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Mon, 10 August 2009 19:48  |
 b_twin_1
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Mind boggling
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19289 is a reply to message #19288 ] |
Mon, 10 August 2009 20:26  |
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I completely concur.* It would be nice to have additional books/short stories about Sunshine or Damar**. However, I would rather live with not knowing and dream up my own thoughts and ideas, than have an unfinished amalgamation to sift through. (Tolkien's posthumous works come to mind. Some are lovely, others are not.)
*With not recording your thoughts to be published posthumously^.
^Which would be, of course, in the distant distant distant inconcievable future.
**Please note: I am NOT asking for a sequel or in any other way attempting to irk the beloved author...I am merely pre-acknowledging the gratitude that will overflow if one is ever forthcoming.
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19291 is a reply to message #19287 ] |
Mon, 10 August 2009 20:36 |
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Ugh ... sounds like a baaaad day.
Rat Zapper ... a discrete blue box with batteries which electrocutes rodents without muss or fuss. A little red light flashes when you've caught something (so far rats, mice, and a chipmunk) and you just dump it in the trash. Instant and humane ... and you bait it with cat or dog kibble. I got mine at the local hardware store ... I see the feed and grain has them and on line thru Farm Tek.
I recently read a hint on keeping cats from digging in your garden. They suggest you leave the clippings from pruning your rose bushes in the mulch. The paws make contact with the thorns and supposedly no more digging. At least its cheap and biodegradable, no carbon footprint to speak of.
Hoping that as I write this you are getting a good night's sleep, and that the hellhounds are quietly and thoroughly digesting whatever they decided to eat.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19293 is a reply to message #19287 ] |
Mon, 10 August 2009 20:59 |
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The gall of some people (demanding posthumous tidbits to fill out the corners of their empty minds) and the stupidity of others (feeding RATS???) would be beyond belief if I hadn't lived this long and seen amazing demonstrations of both, up close and personal. And then the canines adding their own contributions to the day's S-wordiness.
It's amazing how sometimes, when the day is going downhill on greased skids, the writing perks up and says "Oh, by the way, here's plotstuff and progress..." I'm very glad that this was one of those days and join in the flinging of virtual chocolate.
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19294 is a reply to message #19287 ] |
Mon, 10 August 2009 21:01 |
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There are NO WORDS for that email, so I will leave it at ellipses.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19297 is a reply to message #19295 ] |
Mon, 10 August 2009 21:21 |
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| Ithilien wrote on Mon, 10 August 2009 21:10 |
If you'll just quietly pass me the idiot's details, I'll go arrange for a nice whack with a clue-by-four...
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i have won award for batting in soft ball,can i go with you.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19311 is a reply to message #19303 ] |
Tue, 11 August 2009 01:57 |
b_twin_1
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| baybelletrist wrote on Mon, 10 August 2009 23:09 |
one of the neighbours has been feeding the frellers
I . . . look, I know it's probably far too girly or something, but on reading this I honest-to-gods flapped my hands in a restrained flail and said GAAAAH.
As for the e-mail:
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*headdesk*
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Well said.
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19313 is a reply to message #19309 ] |
Tue, 11 August 2009 03:55 |
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| Fake Frenchie wrote on Tue, 11 August 2009 06:54 |
"‡ And the answer, just so that we can be perfectly clear about this, is no."
I missed the question. I did look for it.
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I think this might be the answer to the e-mail question.
If the cats are like the ones that visit my garden, then they use the lawn not the flower beds. I have to inspect each time before mowing.
I have a friend who has one of those automated water squirters if you have an outdoor tap to attach it to. http://www.deteracat.co.uk/scarecrow_water_jet_pack.htm
(I like that fact that the company says that if you email them a question during the day and they don't get back to you within 2 hours then they'll send you a large free bar of chocolate.)
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19314 is a reply to message #19287 ] |
Tue, 11 August 2009 04:43 |
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Diane in MN
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I commiserate with you over the hellhounds' digestive difficulties. Aaargh. I shouldn't say this, no doubt it's a jinx, but I believe I've been making some progress with Ted's mushy output by adding fiber (inulin) to his food. He is compensating for this by going OFF his food. Is this because he doesn't like the current offerings? Because something in the kitchen freaks him out? Because he's 13 months old? Who knows? Maybe it's because I've recently spent $140 in entry fees for four dog shows, and if he stops eating he can get skinny and REALLY have no chance to win. Since I don't want to encourage him to be a Bad Eater, my response is "eat it or go hungry"--and when he's really hungry, it disappears--but tossing dog food into the trash gets old fast.
