Well, I've only had the lights up a few days and the rabbits have already trashed a string. 
Guess I'll have to get my pellet rifle out.
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Glad to see someone other than just me is having critters chewing up their wiring! LOL, but not really funny. Some mothballs where the wiring is low or this type spray "Deer and Rabbit Repellent" would probably do the job for keeping rabbits away.
Going to try and replace the 12'x20' canopy top today where my wife parks her Jeep since the old one leaks and is worn out. Lots of fun since it's cold which makes the poly hard to work with. Once done I'll put blue rope lighting around the frame which looks real pretty/Christmasy. 
Uniblurb3 wrote:Glad to see someone other than just me is having critters chewing up their wiring! LOL, but not really funny. Some mothballs where the wiring is low or this type spray "Deer and Rabbit Repellent" would probably do the job for keeping rabbits away.
Going to try and replace the 12'x20' canopy top today where my wife parks her Jeep since the old one leaks and is worn out. Lots of fun since it's cold which makes the poly hard to work with. Once done I'll put blue rope lighting around the frame which looks real pretty/Christmasy.
Ya, they did it to me last year too. I guess I could just take the GFI out of the line and leave them on all night. 
I have to buy mothballs or repellent, I already have the gun and pellets.
What really ticks me off is, they can't just bite through a wire. They bite through all three or four wires and then go up about 3-4 inches and bite through again just to make sure.
The little varmints don't even eat it, they leave all the little pieces of wire right there.
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Computer-Joe wrote:
Uniblurb3 wrote:
Glad to see someone other than just me is having critters chewing up their wiring! LOL, but not really funny. Some mothballs where the wiring is low or this type spray "Deer and Rabbit Repellent" would probably do the job for keeping rabbits away.
Going to try and replace the 12'x20' canopy top today where my wife parks her Jeep since the old one leaks and is worn out. Lots of fun since it's cold which makes the poly hard to work with. Once done I'll put blue rope lighting around the frame which looks real pretty/Christmasy.
Ya, they did it to me last year too. I guess I could just take the GFI out of the line and leave them on all night.
I have to buy mothballs or repellent, I already have the gun and pellets.
What really ticks me off is, they can't just bite through a wire. They bite through all three or four wires and then go up about 3-4 inches and bite through again just to make sure.
The little varmints don't even eat it, they leave all the little pieces of wire right there.
I remember when we tried to establish an "Old World" variety orchard at the park I used to work at. We had to put chicken wire cages around all the small apple trees or the rabbits would girdle the bases of the trees at ground level by chewing a ring of bark off. These were real expensive grafted late-1800's variety apple trees which took a lot of work to plant. They love to do this during the winter even under the deep snow.
Squirrels and groundhogs are even worse where they do eat the copper and plastic wire along with vacuum lines on my Jeeps. Plus squirrels like to insulate their dens with the underhood fiberglass insulation which is chewed up/half gone. Hope they have some real itchy dens!!
Here we are......moving into another weekend. It's raining. Cold to follow.
GOOD NEWS! My neighbor's tiny Yorkshire Terrier puppy was found later in the same day she disappeared. She had wandered across the street and went into the backyard of a house. Guess she got cold because he found her curled up on their concrete patio....behind the BBQ grill.....right beneath the clothes dryer vent which was belching nice warm air down on her. Wish I had known about her recovery earlier because I've been fretting about it all week. This afternoon I took Alfie out to empty his holding tank and the neighbor had the pup out in their yard. She spotted Alfie and came bouncing pell mell over to our yard to play with him. He's good with her but still doesn't really know what to think about that tiny, 10 week old, ball of fluff that keeps wanting to crawl up on his head and neck. It is hilarious to watch them play.
I'm not going to be around here much for a couple of weeks or more. Busy getting ready for a trip we've been planning and saving for these past several years. We have traveled in 49 states. But I could never figure out how to make the motorhome float so never got to Hawaii......until now. Not taking my laptop. Don't want to have to fool with any more baggage than I have to. Just taking my underwear, pants and shirts and my camera......and, oh yeah.....my wife.
Glad the puppy was found!
That sounds like a fun trip--I know we've got a few here who can give HI travel advice. Stop in and feed the feral cats that Uni found.
Don't blame you about flying, why I never go anywhere. 
If we don't see you before the holidays, Merry Christmas! Bring back some underwater photos for us, and have a safe trip.
Real glad they found the Yorkie puppy Phil and hope it taught your neighbors a lesson to keep a better eye open.
