1) Hump those cotton pickin' mice. I think I just about got 'em all. 17 in a week. I grosses me out to think that I had 17 critters running around in my house. Thanks to Babs and her tip about reduced fat peanut butter, I don't have to worry about it any more. It's been 2 days and no mice!
2) Hump everyone smarter than me. If you can read this, you are a good candidate. You need a good humping for all the hard work you've put into studying. Besides if someone humps your brains out, you may just get dumbed down enough that we could hang out. That could be cool, unless you think you're smart. And if you think you're smart... well... you can finish #2 smarty pants.
3) Hump whatever factors are making it damn near impossible to find some ammo to hunt with. What the hell is going on? I can't find 270 shells which means no hunting which means no deer meat. This sucks!!! What happened to the days when you could just walk in Wal-Mart and buy some ammo?
4) Hump this southern weather. Why is it that we can have a ton of ice storms every year but rarely ever have snow on Christmas. I remember several years ago we got snow at Easter. GRRrr. Somebody needs to flick the right switches on the weather machine cause I want some snow for Christmas this year. (without flying to Denver)
5) Hump CenturyLink. Our Internet goes down and we sit on the phone through 8 menus only to talk to a tech that hangs up on me because I don't have my account number. Helloooo. I pay my bills online. If I had Internet, I would have my account number. So I get on my cell to look up my account number call back. Again there are the 8 menus one stating "If you are having problems logging on, you can visit our website at W W W DOT CENTURYLINK DOT COM." OMG! I wanted to turn into a digital signal, travel to that machine, and kick it's ass. The first menu a lady says "press 4 if you have qwerst-shuns about ya bill." Then after sitting on hold for another 20 minutes I'm told that it will be 24 to 48 hours before a tech will be dispatched. GRRrrr. Whatever happened to same day service. It was a blessing in disguise though because I borrowed a copy of Modern Warfare 2 and if the Internet was on, I probably wouldn't have gotten the attic and garage straightened up.
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Do any of you watch Dexter? I have just recently started watching it and I am friggin HOOKED. It is probably the best series I have ever seen or could imagine. It is NEVER boring and always leaves you wanting more. I started watching about 5-6 episodes ago and this is season 4. They are talking about the biggest twist in the history of the show. Any guesses on what it might be? I thought the "Hi daddy!" was a huge twist/shocker. I absolutely cannot wait until Sunday night. If any wants to leave a guess in comments I'd appreciate it. If anyone guesses it correctly, I'll send you a prize or something. John Lithgow has to be eligible for some kind of award for his role. DAMN!!! That's all I can say.
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We live in Maine. My husband was complaining about the ammo thing this year too! He wanted Shells for his 270 so our 15yo son could hunt moose this year. He found them but had to go to a gun shop to get them. And the 15yo got his moose the first morning of moose season about a 1/2hr after legal time started. If you like deer you would LOVE moose. I hope you find some ammo so you can fill your freezer.
1. Deb will find out that Dexter is a serial Killer. Or 2. The trinity killer will kill Rita.
I don't know which one it is, as they're not following the book series at all, but I think it might be one of those!
My husband works for a major hunting outfitter, so I get to hear about the ammo deal ALOT! :) Anyways what happended is because of 9/11 everyone got "ammo happy". So the supply went way down. Then the war happend so all of the backstock that the ammo manufactorers had was taken by the govenment and the manufactorers had to switch to making more ammo for the weapons that the government had and decrease on others. Unless you are preparing for hunting season ahead of time (think 2-3 months) you are going to be out of luck when it comes to ammunition for your weapon. Because there is no back-stock, stores can only get a limited supply, and when they are out, they are completely out. Its even hard to find lead and other reloading materials if you reload your own bullets and shells. Thankfully the ammo shortage is getting better and hopefully the manufacturers will be able to build up their back-stock again. The best advice is to buy way in advance and buy a full case when you can so you don't have to worry about it year to year.
Hope that helps! BTW I really enjoy both you and Crystal's blogs! Merry Christmas!
RE: Hump #3-the Disappearing Ammo
You can thank those Politicians that don't want you to legally own firearms. They've figured out that no one in their right mind is going to freely give up their weapons, so they've effed with the ammo. No bullets means no shootings and aren't they smart in the White House? I guess you can always take a swing at them with your stock, tho.....
Tip for you....when you get that menu series, press this, then this...blah, blah, blah....you just hit zero, all the way through til you get to a live person.
It works on almost every automated phone menu system.
Carrie,
I soooo do that every time. Call CenturyLink the local number and hit "zero." It says invalid entry and hangs up on you. GRRrrrr.
I know Columbine had a lot to do with getting ammo off the shelves of K-Mart. Don't know about anywhere else.
Okay so what's the deal with the low fat peanut butter?
Recent fan of Dexter also! So freaks out my husband which is probably why I like it! hehe. Start watching it and can't stop! His 'other self' narrating is a tad weird, but man it's not boring!! :-D
Hate automated phone systems- cable/internet companies are the worst!
Reduced fat peanut butter is thicker. They were licking regular peanut butter right off the trap without setting it. also use walmart brand traps. They are more sensitive. The lows brand only caught one mouse out of 8 traps. (yeah I went overboard about 12 traps out at a time. It worked though!)
So you shop for ammo online? I know there are a lot of ammunition shortages (due, in part, to everything since 9/11 and recent stockpiling over the past year) but looking through a couple of sites will find you about anything except the most rare. Midway USA has 270.
I usually get ammo just before I go hunting. I don't go that often and dont really want it in the house with the the little one. I heard that there is a gun store about 5 miles from the house that has some. Going to check there.
Thanks for all the tips.
I love Dexter too. We have Comcast and all of the other seasons were recently on demand so I got to catch up from the beginning. This is the best season yet. I really think that Cody will be taken by Trinity. He is in the right age range isn't he? This will mean that Dexter will have to fess up to some of his secrets in order to save Cody.
Here is my guess on the huge twist/shocker: Dexter & Deb will discover that they are actually half siblings. Harry had an affair w/ Dex's mom, so... There are other things that make me lean towards this but you won't understand since you started with season 4. I've been watching from the beginning and it is honestly the best series on TV. Love it.
want my snow ? please you can come and take it . we have had storm after storm for almost 2 weeks and each storm last 4 days with a 2 day brake another just started.
some people here have been snowed in to their houses for a week or more because the stupid government forgot to make a good snow removal budget and last week they went over their budget for the year (in one freakin week ) so there is a pause while they decided what to do about it, meanwhile people are trapped in their houses by snow .
oh and elk is better then dear, moose is so much better then elk but caribou is better then moose
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