In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Not at all! They need something solid to munch through as they create their tunnel-homes. Wood (or heavy-duty cardboard) is both food and home to them (with the cardboard being soft and pre-digested).
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SIX: Termites don't love sawdust, they love WOOD. Sawdust (and shavings) are an entirely different thing, as they are very light and fluffy and leaves them exposed to air, letting them dry out ....
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Not entirely unproductive at this end. I spent some quality-time with our sometime gardener, pulling weeds. Then hearing that he had a bead on a temporary job IF he had a stand-up forklift cert, I drove him to the company that does the certs (which he got) and can only hope that it isn't just one more company with its hand out asking for a fee, and actually gets him a job driving a forklift!
Got the weed torch today, am going to have to get the propane and a few other sprinkler system items tomorrow. The weed-pulling was to remove the weeds from around my permanent plants so the torch doesn't burn them, too!
I had a strainer full of crap that I couldn't scrub out so I decided to put it in my oven (which also needed cleaning) and start the self-cleaning mode. It's amazing what heat can do! Have a lot of legal stuff to attend to, plus I STILL have to fully put away the Xmas decorations! (At least they're in a box!)
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Well, it looks like including the forecast, the first 3 weeks of February are going to be a bust for rain.
Quote:Do you have any pull with any of the gods/ spirits/ whatevers that might arrange a transfer of your rain to here? I seem to be persona non grata with it/ them at the moment.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wish I could help as we are heading into more rain up here.
I would have to do a look up at what gods or spirits were responsible for rain around here.
Think my own ancestors knew how to call for it aka rain dance. That was just generally directed at the universe.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX: Termites don't love sawdust, they love WOOD. Sawdust (and shavings) are an entirely different thing, as they are very light and fluffy and leaves them exposed to air, letting them dry out ....
Yeah. That makes sense.
Unlike carpenter ants who only burrow their tunnels in compromised and/or wet wood, termites will eat any wood. But yeah... I forgot that they don't like the sun.
Not all varieties are subterranean though, at least that's what I think I read when I was researching what was doing the damage to my house. As long as you've done your research, don't listen to me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Greeeeeeeeaaaat.....
I think I may have developed an allergy to Amoxicillin in my old age.
I had just about finished off my prescription last night, and not 5 minutes after taking a pill I started having a very uncomfortable itch. Mostly concentrated around my waistband at the time, but on my arms as well. An hour later, I had bumps everywhere. I took a shower and lotioned everything up afterward. I got about 5 hours sleep and woke up to find that they're basically out of control at this point. The ones on my lower stomach and along my waistband are so bad they've basically all melded together into a giant blob.
I'm not experiencing any other symptoms that are considered something to worry about, so here's hoping they clear up in a day or two and that they don't start taking over my face in the mean time. They're up around my neck and under my chin too, but at least at the time of writing this I still haven't seen any evidence of it on my face yet.
I'd love to just sleep it off, but man do they itch something fierce right now. I feel like I did when I had chickenpox as a kid. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Been there, done that!
I'm wondering if you've ever had hives before, and if these are exactly like them.
My hives were due to skin contact with something I was allergic to (orange juice - long story) and they appeared immediately. They later spread out from areas of contact to everywhere. After a couple of days of them getting worse, I eventually took benadryl (diphenhydramine) to quell the itching so I could sleep, but 4 hours later when its blood levels dropped too low my tongue swelled up. That was the trigger for me getting allergy tested. Anyway, it sounds like it's hives ... and brought on by the antibiotic ... but maybe not.
Here's a link about amoxicillin rash ... there are 2 different kinds!
https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/amoxicillin-rash#TOC_TITLE
_HDR_1
And here's a link about drug-induced rashes in general ...
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/drug-allergy/symptoms-c
auses/syc-20371835
... and a picture.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/penicillin-allergy/mult
imedia/drug-rash/img-20006121
I've also had a major photosensitivity reaction to the sap of a plant I was removing + sunlight that seemed like hives, but it wasn't. That required oral steroids to clear.
