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>      88

 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>      88


 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 31§F 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 34§F - 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


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