SeeYou190I have some little black and white spiders on my back porch I cannot get rid of. They jump! I mean they can really jump in an astonishing fashion. Just what I needed, super-jumping-spiders.
Hi Kevin,
If we are talking about the same thing, jumping spiders don't bite humans but they do eat lots of smaller creatures like mites that will bite you. Keep in mind that, if there are lots of jumping spiders, that means that they have a good food supply so they may in fact be helping you. I would leave them alone unless there are so many of them that they are annoying.
If you don't want them, please send them up to us. We have an infestation of red spider mites and those tiny little 'b....rds' (sorry moderators) can give you a nasty bite. The jumping spiders feast on them. We are at the point of having the deck sprayed but we really would rather not have to do that.
Cheers!!
Dave
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Dianne has been experimenting with some appetizer recipes for a party we will be going to on the 26th. Yesterday she made a bunch of glazed bacon wrapped water chestnuts. She used a whole can of water chestnuts so we ended up with a heaping plate full. We couldn't stop eating them! There were only a few left so we will have to make more for you guys.
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Post hog!!
I have decided to give up driving until my right knee is fixed. I am having trouble both getting on to the brake pedal and applying the brakes smoothly. Bummer!
hon30critter Yesterday she made a bunch of glazed bacon wrapped water chestnuts.
Have you tried bacon-wrapped pickled watermelon rind yet, Dave? These were a happy-hour staple on many of the private railroad car trips I've been on.
I hope you find relief for your knee problem, soon.
Take me to your leader...
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O563 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Let's see that print again...
B&O, Hamler, Ohio, 1986 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Hi Ed,
Thanks for the reminder about the bacon wrapped pickled watermelon rind. Dianne's mom used to make them. She loved them but she explained you didn't want to eat too many or there would be repercussions.
Good Afternoon,
A very hot 95 F here with a humidex of 109F. I went out in the car and the A/C was struggling, blowing cool, not cold. I may need the refrigerant topped up.
The planting is finally done, 102 pots and 9 baskets. We must be nuts. Next will be a monster water bill.
Mike, nice job on the fire pit.
John, guess you are heading out soon on your vacation.
Nothing much new here,
CN Charlie
Good Morning Diners. Brunhilda, a bowl of granola cereal and a coffee please. Thanks.
I appreciate the kind words on my fire pit patio project from everyone. We are so happy with it. As we were showing my mother-in-law, my wife was telling her how much time I put in it and how it was my last project of the summer. Really?? Since when?
CNCharlie102 pots and 9 baskets. We must be nuts.
Dave, sorry to hear about your knee troubles causing so much issue for you. Hopefully the doctors can get you fixed up soon.
Kevin that is really strange about the police. Makes you wonder.
My wife and I have been trying our hand at pickleball and went out again last night with some friends. We're enjoying it! Not saying we are any good at it (we aren't), but neither are our friends, so it all works out well enough.
Different signal aspects explained.
Mike
Good morning. It's a thundering morning, but no rain.
Have a great Wednesday, everyone.
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone. Chloe, do you have all the ingedients for a fried Spam, spinich, and tomato omelette with gouda cheese? If so, I will have one.
There are now six empty houses around mine.
The news has been reporting massive move-outs for renters from Cape Coral, and there is a glut of unsold houses on the market.
I guess the rents got so high that finally no one can afford them.
The house across the street they were wanting over $3,000.00 per month for, so the people moved out. It has been vacant for three months now, and the asking rent has dropped to $2,400.00, which is what the previous tennants were paying.
A lot of people have looked at the house South of me for $290,000.00, but no one will buy it.
The house Southwest of me has a lot of hurricane damage and is now abandon.
I am not liking the way this is going. I had some of the best neighbors in the world before the storm. Now they have all moved, and only the bad ones remain. I don't want anymore bad neighbors.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190 There are now six empty houses around mine. The news has been reporting massive move-outs for renters from Cape Coral, and there is a glut of unsold houses on the market. I guess the rents got so high that finally no one can afford them. The house across the street they were wanting over $3,000.00 per month for, so the people moved out. It has been vacant for three months now, and the asking rent has dropped to $2,400.00, which is what the previous tennants were paying. -Photograph by Kevin Parson I am not liking the way this is going. I had some of the best neighbors in the world before the storm. Now they have all moved, and only the bad ones remain. I don't want anymore bad neighbors. -Kevin
Wasn't that the house that was built brand new a few years ago? Was it built as a rental or did the owners move out and then rented it?
- Douglas
SeeYou190There are now six empty houses around mine.
Was it something you said on the forum?