What he does want to get his mouth on is toads. We must have had a good toad hatch this summer because the lawn is full of tiny little inch-long toadlets. They hop, Ted pounces, if he hits one it's flattened, and I start yelling "No! Leave it!". If they made dog food flavored like toads and rabbit droppings, I'd be home free.
one of the neighbours has been feeding the frellers.
He (or she) must now be looking out for the angry mob armed with garden implements . . .
I hope the cooperation from PEGASUS (yay!) cancels out the mind-boggling e-mail. Where do people find the nerve to send stuff like that? ::headdesk::
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19322 is a reply to message #19314 ] |
Tue, 11 August 2009 14:59 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Tue, 11 August 2009 04:43 |
What he does want to get his mouth on is toads. We must have had a good toad hatch this summer because the lawn is full of tiny little inch-long toadlets. They hop, Ted pounces, if he hits one it's flattened, and I start yelling "No! Leave it!". If they made dog food flavored like toads and rabbit droppings, I'd be home free.
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Teddy eats toads?! Otis tried that once and spent the next five minutes trying to spit what I understand to be (never having tasted a toad, myself) the horrid, horrid toad-taste out of his mouth. I can't be too smug, though,-Otis used to eat mud.
I second and third everything said about the posthumous collection-with a big *Glaaargh!* thrown in for the sheer horror of the thought- it's like wishful thinking from a prospective grave-robber. Who says these things, much less writes them down and actually sends them to the insulted party?
I am also sorry to hear about the rats-with three cats, I've never had much of a problem with rodents, but there was a very unpleasant mouse-massacre one night after the upstairs neighbors moved out-it was awful, especially since baby deer mice are so cute-before they get mangled, that is. At least they were really small-I can only imagine the ickiness of dealing with something as substantial as a rat-(I had a pet one in high school, too, so I have a bit of a soft spot, but I would flip if I had to deal with an infestation).
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19324 is a reply to message #19314 ] |
Tue, 11 August 2009 15:22 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Tue, 11 August 2009 04:43 |
If they made dog food flavored like toads and rabbit droppings, I'd be home free.
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Surely if they make booger and vomit flavored jelly beans they can make toad and poo flavored kibble!
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19342 is a reply to message #19325 ] |
Tue, 11 August 2009 21:04 |
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Right, even in Southern Vermont holly only gets as high as it can grow in a single season ... starting from whatever the minimum snow depth was the previous winter.
Although folks who live in town may succeed if the holly is sheltered. We have one Church member who shows up with a tarp full of trimmings when we do our big wreath making marathon for the holidays. It's quite impressive, if painful, to make a whole wreath of just holly! Most of us are satisfied just to use enough to spruce up the balsam wreathes (bad pun, I know). We gather small treefulls of balsam and do 70 -80 wreathes decorated with pretty much local materials.
However I think I have been inspired for a new defense against the leaping and dancing of the dog next door ... I'll plant more roses ... maybe a whole hedge, of the ones with big thorns ... rugosas around the more delicate plants.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19348 is a reply to message #19322 ] |
Wed, 12 August 2009 01:15 |
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Diane in MN
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| stormgoddess wrote on Tue, 11 August 2009 13:59 |
Teddy eats toads?! Otis tried that once and spent the next five minutes trying to spit what I understand to be (never having tasted a toad, myself) the horrid, horrid toad-taste out of his mouth. I can't be too smug, though,-Otis used to eat mud.
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I don't think he's actually ever eaten one, but he wants them big time and if he were left out alone when they were active, he'd probably manage to get a mouthful of slime, at least. All toads exude a very unpleasant slime when threatened, but some are seriously poisonous, and I don't want to find out what kind(s) we have around here.
