Random stuff plus Friday music
I've been having more squirrel issues so I've moved up to chemical warfare. I boiled a pound of Habanero peppers, strained them and used the resulting infused water to fill a large spray bottle.
I took it into the back yard and soaked everything that the tree rats like to chew on. It seems to be working so far... I think I'll spray some peanuts and watch one of those little fuckers smoke from both ends.
My kids are getting along better but I have no idea what goes through their heads sometimes..my 8 year old took an expensive porcelain comic book type statue out of my son's room, broke off the hands and feet and hid it under some of her barbies.
It took a couple of days to get the truth out of her but after
I told her that she is going to have to do chores to pay for the statue. Since the concept of the value of money is still foreign for her I think a couple of weeks of scrubbing toilets will pay it off...she had better get it done before double digit inflation hits.
Friday music:
posted by Bill Rowland @ May 08, 2009
31 Comments
31 Comments:
My favorite Beatles song!! :)
That's a lot of rage in your 8 year old... A disconnection somewhere... You don't do something that that for no reason - not unless you are a burgeoning sadist or a sociopath without empathy, conscience or impulse control.
I know it's just a china statue - that's not as significant as the lack of explanation/remorse afterwards.
Kids will be kids but I know what you mean. Kora was given an expensive doll for X-mas this year and the feet were broke off. She admitted to dropping it. I had told her she couldnt play with that one so I have put it up in my closet where she cant have it.. Happy Weekend guys and gals.
I agree - there's more to the statue...she may not want to tell you - ask your son to think about it, not that he'll tell you either but it might be something they have to work out between them. She was "showing him". Or she's jealous?
If you'd had something old from Gordon Lightfoot and Cohen with the others, you'd have the stuff my brother played nonstop back then. I remember playing Norwegian wood on our old piano at the lake.
Jessica: me too
Annie: it's one of my fears but her sister who is 10 months older is just ending this stage I hope my youngest does too.
Tweety: this has been an ongoing thing...clothing shredded dolls destroyed pictures ripped. I guess all parents go through it. Frustrating.
Jeannie: I'm sure he did something to piss her off.an off hand comment or not letting her get her way. She is hell bent on getting even and then some.
Gordon Lightfoot is one of the best!
My daughter has been known to do stuff like that in the past. Her idea now as to why she did it (then it was always, "I just did") is that being the smallest, she couldn't always deliver retribution for wrongs at the time they occurred, but she could "get even" later.
She laid her 11 year old brother out with a See-n-Say when she was 13 months old. He'd been picking on her, she waited until he was engrossed in a t.v. show, walked up behind him and WHAM! He quit picking on her at least.
To quote NFO, she doesn't just get even, she gets ahead.
The smoking squirrel thing nearly made me roll. Must have pictures when the event occurs!
Wouldn't we all like to smoke the same stuff Lennon was smoking when he wrote Norwegian Wood?
i would hate to be that squirrel
I don't envy that squirrel one bit, but I have been craving some Moody Blues. Thanks!
Good choice on the Beatles tune.
Could Roger Daltry do any worse lip syncing?
Where exactly did they show these "videos" like the Moody Blues one in the days before MTV? I've seen some pretty elaborate ones from the Beatle's too.
The Moody Blues are the best. I took my youngest to see them last year. He loved it.
My younger brother used to get into my older brothers models. My older brother would beat the crap out of him then take his model outside and burn it.
My kids were more civil. At least when I was around. Now they are best friends. I love it.
My god those songs bring back high school memories...Yeah, I'm old!
Woody, that's not Roger Daltry. The lead singer of the Moody Blues in the mid 60s was Denny Laine. He left the band in 1966 and later joined Paul McCartney to form the band Wings in 1971.
Kids are crazy. You can't ever figure out what's going through their heads.
I love playing The Seeker on Guitar Hero!
Jerry - I think Woody was referring to Roger Daltrey in The Seeker...
Chemical warfare is the only way to go when it comes to those little bastards, but if you want to be "green" and "PC" about it, the habanero's is fucking genius! I wonder if that works on tweekers?
I'm not a huge Beatles fan but Norwegian Wood is on of my faves. Cheeers Hammer!!
Got any ideas on what I can do to keep a neighbor's dog from leaving big stinking, steaming piles of dog crap on my lawn?
Other than shooting the SOB...that's my first choice (shoot the inconsiderate neighbor, not the dog).
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9 May 2009
Tonight Mac Farlanes Lantern Wax'eth Bright all through the Chilly Autumn Night
Tonight I hope will not be a re-occurrence of the invasion of our club by Anzac day nutters who had been ejected from other local clubs. These loonies use Anzac Day as an all-day general binge drinking pissup and lose sight of the true meaning of the occasion.
