Archive through June 08, 2001

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Moondance

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 11:57 am Click here to edit this post
LOL Juju...

I am with Momma squirrel... you go girl and dig to your hearts content!

Grooch

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 12:01 pm Click here to edit this post
Wink, next year use chicken wire on top of the planters. The plants grow through them, and the squirrels will be annoyed and leave them alone.

(Only 20, that's more than enough. :))

Wink

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 12:21 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks Grooch but the chicken wire isn't an option. The plants in the boxes aren't growing from seed. That works well in the tulip planting hole but try squeezing an 8" Martha Washington geranium thru the holes. Not a pretty picture.

And Miss Moon the little buggers don't need any encouragement from you and JuJu but I will pass on your message.

Grooch

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 12:28 pm Click here to edit this post
How about razor blades standing up on end, so when they start to dig......


(I'm only joking Moon!)

Wink

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 12:47 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL Grooch I think you are in a heap of trouble now.

Grooch

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 12:58 pm Click here to edit this post
I know, but I couldn't resist. :)

Besides, if she says anything, I say that I was testing you and that you laughed and weren't outraged by it. Thereby turning her attention on you.

(Now I need to wait 10 minutes before posting this, so you can't change your reply.)

Wink

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 01:08 pm Click here to edit this post
Very crafty of you. Now I have another Grouch Grooch. This board is taking forever to load for me so I'm going away again for awhile. Is it slow for anyone else? The little buggers have probably been chewing on the cable line too.

Grooch

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 01:22 pm Click here to edit this post
It has been very slow.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 01:35 pm Click here to edit this post
Just to stir the pot a little more..... I feed the squirrels cracked corn, much to the horror of my husband. (seriously) They come from miles around. They love me. I make them clothes too. They won't even try them on but I am sure they appreciate it.

Wink

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 01:46 pm Click here to edit this post
OMG Fruitcake I am peeing my pants here.

Moondance

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 01:48 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL Bat!

RAZOR BLADES? Hmmmmm those are fightin' words SuperG! And you Winks, going along with it! Well, I will just commission MsBat out and she will make camouflage outfits with mini nut guns for MsSquirrel and attack those pretty little boxes!

Jetticat

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 02:10 pm Click here to edit this post
O.K., this turtle pace of the site is grouchy.
Fruit, clothes? Like the one's Cinderella made for the mice?:) Why is it the mice are the only ones who talk? None of the other animals did.
My daughter came home pretty clean today. She lost a tooth last night & caught me doing the Tooth Fairy gig. Since she's figured it out, I showed her all of her old teeth. It made her feel special. My baby is growing up so fast!! Now, THAT'S a grouch!

Dilligaf

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 02:20 pm Click here to edit this post
Fruitbat!!! You're back!! :)

Fruitbat

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 02:32 pm Click here to edit this post
Hi Dilli. :) Jetticat...I make them GAP style clothes. Those waiscoats are out even for squirrels. The squirrels talk too, but only to me.

Grooch

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 02:34 pm Click here to edit this post
Dilli, is that a grouch you just posted?

Jetticat

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 02:36 pm Click here to edit this post
Lol! Do they like capri pants with the straight or flaired leg?
You're too funny! Did you see "The Emperor's New Groove?" The big guy who cooked spinach puffs talked to squirrels too!:)

Fruitbat

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 02:44 pm Click here to edit this post
low rise, boot cut.

Bijoux

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 04:15 pm Click here to edit this post
My general grouch at airlines has to do with poor customer service. A few of the stories are kinda long though since they involve a series of blunders, so I'll post them in my folder in the members area.

Gail

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 04:25 pm Click here to edit this post
I will make a mention to Neil about the slowness of the board. We are picking up more and more traffic each day since BB Autralia started and as we get closer to Big Brother USA. We moved up to #11 on the Reality Top 100.

Jetticat

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 04:26 pm Click here to edit this post
I hate it that they don't serve peanuts. I think that you should get a choice!
Here's a funny one, my mom still has a spoon or fork around with the Delta emblem on it. She swiped it when I was a little girl.:)

Moondance

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 04:52 pm Click here to edit this post
Gail, do you think it could be some of the uploaded clipart... just a thought... there were quite a few posted yesterday... of course it could be this Mercury retrograde too... it started the 4th:)

Gail

Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 05:44 pm Click here to edit this post
Moon, I am not sure if the web servers fall under the stars (I sure felt it yesterday though) but I suspect there are a few factors. One, there are a lot of posts on the board (I think close to 50,000 give or take a few). That is a lot of posts for the servers to wade through. (During BB last year, I kept the total posts to around 20,000 if that gives you an idea)

I don't know if anyone else beside me, Whit and Lance are watching but we have been steadily climbing up the Reality TV Top 100 list from somewhere in the mid 20's last month to #11 this week. We have also been increasing our membership at a pretty steady climb ever since Australian Big Brother started and with all the interest in Big Brother USA growing.

Keep in mind, that except for the Member's Area which requires a username and account to view, most all the other areas of the board are viewable from the rest of the internet and generate traffic.

There may be a few things that Neil can do from our end (I posted a few suggestions for him to check out).

I know that during BB last year, there were a few things that we didn't do - one was the pictures in the profiles - they take up disk space. Not sure if that will be available as we grow or not. I don't know for sure if the current clipart (and crazy fonts) slows us down or not. I know that we had that little smiley waving last year and we had to get rid of him because he took up too much space.

I am on a broadband connection and feel the slowness too. I wasn't sure if it was the board or my unreliable service. Probably a combination of both.

Twiggyish

Thursday, June 07, 2001 - 08:05 am Click here to edit this post
The post office is changing our mailing address. This means we have to change business cards and we have to inform every one of our contacts. The postmasters will kindly forward mail for a few weeks and then kindly return incorrectly addressed mail thereafter. *sigh*

Jetticat

Thursday, June 07, 2001 - 10:29 am Click here to edit this post
They did that at my parents house when I was growing up. What a pain!

Max

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 11:53 pm Click here to edit this post
ARGH!!! I had made arrangements for a housecleaner to come to my home today and make things gorgeous in preparation for my mother's arrival on Sunday. It's the first time I've hired anyone like this and she was recommended highly by a friend at work. When I talked to her to set it up, she seemed very nice and professional. I told her I wouldn't be home until late tonight, so if she came in the late afternoon, that would be fine. I made arrangements for her to start coming on a regular basis every other week, too.

I got home around 8:30 eagerly anticipating a nice clean house. I had straightened everything up last night to make it easy for her to do her thing. What do I find? Nothing. She didn't come. She didn't call. Zip, nada, zilch except for the dirty floors, dusty shelves, and so forth.

I'm SOOOO mad! I tried calling her and only got her machine. I left a nice, polite message asking what happened and requesting that she call me back. Nothing. I called several times this evening--just the machine.

Now I have to spend all day tomorrow trying to clean this place instead of washing my car and applying a fresh coat of wax or doing a variety of other things I had planned.

Back to square one. ARGH!!!!!