Some mud is very attractive to dogs. When we first moved in, the sod in the back yard had just been laid down and hadn't rooted. (The builder's landscaper was, of course, behind schedule.) I had two big 18-month-old Dane puppies, who found that pieces of sod could be lifted and dragged and made wonderful tug-of-war toys. The boy, Tarzo, also found the black dirt (topsoil)of the sod pieces absolutely delicious and ate quite a lot of it before coming in and throwing it up on top of my extremely new carpet. The stain-release feature of that carpet got a pretty good test.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19351 is a reply to message #19348 ] |
Wed, 12 August 2009 01:38 |
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The boy, Tarzo, also found the black dirt (topsoil)of the sod pieces absolutely delicious and ate quite a lot of it before coming in and throwing it up on top of my extremely new carpet. The stain-release feature of that carpet got a pretty good test.
*dies laughing*
I'm sorry, it's really not very nice of me to laugh. I hope you can at least laugh in retrospect?
Also, I told my husband about your story, laughing hysterically, and he said, "It still doesn't beat Meat House."
Ah yes, the Meat House story. That's our family name for the Dogs in Elk story.
You've never read it, you say? Here you go. It's well worth it. Don't worry, I'll wait. 
The first time I came across that story, I read it to my husband. I could hardly talk, I was laughing so hard. And he, laughing just as hard, started saying "MEAT HOUSE," this being, you should understand, what the dogs would have been saying if they could speak English.
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19353 is a reply to message #19351 ] |
Wed, 12 August 2009 01:51 |
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Diane in MN
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Well, the carpet did not stay stained black and the dog didn't get really sick, and I figured out some things to do about the sod, so yeah, it turned into a funny story pretty fast. And I had to laugh at Tarzo and Pumpkin playing tug with a piece of sod that must have weighed 25 pounds . . .
Yes, I have read the Dogs in Elk story, and it does beat mine. Have you read the dog and sweet potato story? I have that one bookmarked for when I need a good laugh. I don't remember which wonderful forum person posted this a long time ago, but I remain deeply grateful.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19379 is a reply to message #19350 ] |
Wed, 12 August 2009 19:50 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Wed, 12 August 2009 01:30 |
| Robin wrote on Tue, 11 August 2009 15:35 |
Sigh. I USED to be an eat-it-or-go-hungry dog person--as a result of having wasted a lot of valuable time HAND FEEDING my boss' spoilt Alsatian when I was a teen ager. NOne of MY dogs will ever . . . And then I got involved in a SERIES of dogs so demented that they'd rather get sick/sicker than risk the food nonsense. SIGH.
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I'm much more of an absolutist in word than in deed. A healthy dog might not let itself starve to death, but it can sure let itself not eat much. But I know what skillful manipulators they are and how good at yanking peoples' chains they can be, too, so I try not to go too far with the bribes. And tonight he ate everything with enthusiasm--the same stuff he wouldn't look at last night. Go figure.
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It's all such a BALANCING act. Chaos is the crazier, more reactive one, but he's also temperamentally more straightforward. Darkness' gut is objectively as bad, but it doesn't *bother* him as much . . . but he's the more manipulative one. But if Darkness doesn't eat, Chaos won't either . . .
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19406 is a reply to message #19382 ] |
Wed, 12 August 2009 23:38 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 12 August 2009 19:58 |
Dog and Sweet Potato is the one *I* reread when I need a laugh. And I've posted it two or three times! Someone way back on the old lj Days in the Life posted it there. I don't remember who, or if she's on this forum.
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Oh, my goodness! How could I have forgotten Dog and Sweet Potato? Way too funny. (And how *did* the dog find those sweet potatoes?)
[Updated on: Wed, 12 August 2009 23:39]
"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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| Re: Mind boggling [message #19407 is a reply to message #19312 ] |
Wed, 12 August 2009 23:52 |
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| L.R.K. wrote on Tue, 11 August 2009 02:04 |
Is it just me - or does it sound like you're offered relief from posthumous bugging?!
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Speaking of posthumous bugging, it occurred to me the other day that I may have been reading too much fantasy. I happened to be standing in the living room of a house occupied by, among other people, a doctor. Naturally, my eyes were drawn to the bookshelf during the course of the evening. Imagine my surprise when my brain processed one thick textbook's title as "Necromancy".*
Or maybe it was too much wine... I don't think it's actually possible to read too much fantasy.
* It was actually "Neuroanatomy".
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