I've also had weird skin reactions to various antibiotics and the zovirax (that would have helped with the shingles) that weren't hives - that didn't show up until after a few days. The doctors went ???! and told me to not take those medicines again
They were
a weird puffy purple rash
a rash of very fine red spots on my forearm, stomach, and inner legs only
a rash of petechiae which are red or purple small dots (like made by a fine sharpie marker) made by broken capillaries
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4 days... eech. :(
Mine don't sound like yours do. I was almost done with my prescription and only had a few pills left so I'm not going to take them after the reaction last night.
I made that post after getting about 5 hours of sleep. It took me a while, and I really don't know how I managed it, but I was able to get back to sleep after a few hours and by the time I woke up the situation is a lot better. There's no itching on the scalp at all anymore. I still have some pretty bad itchy areas on my forearms and calves, although most of the raised areas are gone and a lot of the discoloration has gone away. The waistband area still looks pretty bad though, but I guess that's to be expected since it looked absolutely horrifying when I first saw it and it wasn't until I was sure that it was hives that I wasn't freaking out. It's still very large down there and now it's very red.. but the raised surfaces seem to have more or less evened out.
Contrary to popular belief, at least from the research that I did on hives, not only aren't they contagious, but nothing you can do can make them "spread". It just seems that way because a lot of people who get them can have them for up to 4 to 6 weeks, and since hives usually resolve themselves withint 24 hours if they're popping up elsewhere it gives the illusion that you're spreading them by contact.
Hopefully I don't get any new ones. I know that for the first 12 hours new stuff was popping up, but it now appears that while the old ones are going away they're not being replaced with many new ones to speak of.
And they haven't gotten on my face yet. *knock on wood* 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah... well it's definitely hives from the behavior. Unfortunately, it either isn't the Amox that caused it and I'm getting them for some other reason, or I'm still reacting to it 24 hours after I took my last one.
Ate early and went to sleep, hoping that it would be a memory when I woke up, but they're back with a bit of a vengeance right now. They're not as bad overall as they were last night around this time where they've popped up anew, at least in the looks department, but boy... they seem to itch about 10 times as bad as the ones I had yesterday.
They seem to have hit almost entirely different areas of my body this time. The initial monster around my waistband is mostly gone now except for a reddish residue where it was, and if it still itches I can't feel it at all over the itchiness of the new batch. Except for some new ones on my forearms by the wrists, my arms, armpits and calves are basically free of them this time. They're almost gone on my back now too. But my thighs are terrible, and it's quite bad between my shoulder blades, neck and chin area. I can tell I have a bit under my beard as well, although it still hasn't gone to any part of my face where hair doesn't grow.
I hope I was right and it was the Amox and it's not a symptom of something larger. I'm still no showing any other symptoms that would require me to seek immediate attention like fever, nausea, loss of appetite or swelling in the mouth.
God help me if it's an allergic reaction to the dentures themselves. Especially after the money I spent on them.... :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah... well it's definitely hives from the behavior. Unfortunately, it either isn't the Amox that caused it and I'm getting them for some other reason, or I'm still reacting to it 24 hours after I took my last one.
Ate early and went to sleep, hoping that it would be a memory when I woke up, but they're back with a bit of a vengeance right now. They're not as bad overall as they were last night around this time where they've popped up anew, at least in the looks department, but boy... they seem to itch about 10 times as bad as the ones I had yesterday.
They seem to have hit almost entirely different areas of my body this time. The initial monster around my waistband is mostly gone now except for a reddish residue where it was, and if it still itches I can't feel it at all over the itchiness of the new batch. Except for some new ones on my forearms by the wrists, my arms, armpits and calves are basically free of them this time. They're almost gone on my back now too. But my thighs are terrible, and it's quite bad between my shoulder blades, neck and chin area. I can tell I have a bit under my beard as well, although it still hasn't gone to any part of my face where hair doesn't grow.
I hope I was right and it was the Amox and it's not a symptom of something larger. I'm still no showing any other symptoms that would require me to seek immediate attention like fever, nausea, loss of appetite or swelling in the mouth.
God help me if it's an allergic reaction to the dentures themselves. Especially after the money I spent on them.... :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
You might need an allergy test.
My brother went through a full poke test after his face swelled up from eating peanuts over 10years ago. They discovered that he is allergic to corn, garlic, onions, peanuts of course. Fish oils that I can tolerate are bad for him.
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