Twiggyish | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 08:16 pm   I don't know Highlander. Yes, they should play and have fun, but... I also spend quite a bit of time cleaning and soaking clothes. In my daughters case, she has a playground with those black rubber type swing seats and the black gets on her clothes. It is a challenge each time to get them clean! Now since it is her school, I have no choice but to dress her each day in her nicer things. Oh well..such is life. I tell her to enjoy her childhood but please watch those swings! |
Highlander | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 08:29 pm   I guess we all have different priorities. I never went nuts with my kid over clothes. It just was never a priority. What happened happened. |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 08:32 pm   I think is a matter of perspective, not priority. |
Highlander | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 08:34 pm   perspective, priority whatever. Just didnt seem important to me. If you go to camp, you are going to have fun and get dirty. I just never worried about it. |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 09:45 pm   One of those stupid males here. in general we (males) have a different perspective. Remember, 3 pairs of shoes are enough for us! LOL J-Cat, it's good to hear that your daughter is having a great time though. Isn't it great what we are willing to go through to achieve that end, be it issues of clothes or other things? Whatever system works for any given person or family is best to go with. Comfort and all. In the long run, I hope we remember these moments where they have this kind of fun--you can be sure they will remember it! |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 09:47 pm   Oops, sorry--I didn't do any grouching. Ok--darned Delta flights from Salt Lake City to Pasco, WA. I bet I've flown it 20 times and it's never left on time yet. Kind of like United Express from Seattle to Pasco--just never seems to work out. |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 09:47 pm   Bijoux, I just today discovered a great airfare checker site. It found fares for me that the other sites did not. http://www.itasoftware.com/ Check it out and see if it does any good for you.
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Soeur | Tuesday, June 05, 2001 - 10:11 pm   Juju, I'm taking a trip later this month and that link provided some great fare comparisons. Thanks!! |
Wink | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 09:11 am   Damn. There's a mother squirrel with her baby in the big tree outside my window. I can see them eyeing the window boxes. I just know that little bugger is going to bring him over to teach him the finer points of digging for the sake of bloody digging. Arrrggggghhhhhhhh. |
Karuuna | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 09:26 am   Wink - quick! go out and sprinkle some red pepper in your window boxes. Non-toxic, but annoying. And then go out and put up a nice squirrel feeder for the cute little buggers.  |
Wink | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 09:32 am   LOL Karuuna I have pepper, blood meal, human hair, you name it. These guys are ruthless. Feeder!!! I have 2 huge black walnut trees and bird feeders all over the place where they dine. I've even spoken to them very sharply and they mock me. It's one thing to actually BURY the walnuts in the window boxes but at this time of year they are only practicing digging. |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 09:50 am   Momma Squirrel to Junior: You see that buggy-eyed lady behind the glass, son? Watch what she does when I go over and dig in that little box outside the glass.
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Fruitbat | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:04 am   <laughing hysterically> Juju! |
Wink | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:04 am    |
Bijoux | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:05 am   Thanks Juju for the link. I was on three different airfare sites yesterday and this one beats them all. Easier to use and provides a lot of information all together. Great site. It also put a wrench in my plans to fly a day earlier (a Saturday) when airfares were cheaper and would allow me to have some time to relax. The airfare savings were just about enough to cover the hotel for one night and I would have time to go visit my cousin who lives near Chicago. I'll probably go earlier anyway and cough up the hotel room myself. Lance - That's your worst airline gripe! I'll post later on airline horror stories. |
Wink | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:06 am   Bijoux never mind the travel plans!!! Focus on the freaking squirrels. |
Grooch | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:15 am   Better be careful w/ the squirrel talk. Moon may not be around, but she'll be back. I love my squirrel. He gets on my roof and screams whenever there is a cat hiding in the bushes waiting to get one the birds at the feeder. My own personal alarm sysytem. My grouch, People should get their cats fixed or keep them inside. So neighborhoods aren't filled w/ tons of homeless cats. |
Bijoux | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:16 am   err, never had a problem with squirrels. I did have a neighbor once who raised rabbits, badly. They kept getting out and eating the plants I was struggling to grow in my garden. She finally gave up and just let the rabbits roam wild. We had a wild rabbit pack marauding all over the place for weeks after that. |
Wink | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:25 am   Bijoux we have trouble with bunnies also but I find the human hair seems to work on them. Of course I don't grow veggies but they did like the tender new stuff of the cosmos and other fragile stemmed plants. |
Wink | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:29 am   Grooch I love the squirrels also, which is why we haven't cut down the black walnuts (they are an extremely messy tree) and I leave lots of things for them to eat. I also have several gardens they are welcome to dig in. I just want them to stay the hell out of my windowboxes. |
Grooch | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 10:40 am   Wink, are that crazy lady w/ 60 windowboxes? One thing I'm trying w/ the cats is laying the rose cuttings where they like to hide, to make it uncomfortable for them. So now they lay on top of my plants and squash them. Oh well, at least they're more in the open now. |
Jetticat | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 11:06 am   I have also heard to use a tobasco/water mix & spray it on the plants. Is supposed to work with cats too.... Wild cats! That's a touchy subject. My neighbor keeps feeding them and has even made them a little house. They have gone under my house & torn the insulation and even one of those shiney tubes carrying heat to the kitchen. I didn't close the door leading into the crawl space, but that doesn't excuse the fact that the neighbors continue to feed and house these cats. To top it off....their house is up for sale! We'll be left with wild cats! The final straw was when one of them jumped Jetson (my namesake). She was spayed and declawed when we got her (at 2 yrs old) 7 years ago. I totally flipped! |
Fruitbat | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 11:13 am   Bijioux/Juju...can you post the travel link you speak of again? I went in the archives of this thread and couldn't find it. May be someplace else. |
Bijoux | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 11:35 am   Here's the link Fruitbat. http://www.itasoftware.com/ |
Wink | Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 11:55 am   Grooch it's only 20 windowboxes and I am not . Thanks for the tip Jetticat I'll try that. Sorry to disrupt the travel flow Fruit. |