Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

When my Grandmother found a scorpion in the living room in Miami one Sunday she took the Miami Herald and put that on top of the scorpion before she stepped on it.

I'll confess to an almost phobia where scorpions are concerned. I think I was 5 or 6 years old when, something stung me one night in bed. I thought it must be a wasp in the house, so I pulled the covers up over my head, and then got stung on the one hand that wasn't completely covered, so I pulled that hand under the covers, too. And when I got stung the 3rd time and realized that something is under these covers with me, I got out of bed yelling. Mother & Dad came running in, turned on a light, and there was a scorpion on my pillow. I never forgot that. So when we moved into a new house in 1972 that had just been built in what had been a pasture, and the first or second night in that house, I killed one scorpion on a wall and one on the floor, and the next day I had professional exterminator out there and never saw another scorpion.

 

[ronjhall]

One thing I like about scorpions, Rock You Like A Hurricane, oh wait, wrong Scorpions...nah, there's nothing I like about scorpions!

We found out our dog (my avatar) is a Scorpion Hunter. 2 times while visiting jinman she tracked them down in his house. They must have a smell that she could track. Would raise a ruckus until someone came and disposed of it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I refuse to participate in the weather channel's naming of every cloud.

 

[toppop52]

I refuse to participate in the weather channel's naming of every cloud.

I just saw Billy Jean float by!

 

[toppop52]

Toppop looking forward to photos of the new tractor

Me too! Some kind of issue with his chicken house waterers and he's apparently been at it all day. I told him to caqll me when he gets straight, it's 125 miles each way and I want his undivided attention.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Someone could make a living being a medical insurance concierge, handling all this paperwork and acting as a patient advocate.

At some point, I'm going to need such a person. No family to do it for me when I'm no longer to do it for myself. Tried to find a professional fiduciary a couple years back, but it turned out she was partnered with an unscrupulous attorney and I ended up not trusting either one. Haven't checked recently, but at that time, she was the only one in the county.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Most of us older public schoolers walked miles to schools in the sub zero freezing cold, ice and snow, going uphill both ways

Yeah, and you were lucky if you had shoes. We didn't.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Well the car is now almost 7 years old and still 4500 miles shy of that first BMW oil change. Yep just over 10,000 I personally don't like driving it.

Oil should be changed yearly at a minimum, as acids form from the combustion products that are very hard on engine components. And if it's got an automatic transmission, the fluid and filter should be changed at least every three years, both changes regardless of mileage or what some idiot computer under the hood says.

BMW used to recommend much shorter fluid change intervals during the three year, 36,000 mile warranty. When they started including the fluid changes at no charge during the warranty, the intervals got much longer for some reason.:confused2: If all you want is to trade the car back in for a new one at the end of the warranty, BMW's strategy makes sense. But if you want to get 100,000 or 200,000 out of it, 5,000 mile oil changes and old school intervals for the rest of the fluids will get you there. The factory intervals will likely not.

 

[rswyan]

Closet door framed in and the casing is hung ... just trying to locate the half of the hinges that should have been on the casing.

Found one, only two more to go.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

when we moved into a new house in 1972 that had just been built in what had been a pasture, and the first or second night in that house, I killed one scorpion on a wall and one on the floor, and the next day I had professional exterminator out there and never saw another scorpion.

I don't think I'd last long in Texas, Bird. Never saw a scorpion of any kind until I moved into this house. The first winter I found one on the bedroom wall, and killed it with a slipper. It was almost transparent, and folks up here call them bark scorpions. Found another one in the master bath the next year, and that spring I went around the house using up about five tubes of caulk filling every crack I could find. Haven't seen one since, but do find an occasional millipede or Mormon cricket, and would sure like to know how they're getting in!