Good evening Diners. I had the car serviced and it has passed its test. Good to go for another year.
As some already know I am a member of The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society.
The L&YR School of Signalling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MTaPwuDAqg&ab_channel=NationalRailwayMuseum
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
SeeYou190I am not liking the way this is going. I had some of the best neighbors in the world before the storm. Now they have all moved, and only the bad ones remain. I don't want anymore bad neighbors.
I am really sad to hear that your neighbourhood is deteriorating, especially given all the work and money you have invested in your home. All I can offer is hope that things will turn around, and soon.
DoughlessWasn't that the house that was built brand new a few years ago? Was it built as a rental or did the owners move out and then rented it?
It was built a couple of years ago.
It was on the market for only a brief moment. An investor bought it immediately and rented it out.
The same tennents lived there since it was new. Three younger couples that split the rent. They were all very nice people with no kids. I was not happy when they left.
hon30critterI am really sad to hear that your neighbourhood is deteriorating, especially given all the work and money you have invested in your home. All I can offer is hope that things will turn around, and soon.
Not really deteriorating, just all of a sudden there are a lot of vacancies.
New neighbors are always unsettling for me. I have had some bad ones in the 24 years I have lived here, and I just don't want to deal with that anymore.
I love the peace and quiet we have 99%+ of the time.
Good Morning Diners. Janie, coffee and an english muffin please.
Kevin, hopefully when new neighbors come they will be good. We've had seven change around us in a relatively short time. Five of the changes were good, one so-so, one not so much. Really only two "right next door" neighbors left to change and they are both senior ladies. The one right next to our house has said her son wants her house when she is gone. Haven't met him yet, but he does tend to do a bunch of yard work when he visits so that's probably a good sign. The other either has a daughter living with her already (that would be good assuming the daughter gets/keeps the house when she goes), or her daughter is local as we see her all the time. That one I'm more concerned about as if her daughter doesn't want the place, I'm not sure who will buy it. It is an entirely unattractive mid-century modern house painted dark brown that also housed the family's TV sales & repair business. It still has the glass store front on one side. They've tried selling it a couple times in the past but had no bites on it. I looked at the interior photos the last time it was listed. Everything inside from the carpet to the furniture to the appliances is straight out of the 1970s. The only thing worth having it for is the four city lots it sits on. Seriously, my guess is if it gets sold, whoever buys it in the future will tear it down, divide the lot, and build new houses to immediately sell.
I drained our hot tub a couple months ago as it was due for a water change. We hadn't been using it so I was in no hurry to refill it. With the hot weather we've finally gotten, I decided now would be a good time to fill it back up again to let the warm temps do the initial warming up of the water for free. I usually run it very cool in the summer so it is actually refreshing to hop in it. Well, I may have a leak that was not there when I drained it. My only hope is maybe the hose was blasting it at just the right spot and forced water out an otherwise okay seal. I took the sides off last night, but couldn't see the source of the moisture that was coming away from the base on account of all the sprayed on isulation. If it doesn't let up on it's own, it's going to be a bear to find and fix. Ugh!
Good morning, diners. I hope everyone is doing well.
It's grass-cutting day.
Have a great Thursday.
SeeYou190It was built a couple of years ago. It was on the market for only a brief moment. An investor bought it immediately and rented it out. The same tennents lived there since it was new. Three younger couples that split the rent. They were all very nice people with no kids. I was not happy when they left.
Sounds like maybe they grew up and decided to get their own places. I know Florida is growing and there is a lot of new construction. Swaths of acreage being converted into housing, so maybe there are more options for your neighbors than what they've had in the past.
I wouldn't be surprised if the hurricane scared some people off too.
I hope things work out.
If not, if you were a risk taker, you could buy one or two. You've got skill to freshen them up and a source of supplies at The HD...LOL.
Good morning everyone. Chloe, can I get a fried egg sandwich on whole wheat toast please?
Water Level RouteKevin, hopefully when new neighbors come they will be good.
This is the house that has always concerned me:
It has a wide open very unusual floor plan.
It is basically a one-bedroom loft apartment with an attached two car garage.
When I moved here, it was occupied by the original owner. He had it custom built. He was a semi-retired engineer from Maryland and a lifelong bachelor. He built the house for himself. After Hurricane Charley he moved back to Maryland.
Since then the house has been occupied by two retired couples. That has been lucky.
I know it is just a matter of time before some semi-successful single guy in his 20s decides this house is the perfect party house. It can never be occupied by a family without a major remodel, and it is a lot smaller than it looks from the outside.
Hoping for another retired couple, but the current batch of retirees are not much better than partiers in their 20s. Oh well.
