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    Worms

    We have seen many posts for benefits of worms as well as how to make them happy , healthy and reproduce. So, I was wondering what makes worms unhappy, unhealthy and not reproduce so that we DO NOT inadvertently cause their demise? :th:idunno
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    Moles

    Moles have invaded all of our yard as well as our neighbors yards , a State owned large drainage ditch behind our lots in a vengence. We have more mole hills than plants. Pest control wants $90 per mole that they trap. Can anyone recommend a sure fire method to premanently get rid of these...
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    Zeedman

    Zeedman... I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your wife as well as the corporate medicine machine. I am stuck in the middle of the corporate medicine machine in order to get a chair for dialasis. 45 minute drive one way if the highway is clear 3 times a week.
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    Tree be gone !

    Well... I had our Birch tree trimmed at ground level . :smack I purchased this tree as a 3 trunk birch tree that one sees all over the PNW. from a highly recommended large nurser in Portland, Ore.. NOT !!! :th It turned out to be something else that I had never seen before , ie. a...
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    1" / month

    Grandson # 2 age 14 has been growing at the 1"/ month rate since June ... Our # 2 grandson age 14 has been growing at the rate of 1" . month since June. :ep He now stands at 6 feet tall. ...... At his physical, x rays show that his growth plates are wide open. Where will he...
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    It's Fall Season

    So .... I did. o_O I was walking down the driveway in the evening, leaves all over the place. Add some rain drops and your's truely went flying. Next day ... at emergency, doctor looked me all over and said just some bruises on my right side in the rib area and sent me home saying to take...
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    Rose hip jelly

    There is a wild rose growing on the edge of a drainage ditch just behind our back fence . After the State cut down the cotton wood trees, this rose exploded in growth ( now about 10' x10' +/ - ) as well as blooms. The rose hips just started to turn to orange.... so my wife just asked me if i...
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    Public Service Announcement !

    I have been getting my prescription meds. from a mail order pharmacy for years. However, I ended up at the Emergency Hospital with some severe symptoms that were NOT very pleasant. The doctors ordered many blood tests, then z-rays and a cat scan followed by many more blood tests... still no...
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    Microwave ... caput !

    My wife was cleaning the microwave , then she noticed a modification had occured on it's ceiling... it was a dime size hole right smack in the middle of it's ceiling. It is a GE and over 8 years old, just getting broken in . What the ....? I guess we will be in a market for a new one...
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    Garden update ...

    To solve a very bad draining issue that drowned about half of my plants including a couple trees and 12 blueberry bushes ... for the last 3 months I worked from first light to dark digging ( when not raining ) another meandering creek bed. With the excavated dirt I made several hills. Next , I...
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    2021 Garden Tour

    This last winter, many of my plants drowned due to heavy rains during Dec. and Jan. Also, the State had cut down a mile of cotton wood trees behind our back fence. Since this subdivision was built over a wetlands swamp, boy oh boy did we have water standing on the surface and dead plants here...
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    Rubber mulch

    Has anyone used rubber mulch ( like from Home depot ) for flower beds or kid's play area ? We have 2, 5 year old twin girls as well as 4 neighbor kids ages 3, 6, 9, and 11 that play in our back yard daily. What do you like or dislike about it ? :caf
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    I joined

    Yesterday at high noon I joined the Octo Jerry Ann club. :old Non stop phone calls and people just dropping in with offerings, and liquid refreshments to well past midnight. Today, being lazy. Tomorow, back to work on moving the rest of 4 tons ( 3"-10" diameter) of river rock, then 2 tons of...
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    Claiming tax deductions

    A very common tax deduction claim error is ... when one fills out their tax returns and uses a printout of their medical bills that has several columns showing what the expenses are : doctor / hospital bill, what insurance paid, then what other insurance or another plan paid , etc. , then what...
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    Redo Landscaping

    Since we have a huge increase of rain of last year as well as this year, and the State cut down over a mile of Cottonwood trees,,, we now have a major rain water issue that drowned many of my plants and shrubs. So what to do ? I planted 10 more Japanese Maple red bark trees in the back yard...
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    EGGED

    This morning just after 6:30 am, there was a knock on our door. A police officer asked us if we had any egg damage to our cars or house. You see ... our neighbor's brand new black 3/4 ton pick up, the wife's car as well as his 14.5 ton work dump truck were egged. He has a security camera that...
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    Another scam

    Just before 6am this morning my cell phone rang and woke me up. A male voice recording said that someone had made an order on Amazon using my credit card. If I did not made a transaction for $ 629.98 press #1. A female answered and asked if I had made a purchace for a cell phone from...
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    PRICES

    The new government is changing the rules very rapidly by the day. Here in our small town in SW Washington, we have a large truck driver population. There is one truck parking lot that has a capacity of 112 trucks and is full capacity with waiting list a mile long.. The parking fee was $100...
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    SCAM alert ~

    Two days ago we received our stimulous payment via direct deposit into our bank account. Yesterday, late afternoon, I got a e-message from a accounting firm asking why we haven't spent our money ? They can help us only if we called a phone number that they provided. They are such great...
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    What to plant ?

    We live in SW Washington... our subdivision was built on a former swamp filled in rubble rock and different soils on top of them. The state of Wa. owns the land right behind our back fence, so they installed a drainage channel there for over a mile and a road beyond that channel, and there...
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