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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Fri Jun 13th, 2008 11:12 am |
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Light rains started around 1 a.m. lasting on and off until about 5:30. The electricity failed about 2:30, leaving still, hot air when the fans stopped (funny how that works), coming on about 5:30. Omens and portents abound. Either I'm having a seriously bad case of cabin fever, or it's been a weird week or both
Old Taino proverb: When crested blue heron walks in the sky, rain is sure to follow himAttachment: A sign.jpg (Downloaded 107 times)
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Posted: Fri Jun 13th, 2008 11:31 am |
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OMG!!! What a picture, and I so see it.....may proverbs come true!!!
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Posted: Fri Jun 13th, 2008 12:16 pm |
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| Awesome shot MJ. May the rain follow closely (and then send it up here!)
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Posted: Fri Jun 13th, 2008 02:08 pm |
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Y'all can have some of ours...here come the floods again. I've already cleaned up my river property twice this spring. 
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Posted: Fri Jun 13th, 2008 02:15 pm |
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i saw that on the news.....I'm soooo sorry!!! Bike Dude's mother is NW (i'm sure he'll correct me on this -- but he was always the direction guy between the two of us) of Chicago, and she reports that everytime it rains now, she's got to run home to drain her basement out....
you can send some our way as well -- I'm having to water 2 times a day.....we've had 2 days of rain since April. and to add insult to injury, all the mosquito and black fly larvae is hatching all at once when it does rain, making Admin's body full of bleeding welts. life in the north country.....
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Posted: Fri Jun 13th, 2008 03:04 pm |
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Wifey purchased a new kind of mosquito control item which seems to be working. It is a bucket with perforations into which you mix some enzymes that mimic mosquito breeding smells. It evidently traps them or sterilizes them or something. We hung it from a tree limb above the intermittent creek in our back yard, where we suspect they hang out and breed, and, so far, the usual clouds of skeeters have not materialized. The instructions say to replace the mixture when it gets "rank", which is probably soon, tho' I haven't smelled a thing yet.
I'll post the particulars this week-end, after I find out what it's called, where she got it, and how much. It'd be cool to find out there is an effective way to control the little devils without spraying poison or breathing nauseating Off or citronella fumes.
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Posted: Fri Jun 13th, 2008 03:20 pm |
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i'll try anything at this point -- I'm in the woods, and I just can't be outside without my bee keepers hat on.....
I have one of the SkeeterVacs, which runs off propane, which traps an amazing amount, but not enough!!!! The Think Green side of me kinda disappears when it comes to late spring, early summer in Maine.
anyone out there find a Deet-free bug spray yet that works as well as the scary chemicals?
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Posted: Sat Jun 14th, 2008 02:46 pm |
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there is a citrus based spray without deet that I've heard works, lemme google it some..
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Posted: Sat Jun 14th, 2008 03:43 pm |
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bring it on Monkey Boy!
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Posted: Sun Jun 15th, 2008 03:04 am |
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Posted: Sun Jun 15th, 2008 10:49 am |
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this is my spray of choice.....and it works really well (and doesn't smell all that bad either). I do find however, when it's really thick out there, I need to pull out the Deet....
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Posted: Sun Jun 15th, 2008 06:14 pm |
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admin wrote: I have one of the SkeeterVacs, which runs off propane, which traps an amazing amount, but not enough!!!! The Think Green side of me kinda disappears when it comes to late spring, early summer in Maine.
I was wondering about those - they are fairly expensive so I was waiting for some reports. I was told by one person (a salesman) that they're not effective until the second season (fewer skeeters to reproduce). I'm looking forward to hearing more from Doug about his new "trap." The skeeter situation may get worse in New England with so many of the bats dying due to a fungus disease.
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Caribe704
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Posted: Mon Jun 16th, 2008 10:59 am |
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The only other trick (Without DEET) I know is putting those Dryer sheets in your pockets
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Posted: Mon Jun 16th, 2008 11:20 am |
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that is a new one on me. what does that do???
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Posted: Mon Jun 16th, 2008 11:26 am |
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What does that do? Keeps your pockets real soft, for one thing. Keeps your change smelling pretty. Puts people in that mellow good mood a whiff of *fresh air dried laundry* gives, so waiting in lines becomes a more pleasant experience.
If you don't have pockets you can pin one of these to the inside of your pants or shirts/blouses. For a blouse, use tape. Some wear them as bandanas, after tie dying them in bright colors. You may have to stitch a few together, depending on the size of your head.
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Posted: Mon Jun 16th, 2008 11:31 am |
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is this a good time to make a suggestion? you need to get out more.
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Posted: Mon Jun 16th, 2008 12:20 pm |
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I would get out more if I didn't have to tie-die and stitch up those 72 bandanas you asked me for
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Posted: Mon Jun 16th, 2008 12:40 pm |
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| LOL
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Posted: Mon Jun 16th, 2008 11:42 pm |
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Remind me to speak to the ABUSE monitor on this website, oh, never mind...ps, dryersheets make mosquitos think your a mountain spring, so they wont bite you, but, they will lay eggs in your hair
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Posted: Tue Jun 17th, 2008 02:30 pm |
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OK, here is the scoop. It is called OakStump Farms Mosquito Trap and you can read about it and other 'green' solutions to pests at http://www.springstar.net . OakStump stuff is at http://www.springstar.net/PDFs/OakStumpFarms.pdf . They make traps for quite a few different critters, including yellow jackets, which I'll be looking into this August. They recommend 2 traps for most average size yards. The traps were $11 and refills were $4.
So far, we are still mosquitoless in our back yard. I've had a couple nibbles in the front, where there is no trap. Wifey's sister is also pleased with hers.
Last edited on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 09:49 pm by Doug
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