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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, July 20, 2003 1:54 AM
I think cockroaches, especially the tree roaches we have down here, are natures version of Houdini. It matter not one bit what you do, or spray, they just dont quit. They are kinda the states built in house pet, if you will. I would tell you a story about the grain car, a boxcar, that had the door slide open, and what was crawling around and in the wheat, or the raw material for your bread and wheaties, but you would gross out, and never eat bread again.
And gators dont bother me, my wife raises columbian boa constrictors, I share the house with eight of them, and a luensicent Texas rat snake. The biggest is eight feet long , and weighs 55 lbs, the smallest one, the rat snake, is 3 feet long.
No, they dont squeeze or try to eat people, but we dont have a lot of overnight house guest either.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, July 20, 2003 1:54 AM
I think cockroaches, especially the tree roaches we have down here, are natures version of Houdini. It matter not one bit what you do, or spray, they just dont quit. They are kinda the states built in house pet, if you will. I would tell you a story about the grain car, a boxcar, that had the door slide open, and what was crawling around and in the wheat, or the raw material for your bread and wheaties, but you would gross out, and never eat bread again.
And gators dont bother me, my wife raises columbian boa constrictors, I share the house with eight of them, and a luensicent Texas rat snake. The biggest is eight feet long , and weighs 55 lbs, the smallest one, the rat snake, is 3 feet long.
No, they dont squeeze or try to eat people, but we dont have a lot of overnight house guest either.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

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Posted by BR60103 on Sunday, July 20, 2003 9:19 PM
Can we get back to the nice clean snow?
At least for 5 or 6 monthe I don't have to cut the grass.
You can tell the Canadians in Florida -- they're in the swimming pool in January.
I've only had a few times when I didn't get to work because of snow. A few years ago I backed out of the driveway, which we had shovelled, and couldn't turn in the street. Luckily, all the other guys on the block came over and pushed me back into the driveway.
We had another time when I made it to the GO Train, but we stopped a mile or two from Totonto Union. Seems the snow was so high that each train was filling in the double slips as it passed and they had to be shovelled out before they could be thrown. I got to work about 1 or 2 p.m., just before they closed the office for the day.

--David

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Posted by BR60103 on Sunday, July 20, 2003 9:19 PM
Can we get back to the nice clean snow?
At least for 5 or 6 monthe I don't have to cut the grass.
You can tell the Canadians in Florida -- they're in the swimming pool in January.
I've only had a few times when I didn't get to work because of snow. A few years ago I backed out of the driveway, which we had shovelled, and couldn't turn in the street. Luckily, all the other guys on the block came over and pushed me back into the driveway.
We had another time when I made it to the GO Train, but we stopped a mile or two from Totonto Union. Seems the snow was so high that each train was filling in the double slips as it passed and they had to be shovelled out before they could be thrown. I got to work about 1 or 2 p.m., just before they closed the office for the day.

--David

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