You should send your black snake to Suranis

Sorry you're having so many problems, Ms Daisy.

Do houses back east not have window screens? How do so many bugs and stuff get into your house?

One thing you could do to make yourself feel better is to put some nesting materials out for the poor mama bird who lost her nest.

I hope your luck improves.

Every year, I fight the same battles -- getting rid of the ants that invade my house every spring.

Yes, we have screens, but my house is 200 years old and I think it's made of Swiss cheese.

HOkay, I’m NOT having very much fun this weekend! (Aside from birfing and parties that is) First there were a gazillion baby black widows and their mom next to my kitchen door. Then we had hornets on the screen porch and in the BATHTUB upstairs. (Same sombitches that stung me on the back of the head last year and it felt like I’d been shot, but this time they died before they could do any stinging!)

I accidentally destroyed a bird nest, (no eggs yet) ripping out a Jasmine vine with a root ball the size of a VW. I felt really bad when the mama bird came back with more twigs and her home was gone. She sat on the edge of the roof starring and then just dropped the twigs and hung her head.

THEN there was a black snake hanging over the doorknob of my kitchen door (and then over the porch rail and hanging into the garden) that fell on my leg when I opened the door and I screamed so loud even my cat came running with the dogs to see WTF was going on. When I went back outside to see where it went the goddamn thing was going straight up the side of my house.

And I just finished driving a Phillips head screwdriver tip into my hand with a drill trying to force out a stuck screw! And it HURTED real bad!

Now I think I’ll go cut some grass and see what the hell else will happen.

I haven't had a problem with ants in this place, but I did in Santa Cruz.

I used one of those citrus cleanersto kill them and it kept them away. Worked on termites too.

You could probably make some by boiling orange peels.

Um, just a guess, but your Dunlops? Or Michelins?

Must be a bear to heat/cool.

That's what I was doing last summer when I got stung on the head by that damn European hornet, I was cutting that firewood.

...There are 8 exterior doors in this house.

Militant Tied to U.S.S. Cole Bombing Said to Be Killed
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: May 6, 2012



WASHINGTON — A senior Qaeda militant in Yemen linked to the deadly bombing of an American warship there in 2000 was killed in an airstrike on Sunday, the Yemeni government said, in the latest sign of an escalating American campaign to counter the terrorist threat there.

Yemeni authorities said the militant, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso, 37, who has been on the F.B.I.’s Most Wanted list in connection with the bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole that killed 17 sailors in October 2000, died in the strike in Shabwa Province in one of the rugged tribal areas controlled by insurgents.

The Yemen Embassy here in Washington described him as “a leading figure in the terrorist organization Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” using the affiliate’s full name.

Yet even as Yemeni authorities were announcing Mr. Quso’s death, American officials said they needed a few days to confirm the strike and any casualties. Because so many of Al Qaeda’s senior leaders in Pakistan have been killed or captured, including Osama bin Laden, the Qaeda affiliate in Yemen is considered by American counterterrorism specialists as the one posing the most immediate threat to the United States.

The siege is over!

Mouse got caught last night in one of the traps. Was pretty much the perfect mousetrap slam. The mouse got it right at the base of the skull, probably never knew what hit it. I didn't touch it, just threw it out the back into the trees, trap and all.

Hello bedroom!!

fear me, A mighty hunter!!