 PM #137
If it is a 100% closed loop, maybe. But if your friend has one other friend who has one other friend who has one other friend then you are just linking households together. Consider that maybe 20-30% of infected are asymptomatic. Especially the youth. You are just playing roulette.
Not sure about the weather where you are, but why not have them just hang out outside?
My kid is 8. No unsupervised in real life visits with others. We may try a fire road hike with some friends this week. Plays in the yard and on our court. Stays 6’ away from the neighbors kids but they will run around a bit some evenings. Been on cheeskid.com with friends and FaceTime or Zoom play dates.
The most responsible thing we can all do is keep our distance from anyone not in our household. Or a small closed loop. But that would almost mean having one shopper.
We tried to close loop with some friends but everyone else either had a first responder/ health professional or and elderly or compromised household member. So my only child gets very limited real kid time. It’s tough. But it’s better than being an active vector.
Stay safe. Headed into week three of lock down. At least my kid has school work. My sisters kids school is now optional. Wtf.
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03-30-2020, 03:02 PM #138
Coronavirus complaint/commiseration thread.
Worked an 11 hour day yesterday with my day job. My extended outdoor break was planting bulbs in the garden with my wife and one of the kids. Picked up a deer tick in my underarm as a result. Spot still is sore. Grrrr
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03-30-2020, 03:14 PM #139
Yeah, we ultimately decided outside only. The kids seem ok with it. I have overall been impressed with how well they have adapted without complaining, though I do sometimes wonder how this experience will shape their worldview.
Last night I was watching some dumb movie on cable and the people were all partying and socializing and it looked so weird to me. Wow, look at that, they are close to each other and not afraid of catching a disease. Then I immediately realized that's an absurd thought. But also how quickly my mindset has changed. Normal socializing somehow seems like forever ago and it was only a few weeks.
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03-30-2020, 03:14 PM #140
The WTF is understood...but the optional is probably because of the special education law FAPE....and in that district not all kids have access to a computer and/or internet access to do “distance learning”.
FAPE is special education law that says all kids have to have access to the same curriculum....so districts that have lower income families/students...or don’t have computers at home.....the districts can’t grade anything/therefore it’s optional....
It’s screwed up, but it’s a federal law. The district I’m in is going through it right now....a lot of push back....understandable....and will probably lead our district to providing computers to all students in the very near future....so this never happens again. (We are out for the unseeable future/and all work we are assigning is optional)....yikes.
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03-30-2020, 03:17 PM #141
Thanks for the ear advice that turned to mile and beaver advice that I might apply to my gopher issue that is separate than the rats. Rats chewed through a vent’s metal grate. Just trying to determine if they set up a nest inside before I seal it back up. Caught five so far this past week. Still more around I think. Have not located a beat inside. But we have shit every where cause that is what happens in ski season.
Gopher suck. I’ll try chili I’ll on them. Doubt that will work.
I picked up a tick Friday while on a nearby hike. Got it off before it burrowed. We hiked a less used trail cause all our normal spots close to home are now packed.
This is the beat my garden has looked in March by far. Usually my winter garden is over grown and nothing is being done for summer. Found the time to clean things up, prep and plant right on schedule. Even going to cycle in plants every three weeks for continuous harvest over months. Victory Garden.
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03-30-2020, 03:36 PM #142
I found some weird tools hanging in my grandpa's barn and asked my uncle about it. It's an iron plate with a long spike you put in the ground next to a gopher hole. There's a sleeve that holds a 20ga shot shell and a trigger device connected to bait. When mr. gopher hits the bait, the shell goes off and the concussion - not the shot - kills the gopher and others within a certain radius. Can't imagine they sell such a device anymore, but unc said it worked great and had a lot of them.
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03-30-2020, 03:40 PM #143Registered User
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Ha! I'm sure my neighbors would love it if shotgun shots went off a few times a day/week.
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03-30-2020, 03:45 PM #144
All the time around here
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03-30-2020, 03:50 PM #145
A friend of my dad's developed something similar, only it was a .410 shell that discharged horizontally when the varmint popped his head out of the hole. It didn't find a ready market...
Dad fashioned flexpipe from the lawnmower exhaust that ran into the holes. You then ran around filling up the other holes with exhaust gas coming out. No idea of its effectiveness.
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03-30-2020, 04:15 PM #146
Back on track, with an Anti-Complaint
A hair salon in our village (shut down as non-essential) has hired my wife to stand up a web store to sell their hair products on line. Normally that's a no-no, but given Covid issues, the brand has relented.
As part of the deal she got a brand new n95 mask.
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03-30-2020, 04:43 PM #147
Uber rich landlord waited until today, the 30th, to cash my March rent check. Thanks, buddy.
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03-30-2020, 05:15 PM #148Formerly someone else!
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Agree, seeing people socialize on TV is disconcerting .... and, with more tube time, commercials are really freaky!
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03-30-2020, 05:20 PM #149
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03-30-2020, 08:14 PM #150
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