BeachBaby
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:53 PM
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Goddamned biting flies won't leave me alone! |
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I HAVE HAVE HAVE to finish staining and painting my deck by Thursday, and these fuckers are biting me everywhere they can - even through my jeans, for Chrissakes!
I hosed myself down in 29% deet - but they don't care. They're out for blood - suggestions?
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Mon Sep-22-08 01:55 PM
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:scared:
I'm glad we barely have any bugs here.
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BeachBaby
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:00 PM
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Problem is, I don't feel them when they land on me - I only feel them when they bite.
They must die. :mad:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:01 PM
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3. try some incense or something like that to keep them |
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away with the smoke.
:pals:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:04 PM
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5. Hey woman! I've been thinking about you! |
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:hug:
Incense - would be worth the try if I didn't live on a farm - too windy here for it to make a difference.
Hope this week goes fast for you, so that you get YOUR house and life back together.
:hug: to little chickie MB too.
:loveya:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:07 PM
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:hug:
I just have to figure out how I am going to keep my house heated this winter :scared:
I heard the heating costs are going to go up 150% from last year and I could barely make it then (and I had another income).
BUT, I know I shall make it through this too. I am woman. Hear me roar.
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:10 PM
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7. I just called the oil company today. |
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Because unfortunately for me, I have oil heat.
Apparently I caught a break - this time last month, oil per gallon was $4.29. It's down to a reasonable $3.47 a gallon. :sarcasm:
This winter's gonna be a bitch, sista - but we'll get through it. :hug:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:16 PM
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9. glad you managed to secure a price that is |
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so cheap :sarcasm:
I remember when I had oil heat in my old farmhouse and it was .79 a gallon and it still cost a buttload to heat the place. I can't imagine what it would be like now.
I have a steam boiler but it is powered by natural gas. The two additions to the original 1890 house have electric heat but I am going to seal at least one of those rooms off for the winter. I will have to suck up watching Little MB's TV for the winter since the one that will be closed off is the "family room" and I am not unhooking all of the tv, etc., equipment to move it upstairs. We will be a 1 TV family for 5-6 months. Lord help me. I hate The Suite Life of Zack and Cody :puke:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:03 PM
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4. I wish I had a good suggestion. DEET is supposedly the best |
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You are just like me..that sweet blood of yours makes you irresistable... ;-)
Maybe a citronella candle lit will help?
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:21 PM
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11. Yeah, the deet is what I thought would do it, too. |
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I'm gonna shoot by the hardware store and see if they have stronger concentrations of it.
That's right, TZ! I forgot that you are witness to the bugs' incessant attacks on me.
God - I hate them. :(
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:14 PM
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8. Are you talking about those horse flies you get down the shore? |
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the type who's bite is like a kick by a mule?
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:17 PM
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Not greenheads either (the ones who rip chunks of skin when crabbing/fishing on the bay).
Not sure what kind they are - they look like your basic housefly but the welts all over me prove that they're not. :(
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:22 PM
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12. Sorry to hear that and I am glad they don't make their way up the Turnpike |
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Are they a problem all summer?
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:25 PM
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13. They seem to make their appearance from late August |
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until late September - but in DROVES. They're everywhere.
I don't think you have to worry about them - they just must be yet another facet to living on a farm. Lucky me. :sarcasm:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:26 PM
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14. Try cleaning your house for a change |
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:37 PM
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16. Dammit. Beat me to it. |
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:35 PM
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15. Biting you through your jeans????? |
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Can't say that I blame them (lucky bastards) :evilgrin:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:39 PM
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17. She is stripping, after all |
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:45 PM
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19. Well, instead of you sitting over there teasing me about it.... |
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you could be more proactive by helping me out here.
It wouldn't be difficult. You can just stand around, smoking a stogie while hosing me down in a perpetual mist of deet while I stain the deck, in the heat, in the sun, on my knees. Just a thought. :shrug: :evilgrin:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:48 PM
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21. Is this Heaven? No, it's JGD's deck! |
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Coulda fooled me. :P I'll be on my bunk. :hi:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:58 PM
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You don't even WANT to see me with a power sander. For your bunking experience.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTneO6UgRuM:P :loveya:
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:44 PM
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18. FLYSWATTER. flies panic when they see one of those. n/t |
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:01 PM
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25. Would seem to be the obvious thing to do, right? |
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But it's hard to do when staining a deck.
And there's literally hundreds of them - everywhere. It's unbelievable - and as soon as you swat at them, they come right back. They're relentless. And they're really starting to piss me off. :mad:
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:17 PM
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30. get some of those hanging strips that catches them. good luck. n/t |
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Mon Sep-22-08 02:45 PM
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20. I can't even walk to the mailbox |
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My problem is mosquitoes though. Never fails, I get bit on my elbows and my forehead.
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:05 PM
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28. Thankfully we're not dealing with a whole lot of them. |
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I'd be ready to shoot myself if I had to contend with them too.
:hi:
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:00 PM
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24. Where's the sympathy for MEEEE... |
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I got a couple of mosquito bites at the ball game the other night....Does no one want to put calamine lotion on them...:P :silly:
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:03 PM
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:spank:
Don't you worry sweetheart, you'll get to experience my own version of "Lord of the Flies" in a few days. :P
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:02 PM
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26. I could swat them away with my ponytail, if that would help. |
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:15 PM
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29. Is that you in your avatar? |
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You look like a bit of a badass; between that and the ponytail, you may be right - it could work! ;)
:hi:
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:23 PM
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31. That's me, right over there. |
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All the boys from South Toms River have ponytails.
To keep the flies of the girls from South Toms River. :rofl:
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:27 PM
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32. So you're a Jersey boy? |
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Great baseball in Toms River. I haven't been there in a long time, but it's a lovely place. :)
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:31 PM
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33. It got a little sprawly, traffic is bad now. |
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:33 PM
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34. Wrap yourself in tin foil... |
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Edited on Mon Sep-22-08 03:34 PM by philboy
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Mon Sep-22-08 03:35 PM
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35. Hell yeah--that will work! |
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Not only will it keep the flies away but it will protect her agaisnt those mind altering alien thought beams....:D
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