Watcha doin???

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Liquid Tension, Jun 5, 2014.

  1. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Next time I'm at the hardware store I most likely will. My thumb will thank me. it doesn't feel very good to hit my thumb with the hammer. I need to go to the hardware store soon anyway because I ran out of poison pellets to deal with the voles that have taken up residence somewhere under my yard. If I can find some large stones I'm going to let off the toxic smoke bombs to smoke them out.
     
  2. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    Save yourself the trouble.
    Just buy some grub worm killer... Diazapam, or something like that, I think. I used to have a huge mole problem, and nothing worked to get rid of them, until I got rid of their food source.

    Now, annual application to kill the grub worms and no more tunnelling critters.
     
  3. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Does that affect songbirds? I want to get rid of the voles but don't want to harm the songbirds.
     
  4. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    Not in the slightest.

    Songbirds are good.
     
  5. TomH

    TomH Well-Known Member

    Cats are also a good alternative.
     
  6. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    We have a cat but we live on the main road so keep him indoors. We've seen so many cats run over on the main road we don't want ours to join them. Our neighbor across the road had literally just got one cat back from the vet with a broken leg (due to being run over) when their other cat was run over and killed.
     
  7. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Going to be headed to the hardware store soon, will look out for it.

    Thanks for the tip.
     
  8. teddyv

    teddyv The horse is in the barn. Staff Member

    Diazepam is also known as Valium. I guess you might get some really relaxed voles.
     
  9. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    Reminds me of the guy who washed down his Xanax with six pints of prune juice. He couldn't leave the toilet for three days but he was OK with that.
     
  10. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    Ask for grub worm killer. Or relaxer. Or stoner. Or mellower.......
     
  11. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    I got some poison with bromethalin. The worm killer was a honking great sack of stuff and I didn't feel like hauling it home. If bromethalin doesn't get rid of them I'll try taking out the food source.
     
  12. TomH

    TomH Well-Known Member

    Rat terrier, invisible fence.
     
  13. teddyv

    teddyv The horse is in the barn. Staff Member

    I was a bit conflicted over moles in my lawn at our previous house. They are a visual nuisance, but they do eat a lot of pests in the ground as well.
     
  14. tango

    tango ... and you shall live ... Staff Member

    The trouble for me is they dig holes, and quite a few of them. Then they destroy plants. I'm getting a bit tired of both, so the voles gotta go. If it weren't for living on the main road I'd let the cat outside and he'd have a field day with them - I can easily picture him sitting there watching the holes for the first sign of a vole head.
     
  15. teddyv

    teddyv The horse is in the barn. Staff Member

    Pretty cool fossils my colleague found during a job in the Rockies. The slab he took was even more impressive.
     

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  16. Athanasius

    Athanasius Life is not a problem to be solved Staff Member

    Watched the 1977 Tom Pryce F1 crash. Do not watch the 1977 Tom Pryce F1 crash.
     
  17. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    "Crash" and "watch" are two words I try to avoid in the same sentence.
     
  18. teddyv

    teddyv The horse is in the barn. Staff Member

    Man, do I ever hate Christians discussing poliitics.
     
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  19. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    Ha.

    I don't mind discussions about policy, but politics??? Yuck.
    Anytime anyone invokes Jesus into a discussion of politics, I tune them out as irrational and unreliable in thought. If they invoke truth, grace, and Biblical principle into policy, them I'm all ears.
     
  20. Athanasius

    Athanasius Life is not a problem to be solved Staff Member

    To be fair, the vast majority of people who talk politics ought to be hated. If Kant's categorical imperative taught us anything, it's that.
     

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