In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by Brenda:
When you bug spray they usually that is the makers say keep kids and animals away.
I know that even the non-toxic bug spray I use around this place gets too me if I use to much of it.
Never seen anyone rave about bait traps like that. Glad they worked for him.
Well hindsight is 20/20. Maybe you can see about repairing your patio that won't cost you too much?
Well... Today is going to break 40, and tomorrow is going to be in the 50's. I should know by then if it worked or not. I've purposefully left a plate that has some ketchup on it about 3 feet past where the bait trap is, and I haven't seen an ant come to it in a few days. Even when it's in the 30's I would usually see about a dozen or so on it. They seem to LOVE ketchup. Fingers crossed.
The patio is pretty low on my priority list, but it probably wouldn't cost too much to fix it. It's just about 300-400 cheap stone pavers that were probably put on a flattened bed of dirt that had sand put over it before they were put down. The problem is that the ants pulled up what might quite literally be a ton of sand last year to make their hills, and instead of a relatively flat surface it is jagged all over and at least 30 of the pavers are busted.
It will be a pretty big job to fix on my own, but I'm up to it. Have to see how funds are after I get a few other much more important things done this spring like finally getting gutters on my house.
Sadly, I waited until Aluminum prices were no longer in their low point. The last quote I got on them was 3 years ago. It's been on the rise since then, and I'm sure the tarrifs aren't going to help things either. I probably will have to pay about $200-$250 more than I would have if I had done them earlier. Oh well...
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The ants are probably attracted to the sugar in the ketchup.
Glad you haven't seen any ants around your place and hopefully the traps will keep working.
That's what they did. Still sounds like an easy enough job to do.
Sometimes you have to fix things when prices are good for the item needed. Hope the tariffs don't add too much to the cost of the gutters for you.
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Dry for today and tomorrow and Tuesday by the look of the things. Yay!
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Rain, rain and more rain today. And probably tomorrow. Have to toss another umbrella out.
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Stupid fog....
Had a pretty decent scare today. I've been so focused on this newish problem with my car that I forgot about how bad the old one could be when the day starts out with hours of rainy fog and my car has been outside all night.
My car wouldn't start. The battery and starter are fine, but it just wouldn't turn over. The car was kind of rocking back and forth when it finally got to the point of trying.
Being the car novice that I am, I really thought that this was it and the pistons were welded to the block. Stuck at work with 100 bucks of groceries in the car that is dead. Shit.
Called the insurance tow company and it was going to cost me 20 bucks for excessive miles to get it home. 1 to 3 hour wait. Finished my smoke and tried again. This time, I was pumping the gas quite a bit, not really caring if I flooded the engine since the tow was on its way.
Son of a bitch started.
Called up and cancelled the tow, went back out to my car, drove 3 feet and it died again. Shit.
Managed to start it pretty quickly a second time by giving it a lot of gas. Then it occurred to me that this was the old problem. I had to constantly keep my foot on the gas pedal when breaking until it "fixed" itself. Once I got it on the expressway I didn't have any more problems on the way home.
I'm so freakin done with this car. I need to find a cheap shit box that runs.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I like fog Jack. But then I don't drive and walking you have to be careful. We get some pretty heavy fogs on the Lower Mainland since we have a river and the Pacific ocean on our doorstep.
I will admit that I know pretty well nothing about cars and what little I do know you could probably fit on the head of a pin.
Was pouring with rain this morning but dry right now at 3:20 in the afternoon.
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More rain.
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I hate my seizure meds. Specially when one tries to get stuck in my throat. Takes some coughing, hitting my chest and lots of water to get it to move properly.
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That sucks. :(
I've started taking vitamins again for the first time in years. I forgot to take it with what I was eating and drinking, so I tried to dry swallow it last night. By the time I finally got it down I had that bitter taste because the thin coating had already melted away and I had to get a drink regardless.
I can't believe that back in my power lifting days I used to take these Amino Acid horse pills. They were about 6 times the size of a standard multi vitamin. I'm so not used to swallowing pills now that I can barely get a vitamin down.
I tried to find a picture so you could see what I'm talking about, but all I could find online was pictures of the bottles. I don't even know if they're that big anymore. They probably corrected that issue after 15 years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That sucks. :(
I've started taking vitamins again for the first time in years. I forgot to take it with what I was eating and drinking, so I tried to dry swallow it last night. By the time I finally got it down I had that bitter taste because the thin coating had already melted away and I had to get a drink regardless.
I can't believe that back in my power lifting days I used to take these Amino Acid horse pills. They were about 6 times the size of a standard multi vitamin. I'm so not used to swallowing pills now that I can barely get a vitamin down.
I tried to find a picture so you could see what I'm talking about, but all I could find online was pictures of the bottles. I don't even know if they're that big anymore. They probably corrected that issue after 15 years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It does suck as I have never been able to swallow pills. I take them with instant oatmeal as I have to take them with food. I must have had too much on the spoon and went to swallow with some water and stuck it got.
I've had some of coating come off my seizure meds and they taste gawdawful. So I try to be careful not to let them get wet.
These things I take are around the size of a multi-vitamin and 500mg. I take 3 in the morning and 3 at night.
I can't post any pictures of my seizure meds either for you. It's generic name is Keppra and if you look that up it will lead you to pictures of what I am taking.
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