Wow, envious about your Hawaiian trip and you'll love it! Honolulu was a little too commercialized/pricey for me but there is a lot to see on Oahu. I could have spent more than a day at Pearl Harbor and it was something I will never forget. The Air Force museum next door is also worth taking in.
Don't blame you for not taking your laptop but I used mine to download/organize my pictures every night. But this may have been more important since we jumped between 3 different islands and hard for me to keep track of all the sites/places we went. If you don't like flying you probably wouldn't like the smaller planes that take you between the islands. Didn't bother me but neither does any flying. Kind of strange since I'm scared of heights.
Have a great and safe trip!
PS. You won't have a hard time finding stray cats Spd was talking about. Or the mongooses that are everywhere. I didn't even know what they were at first but did recognize them as a type of weasel.
Escapee wrote:C-joe when do we eat. With a little work I can bring several little pigs that have gray fur and long bushy tails. A few of them are have problems getting through the chain link fence these days.
I opened the door to a adsl cabinet and saw three lizards trying to get a little warmth outside the rubber door seal. One had his mouth wide open. It may have been frozen that way. He did not change shape when I scraped him off to keep from hurting him when I closed the door.
Yup, both Bugs and Rocky joined me for dinner quite often back when I was living in Texas and Virginia.
Plenty of fat squirrels here in N. IL. Would be easy pickin's, but I don't think the wife would apreciate the skins hanging on side of the garage anymore.
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G'morning. Another gorgeous Missouri, winter morning......cold, cloudy and breezy. Alfie loves it. Wonder if his toes get cold. My heavy, leather, lined gloves are no help at my advanced age. My hands still are frozen by the time we get home from our morning walk. At least his walks are quite brisk when the air is cold. Westies are definitely cold weather dogs. Saw a few deer this morning. He just stood at attention and stared at them. I really can't recall if Alfie has ever seen deer before. We have a creek and woods with grassy land adjacent to it just one block north of our place. So THAT is why I always use a leash on my dog......one never knows what form of wild life we'll see.......even an occasional AT&T service man taking a nap in his truck. Oooooo.....slap my mouth.
D'ya all like "zingers". I do.....especially the really good ones that cut right to the quick. A friend of mine sent me a few great ones which I'd like to share with you:
These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.
· A member of Parliament said to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
· "That depends, Sir," replied Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
· "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
· "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
· "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow
· "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
· "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas
· "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain (Sam Clemens)
· "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." - Oscar Wilde
·George Bernard Shaw once said to Winston Churchill, "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." -
· "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second .... if there is one." - retorted Churchill.
· "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop
· "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
· "I've just learned about his illness.. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb
· "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson
· "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating
· "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand
· "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
· "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
· "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West
· "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
· "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
· "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
· "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
Real funny Phil, especially many of them when you see the speaker of the quote.
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain (Sam Clemens)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
Some of the better ones IMHO. 
Edit: Phil, have a great time in Hawaii.
Chris
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I was sitting in the eye doc's office today for just a check up and was looking at the beautiful photos in Discover Magazine. The one below really struck me (pun) and as if the power of a volcano erupting isn't awesome enough, combine it with lightening in the plume!
This may not be the exact photo I saw but it's by the same photographer, Francisco Negroni, Associated Press. This is a photo of the Puyehue volcano in Chile which erupted in early June of this year.
Here's an explanation of what causes lightening in a volcanic cloud but it stills remains a mystery.
Lightening, my old friend.
LOL! That movie *hit* too close to home! 
Well, I gave my wife the "Gifts for Men" list from the last WOTT, so she made this for me.
A wall-quilt for my garage/shop/man-cave.
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Wow~she's really talented! And guess that means the cave has been accepted? Further improvements will be coming?
Wow, that's fantastic CJ! She sure has a gift and is a real artist when it comes to quilt making.
I can really relate to the theme and you best not get that quilt dirty/dusty in your "garage/shop/man-cave".
spd2demun wrote:Wow~she's really talented! And guess that means the cave has been accepted? Further improvements will be coming?
Accepted? I guess so. I've accepted it as my "fortess of solitude" and she's accepted it as my "island of St. Helena".
You can see more of her work here, although the sites have not been updated for about 5 years. http://www.sewnicequilting.com/page5.html
She cranks out about 40-50 a year. I'll have to get some pics up of her shop, which is in the basement (which is why I get stuck with the garage).
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