A good night's sleep, chocolate, the happiness and satisfaction of sharing on AgingCare forum. Does anyone have some favorite things to think about? Yes, this phrase is from the song in the movie "The sound of Music". My husband and I often resort to using movie lines and song to improve communication. We were the only two in a gathering of people who heard the background music playing. We both had the same (cassette tape/CD). A connection bringing two people together. To this day, we crack up when one uses a simple movie line to make a serious point.
SO, What is one of your favorite movie line, some of your favorite things?
My mum died in 2001 and I think about her a lot, and sometimes despair of the way I treated her and the way she treated me -- that haunts me, I think. My dad died in 1997, a true alcoholic to the end. I don't know why I'm even saying this except that it's three o'clock in the morning and I'm a bit lonely. But my kids are coming for Christmas so that's three of my favourite things right there! :)
Oh, my favorite things are books, books and books...
I forgot to mention -- I'm with you on the book thing -- now I see why your userid is bookluvr! I love cats and once had two named Jingles and Boots, hence my userid.
I had noticed occasionally a little bug on my kitchen counter but just killed it and moved on. Turns out it was baby cockroaches Yuck!
Hot chocolate after being outside in a blustery, windy day when the wind chills plunge down into the teens.
Waiting for gardening catalogues to start arriving right around Christmas.
Let it snow, baby...let it reindeer.
He's a straight shooter... when it comes to political correctness, disciplining children, etc... I rewatched it....
I think they could work for ants, but the ants would have to be channeled (rather, "tempted") onto the strips. My experience with ants is that they like to travel, all over, wherever they want to go in search of either water or food.
That's a good idea though. I think I'll try it by putting some water in a small tin or tuna fish can and let the ants get trapped on the sticky stuff. You could also make a trap of duct tape overlapped to create a solid border.
I've had ant problems periodically and have one now since the weather has been so warm. They also seem to come inside when the neighbor cuts branches and piles them up on the side of her yard, fairly close to the setback line of my property.
The best method I've found for eradicating ants is the mixture of 20 mule team borax (I think the invisible mules stomp on the ants), sugar and water. I can't find the specific proportions right now because McAfee is on holiday break and isn't advising which googled sites are safe (I don't visit any websites that aren't marked safe).
What I found worked best was to use 2 throw-away dishes, one with a borax and sugar "moat", with a smaller can or dish in the center, containing the water. The ants had to cross the moat in order to get to the water, tracking through the borax and taking it back to the nests.
I used it one day on the tiny kitchen ants. Put it out, next day there must have been 70 or 80 or more little tiny ants crawling around an area of about 14" by 14". Next day, even less. That was a few years ago and no little ants have been in that area since.
With ants, the only really effective answer is to trace and destroy the nest - if it's accessible, boiling water in large quantities and try not to think about karma; if it isn't, use powder on their main traffic routes - individuals track the poison back into the nest and it will eventually reach the queen, which is the key goal. Tricky if it's under the foundations, of course...
Keep it up - I'm in a much better mood just from having visualized your graphic descriptions!
That could certainly describe those miserable fire ants or whatever they're called that attack in formation and wipe out crops and whatever else is in their way.
Maybe they're the ones that trained the ISIS nuts.
And no, like Gershun I haven't been drinking, not watching bug spray commercials, but for some reason remembering some of more graphic horror movies over the years.
Time to read some more gardening magazines and get normal again.
get up, get out!
Breathe deep.
Me too, going now. Really, really I am.
Aired out the whole house with open windows, fans, central fan, for 30 minutes.
Has anyone read that the inside air can be more toxic than outdoors?
Ahhhhh.
CM: You can even by flypaper in new-fashioned hardware stores. Our local Canadian Tire has it.