The Coffee House

[SquarePeg]

On my way to Cataract Surgery this morning for the 2nd eye!!! Will be so glad to have equal vision again.

Good luck on the surgery! Coloring with my 2yo grand daughter today and she picked up a crayon and said red. It was red. Thought of you. Then the next dozen crayons she picked up and said red.

I hope you got a photo of that for this week’s challenge.

Not for the challenge, but did take a few of the little one. She had pink on today. The photo session was cut short when she fell outside and skinned her knee. We were outside a total of 5 minutes. I did get some in the house before the incident.

Hope she’s ok. Blood is red.

 

[smoke665]

We use one of those electric swatters to play ball with the carpenter bees that seem to love our deck. Safer then pesticide, and makes a satisfying ZZZAAAPPPP noise when you hit the sweet spot!

@CheryIL we joke our granddaughter should have been named Grace, because that's the only way she'd have it. Her knees are constantly skinned up.

 

[davidharmier60]

They showed George W. Throw out the first pitch not long after 9-11 before Astros at Detroit.

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[waday]

1- aerosol hairspray will knock down anything that flies or crawls. Usually more handy than bug spray and won’t leave your house quite as toxic smelling.

Bonus tip 1a, if you have a lighter, use it in conjunction with the hairspray to just burn everything and make it all sterile.

 

[smoke665]

if you have a lighter, use it in conjunction with the hairspray

We've used White Rain for years to charge the potato gun. More bang for the buck. LOL

 

[JonA_CT]

A few years ago, this was in the corner of the dining room. I took a few shots then decided to see what it was. Yep, male Black Widow. I figured it was deceased as I shot it with the speedlight at close range, several times and it didn't move. I was getting ready to just pick it up when I thought better and poked it instead. It moved.

Fly swatter fodder.

We use a flip flop around here. A little bit of leverage and a bit of weight, so there's a good thwack.

 

[davidharmier60]

In my part of the world give a spider an inch and it'll take a yard easily.
And on that note I'm saying good night.

 

[limr47]

2 tips

1- aerosol hairspray will knock down anything that flies or crawls. Usually more handy than bug spray and won’t leave your house quite as toxic smelling.

2- mom zapped herself with one of those a few years ago. She said it hurt like a sob. Be careful.

1 - Yup - I've been known to use just about anything in an aeresol can, and if hairspray is handy, I reach for that first. I should get some super strong hold so I can freeze the bugs right out of the air

2 - Already learned that lesson

 

[Gary A.]

Gary tends to escort spiders he finds indoors to the great outside. Spider are very beneficial. Gary likes their webs. But flies are disgusting and have no redeeming value.

For flies and other small insect vermin, Gary uses his Bug-A-Salt. It shoots a load of table salt to devastating effect on flies, slugs, et al. The shot is like a shotgun and creates a pattern, so most often, close is good enough ... marksmanship is of secondary importance.

 

[davidharmier60]

Mentally I feel a bit better this morning.
Gary that looks like a fun toy.
Marquee day. Eagle poops today.
Have a nice Wednesday y'all.

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[snowbear135 66]

She's tracking further south, so it looks good for us - not so much for SC and GA.

 

[waday]

She's tracking further south, so it looks good for us - not so much for SC and GA.

Yeah, look at that shift. Wow, the models really all came together to show it hitting the NC/SC border, then kinda dipping and hooking around to hit west/northwest PA.

 

[smoke665]

Wow, thinking of all our TPF friends on the east coast. Hope all weather storm safely.

On another note, I am experiencing a first for me. I'm sitting here reading my screen WITHOUT glasses. For someone who's spent the last 35 plus years needing progressively stronger and stronger prescriptions, that's nothing short of a miracle for me.

 

[davidharmier60]

I'm led to believe I can't have Lasic
Could no more afford it then flap my arms and fly.
5.44 today 15.3x for the week so far.
She laughed when I said I was subcontionly thinking of 9-11.
Sold my box of pennies.
Need the check to put some gas in my truck. Down at deli just now waiting for it.

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[waday]

Sold my box of pennies.

When you say sold, do you mean exchanged for a higher denomination? Or are you selling the pennies that you found that have some value higher than one cent? What do you do with the pennies that you find? Do you collect them?

I used to collect coins when I was a kid, but usually they were just ones that I liked as opposed to ones that had any value above face value. For example, I liked wheat pennies, but I also liked pennies that were damaged or green. I found a penny that someone pretty much dunked in black paint; I fancied that for a while.