Subj : Climb It Change was:Cross [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Sat Nov 23 2024 13:41:36 Hi Dave, RH> We've got lots of squirrels. The deer are there but we don't see them RH> that often. The town keeps clearing out their habitats to build more RH> and more housing so it sort of surprises me that we don't see more than RH> an occaisional one. DD> Tree rats are like mice - they breed quickly and often. I'm fighting a DD> battle with mice right now. I discovered their entry point and got DD> that sealed off. Traps and D-Con baits are thinning their numbers. But DD> Mickey and Minnie are stiil with me. Fortunately the dogs don't eat DD> mice so I DD> don't have to worry about second hand poisoning one of them. We've only had a mouse problem once. When we were in HI, we had an inside unit of a 4-plex. The outside neighbors let their back yard grow out of control and mice moved in. When the neighbors packed out, the doors were open and shut quite a bit, allowing mice access to the housing unit. I'm not sure how they got into our place but we ended up dispatching 3 or 4 to quickly solve the problem. Their back yard was cut, finally, just before they left HI. DD> Deer seem to adapt to urban living. I remember a picnic at the late DD> Dale Shipp's place in Columbia, MD and watching a doe and her fawn DD> grazing in Gail's flower beds. We've seen quite a few in WF, including an albino one, but not that many in the last few years. Steve did see a couple a few weeks ago cross the street just below our house but they were gone before he could let me know. DD> 8<----- JUMP SHIFT ----->8 DD> intending to do just that but got sidetracked then forgot about it. DD> Senior moment. RH> Seems like we're all getting more and more of those. (G) DD> They're called senior moments. THey can be disconcerting when you're DD> in a conversation and can't remember a name that is *very* familiar to DD> you. Or a location. Then 30 secoonds later it pops, unbidden to the DD> foreground of your toughts and conversation. Bv)= Or when you're on DD> your way home. I know the feeling all too well. DD> 8<----- CLIP ----->8 RH> Count up how many pairs of scissors/shears you have for normal RH> household/shop use; you might be surprised at the total. Some years ago RH> go thru them. I found another pair of scissors but didn't tell him. (G) DD> One big "tin snip", one set of kitchen shears (big scissors), a beard DD> trim scissors in the bathroom and four scissors from 6" length to 10". DD> Not to mention an old (and unused big pinking shears that I inherited DD> from my mum. RH> I've got my grandma Weiss's sewing scissors; Mom had them but Dad told RH> me to take them when Mom went into the nursing home. DD> Weiss is the brand on the pinking shears. The other scissors are DD> newish enouogh the they're probably from the land of dim sum and pork DD> fried rice. You sure it's Weiss, not Wiss? The latter is a known name in scissors/shears manufacturing. Saw your shrimp recipies. Last night we made a shrimp, pepper, onion, tomato and garlic stir fry from a Junior League of Rocky Mount cook book I'd picked up some time ago. Directions were to serve it over angel hair pasta but we subbed soba (buckwheat) noodles. It's something we will do again. DD> One reason to raise your own tomatoes: DD> Title: Green Tomato Pie DD> Categories: Pies, Pastry, RH> Fruits, Citrus DD> Yield: 6 Servings RH> Looks interesting, might try it next year. DD> In normal years my 'mters produce right up to frost time. But the last DD> few years we've not had a killing frost until sometime in December. DD> errrrmmmm .... Ground Control to Donald Trump - That's climate change! RH> I think we had our killing frost a couple of weeks ago. DD> We've just had the one which signaled the grass on the front lawn it DD> was time to sleep until spring. And prompted the big maple to begin DD> shedding. One more trip round the yard with the mower to mulch the DD> fallen leaves - then we're done for the year. DD> Just looked at the 10 Day Forecast on my Weather Bug. Supposed to get DD> down to 31ºF Friday night the back to the low 40s at night thru DD> Turkey Day weekend. My phone told me when I plugged it into the DD> charger that DD> snow will start here in 30 minutes (05:30) but the outside temp is DD> currently 34ºF - so it will just be messy and won't stick. (I hope) Steve is outside working on our leaves again. He ran a mulching cycle with the mower a couple of weeks ago but I hear the blower now. Still have some on the trees, but probably not enough to worry about at this stage. DD> This year we've had one frost - just enough to tell the grass in the DD> yard that it's time to stop growing and take a nap. Yesterday we had DD> rain all day. I had a customer (for wiper blades) at the Zone who was DD> crying about all the rain so I asked him what month we were in. Then DD> said "Think what that could be." Followed by "We've got a cart right DD> over there with ice scrapers, snow brushes, collapsible shovels and DD> ice melt for your sidewalks." I didn't tell him that AFAIK we've not DD> made a sale other than starting fluid from that display this year. RH> Give them a few weeks and the cart will empty out fast, every day. (G) DD> At least the AutoZone merchandisers hope so. I told my manager we DD> ought to stock umbrellas, too. DD> This was supper last night - promoting it from "archives" to DD> DD> "kitchen". It's a keeper. And Jasper (the big dog) liked helping DD> clean the baking DD> vessel. Bv)= DD> Title: 3-Ingredient Lemon Chicken >> CONTINUED IN NEXT MESSAGE << --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... I DID Read The Docs! Honest! 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