Thank you anonymous commenting on my last post(No pun intended).I allowed your info, due to it being unintentionally intrusive. However my son David is faring well, after his operation and myself; well there is no need to wonder why; with regard to my Brain Scan. I am not being locked away, it is simply a precaution being taken, due to none booze related headaches I have been experiencing recently that may have resulted from a prior accident Feb-9-08.
Today I am feeling much better than yesterday, so I shall add a little bit of humour to wind up post Number 501.. I will return on Monday.
The Itch
Once upon a time lived a beautiful Queen with large breasts. ZOM the Zombie Slayer obsessed over the Queen for this reason. However, he knew that the penalty for his desire would be death should he try to touch them, but he had to try.
One day ZOM revealed his secret desire to his colleague, Vest the Physician, the King's chief doctor. Vest thought about this and said that he could arrange for Zom to more than satisfy his desire, but it would cost him 1000 gold coins to arrange it. Without pause Zom readily agreed to the scheme.
The next day, Vest made a batch of itching powder and poured a little bit into the Queen's bra while she bathed. Soon after she dressed, the itching commenced and grew intense. Upon being summoned to the Royal Chambers to address this incident, Vest informed the King and Queen that only a special saliva, if applied for four hours, would cure this type of itch, and that tests had shown that only the saliva of 'Zom The Salivator' would work as the antidote to cure the itch.
The King, eager to help his Queen, quickly summoned ZOM to their chambers. Vest then slipped ZOM the antidote for the itching powder, which he put into his mouth, and for the next four hours, Zom worked passionately on the Queen's large and magnificent breasts. The Queen's itching was eventually relieved, and ZOM left satisfied and hailed as a hero. Upon returning to his chamber, ZOM found Vest demanding his payment of 1,000 gold coins.
With his obsession now satisfied, ZOM couldn't have cared less and, knowing that Vest could never report this matter to the King, and with a laugh told him to get lost.
The next day, Vest slipped a massive dose of the same itching powder into the King's underwear. The King immediately summoned Zom.
The moral of the story............
Pay your bills.
Hi Zom you old c/s, Have a sucking good weekend. Vest.
posted by Vest @ 5/09/2009 01:54:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
I don't know, breaking the statue could have been pure impulse. I used to do weird stuff like that and then wonder why I did it.
Great songs!
Maeve -
Flaming bag of shit...
Maeve, take your shovel and scoop up the pile and take it to his door step each time. This will cure the problem everytime. I did it and it works.
Hammer, you can also dust with cayenne pepper. I dust around my mailbox with it and when dogs come sniffing around looking for a place to leave their mark...well they get a nose full and it burns.
Boiling a pound of hot peppers, huh? At first I thought man, that is really wicked. Then I thought about the current nemesis in our house, that being a never-ending stream of ants invading us and I'm wondering if I boiled peppers, sprayed that mist around the areas where they seem to be getting into the place, if it would blast those little sapsuckers to hell and back again? Who knows. Maybe it would be just the ticket to chase them away cause nothing else seems to have worked.
Sniggle: sometimes I wish they would just have it out but it just seems to escalate.
Lexcen: I've wondered what inspired it.
snowmanpoop: I'd hate to be the other squirrel tailgating him.
toaster: Thanks..yep the blues are my favorite.
Woody: good question.it's like they hald them in storage in anticipation of MTV
beachgirl: I saw them about 10 years ago and they were great then too. Sounded better than the album
Deadman: I was barely learning to swim down the vans deferens
Jerry: thats what I thought too
Terri: yeah me too..it's one of the harder ones.
Deadman: that makes sense. I think they put the good recording over an old video.
CD: nah not green or PC here just out to inflict massive pain.
Matt-man: I think it's the sitar
Maeve: I used to camp in the bushes with an air horn. but the habanero will work too.
Vest: errrm I'll take that under advisement.
Barbara: I think its impulse as well but they seem to have a lot of them
Deadman: lol isn't that a hate crime now that obama is in office
they keep thinking we are burning him in effigy
H20: excellent advise
Jeni: I sprayed some on ants and they dies instantly but I don't know how to get it down to the queen. Try sugar outside on the ants it really works.
You need a kitten for those tree rats, Hammer.
;-)
Nice tunes, good to see you blogging still Hammer!! I've been on a many seasons hiatus from this stuff.
borepatch: My dog chases them like lightning but he isn't stealthy enough.
Miss ann: Glad to see you. Me too I'm just getting back. Let me know if you start up again.
Deadman: lol isn't that a hate crime now that obama is in office
they keep thinking we are burning him in effigy
CLASSIC!
Like your creative recipe there. Hafta remember that.
I have a small spray bottle of fox urine (I know, sounds weird...available at the feed store)
The first small spray sent the squirrels running...literally and within seconds....quite entertaining. Guess they don't wanna co-habitate with a fox. :)
Here's hopin' the chemical warfare works. BB gun might help.
And love the tunes.
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