Snails - Response on Threads Part 4

[SilverBear]

I will tell a true-life tale later, after more raking.

So...

... the 8- or 9-year-old girl from Neighbour East raked up a pile of leaves in Neighbour West's back yard last Saturday. And the pile has sat there ever since... but magically becoming slightly smaller as it "eroded" continually into MY back yard due to winds.

Today, I just took the mower to the pile.

As I was mulching it, Neightbour West (the now 92-year-old woman) poked out her back door and was waving to me. SILLY ME!!!... I thought she was going to tell me her son and/or grandson and/or hired hand was going to take care of it AND the rest of her yard crap. But, no. That pile was for the kid who raked it to JUMP in!!! I said the only "jumping" I was seeing were the leaves jumping OFF the pile and INTO my back yard. If the kids wants leaves for a pile, she can take the 5 bags I've done today - in convenient easily-transportable bags - and make another pile in her DOWNWIND back yard. Too bad. So sad. Life is tough.

(And here is where Atty can get his "bad karma" finger ready to point at me again.)

I also asked - again, perennially - if her son and/or grandson are off hunting in Vermont because I have not seen them doing anything in her yard, front OR back. "Off hunting" is her annual excuse why NOTHING gets done. I then asked - again, perennially - if she gets the local Pennysaver (knowing full well she does) and CASUALLY mentioned all the "Fall Cleanup" ads that appear within its pages.

There... annual "old lady" rant over, but with a new twist of kidlet East.

 

[SilverBear]

I also have a sneaking suspicion... I don't know why... that is WILL be the last Fall where her 125-foot broadleaf maple will be puking its leaves into my yard. Again, I don't know WHY I am suspecting it, but it's just a strange foreboding. Yep.

 

[SilverBear]

Oh... and snow showers here on Halloween (YAY!!! PTL!!! ... may it also ice and hail and gale-force winds) and accumulating snow on Saturday. Forecast.

 

[tiburonfirst]

wishing for plenty of ice and gale-force winds if that's what it takes

a strange foreboding

 

[Flowersoul]

CES, congratulations on 5 years of vaping.........

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I joined ECF in March 2009, and had my first vape on April 8, 2009 @ 12:30 with a KR 808 automatic from V4L. I was thrilled that I took to it right away and haven't had a cigarettes since.

Oh, and btw, how did you find out about vaping?

 

[CES]

Bear, at least snow and gale-force winds will keep the trick-or-treaters further away from your halloween barbed wire

Gracie, a friend told me about them, and sent me to ECF. You were lucky (more than 5.5 years for you congrats!!), it took me about 6 weeks to get used to vaping and find the right nic level so that i could let go of the last couple of cigs/day. It took another 6 weeks fro me to stop lurking and actually join ECF.

 

[SilverBear]

Bear, at least snow and gale-force winds will keep the trick-or-treaters further away from your halloween barbed wire

It's not barbed wire. It's razor wire. It gets the job done much more neatly and - at first - painlessly. Think "leg shaving" nick. Not TOO bad when it happens, but ooooooo! does it pang afterward.

THIS:

 

[SilverBear]

wishing for plenty of ice and gale-force winds if that's what it takes

The two events are exclusive (tree, weather). But if Mom Nature wants to step in, then fine.

 

[CES]

razor wire, i'll remember correctly next year

 

[SilverBear]

razor wire, i'll remember correctly next year

It's ALWAYS been razor wire (ECF-wise)!!!

I tried piano wire pre-ECF, but it was not sharp enough. All it did was cause tripping.

 

[FranC]

Congrats,CES!!!!!!!!!!!

Think I need some razor wire.

 

[Sniffle]

Just do like me and live so far in the middle of nowhere even the mail person has a hard time finding you when you first move in... Just dont move so far out the mail person doesnt even bother... Like tibs...

Thats how i deal with halloween

 

[CES]

My 'hood is bad enough that the kidlets don't actually go trick or treating- or at least they don't come to my house LOL

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

beautiful 80 degree day. who needs florida? j/k I do.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

My 'hood is bad enough that the kidlets don't actually go trick or treating- or at least they don't come to my house LOL

lol. ces is going urban with her language.

 

[tiburonfirst]

hmpf @ that sniffle

hey, atty!!!!!!!!!!! whatcha think?
http://www.zdnet.com/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp-7000029851/

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

hmpf @ that sniffle

hey, atty!!!!!!!!!!! whatcha think?
http://www.zdnet.com/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp-7000029851/

I'm about ready to buy you a computer with windows 7.

 

[JerryRM]

HELLO?!!!!!

Anybody home?!!!!!

 

[CES]

Heya Jerry!



Pepper, my house is in a transitional urban area. 'hood is the appropriate term (less so since the crack house across the street burnt down several years ago and a brewery and restaurants opened a couple of blocks away)

 

[JerryRM]

Hiya, Chris !!!