DoughlessIf not, if you were a risk taker, you could buy one or two. You've got skill to freshen them up and a source of supplies at The HD...LOL.
I thought about that, for about 5 seconds!
I am enjoying the no-stress lifestyle way too much for that.
My middle daughter really wants to buy the house across the street, but it is not for sale. She cannot tackle all the work needed on the one next door for $290,000.00. I have heard the discussions of the "Flippers" looking at it, and they all seem to agree it needs about $100,000.00 in renovations.
gmpullmanLet's see that print again...
Is that what is called a "smash signal"?
Signals from behind:
Burlington Northern - Hinsdale, IL by d.w.davidson, on Flickr
I've always admired the Burlington's 'Race Track'.
We have had rain all week. In the local TV listening area it has been 1-6". We have had 1.8" I appreciated the rain, but the gray foggy days are getting old.
I had the grandkids last weekend. They have way more energy than I do. We took them to my wife's neice who has a child close in age and a trampoline, which wore them out. I think they enjoyed their visit. It broke up my routine of going to the gym and I haven't been this week.
Kevin I am sorry about your neighborhood. I went to FIT in Melbourne for my freshman year in 1969. It was a space industry neighborhood. Everyone was from somewhere else and all the housing and commercial buildings were younger than I was. Except for the area around Gainesville. I did not venture to the west coast or the panhandle. You reminded me, I need to talk to my friend that owns a second floor condo in Naples. The first floor was wiped out and no one wanted to rebuild.
I realize that is further north than you are, but it was cold in the winter. I have no desire to live in FL.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Good afternoon from the stunning West Coast
Don't notice the incredibly good triple shot iced mocha or the warm sunny day in perfectville, check out those perfectly straight mower lines! Forest Gump ain't got nothin on me.
Good neighbours or bad neighbours, they are too far away to matter.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BigDaddy Except for the area around Gainesville. <SNIP> I realize that is further north than you are, but it was cold in the winter.
I grew up in Gainesville, right on the U of F campus.
Yes, I remember the bitter cold days up there.
I'll take the weather down here in the proper South. 10+ years since we have seen freezing.
RE gmpullman's pic of the BN signals "from behind"...
Those particular "searchlights" were the best signals of all. They were intensely bright and had a "depth" to them that the one-color replacements (particularly those that used incandescent bulbs) just didn't have. They were EASY to see, even in the brightest light. You couldn't miss them.
They had them on the former New Haven Springfield line for years, and on the old Maybrook freight line.
The newer LED lights are pretty good, but still don't match the brilliance of the old searchlights.
hon30critterIf we are talking about the same thing, jumping spiders don't bite humans but they do eat lots of smaller creatures like mites that will bite you. Keep in mind that, if there are lots of jumping spiders, that means that they have a good food supply so they may in fact be helping you. I would leave them alone unless there are so many of them that they are annoying.
The problem is that they are on the back porch. I cannot have any bugs of any type in my relaxing zone!
Mornin'!
SeeYou190I'll take the weather down here in the proper South. 10+ years since we have seen freezing.
Well.... I like it up here in the North myself (to each their own...). We have all four seasons here.
Yep! They are: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning everyone. Chloe, bring me three chocolate donuts with chocolate icing and a small bowl of peanut butter to smear on top of them. Thank you.
BrassTrainsDotCom listed the Fos Scale model ar $125.00 on their website.
Or... you can just go to the Fos Scale Models website and buy it brand new for $86.95, if that is what you prefer.
Good morning, diners. Friday again!
Maybe a signal system like this could be adapted for my garage to help my wife get the Ford into the garage in a straight line.
Have a good day.
York1Maybe a signal system like this could be adapted for my garage to help my wife get the Ford into the garage in a straight line.
My wife can get the Impala into the garage OK, but she refuses to back it out if I am at home.
SeeYou190A very nice model of a USRA Heavy 2-10-2 has showed up on eBay, and it has caught my eye. I am considering it. Temptation might get the best of me.
I got outbid, but it still went for a very low price. I might end up regretting not grabbing this one for myself.
I finally have a date for my right knee replacement. It is happening on August 18th which is much sooner than I thought it would be. Covid caused huge delays in many non-critical surgeries. At one point knee surgeries were delayed by almost a year after diagnosis.
I'm happy that it will happen so soon. I have given up driving because I don't trust myself to be able to apply the brakes properly.
My last attempt to reply ended with a Forbidden 403 error. Then I got a pop-up asking if I wanted to translate the page from Danish to English. By Grabthar's Hammer, no! I like the Danish in the Diner just fine!
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley I like the Danish in the Diner just fine!