This was weird! – I ordered some bedsheets. My husband had gotten a coupon which I used. It was expired but it worked. However, that triggered the order to have my husband’s email address instead of mine (which I didn’t realize at first). I never received a confirmation email. I looked at my credit card account, and it went through. After a couple days of nothingness, I called. Yep, they could see it. They don’t know why my husband didn’t get an email. (Maybe he did and thought it was junk!) They fixed everything. I received a notice that I would receive it in two days. I checked FedEx and they HAD the package. They gave me a delivery date. Then I received an email from the company saying there was a problem that will be resolved by June 15th. ??? I received the package just like FedEx said I would. I wonder what will happen in June.
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Argh! – We had a hard frost this week. It happened just as my young locust trees were pushing out new growth. Within a day the new stuff was limp and black. I was heartbroken. I had planted both several years ago. They are large, beautiful trees. I’m getting old. I don’t have time to wait until new ones grow. Within a few days new growth has started to peep through. They may be stunted for a bit but I’m hopeful they will make it. Those were the only trees that got nipped.
A happy reunion – I picked up my car after 10 days at the body shop. It was a delightful reunion. We celebrated with a Starbucks run (for me — the car does not drink coffee! It drinks something far more expensive). I’m not a car person but I like the old and comfortable. Perhaps absence does make the heart grow fonder.
Beating them down yet again – This week we had our third ant invasion of the year. I haven’t called the exterminator yet. I did what he did using the same products. It seems to work better when you pay a couple of hundred dollars but I’m managing it. If it happens one more time, maybe I’ll call for a treatment.
Down the rabbit hole again – I did another deep dive into researching old friends, mostly through obits. I found another old boyfriend who passed away 10 years ago. There was a picture and he looked the same with a full head of hair that was probably gray instead of the blonde it used to be. He was a friend from 50 years ago and I haven’t seen him in 30. He was married with four (adult) kids. That was a shocker. He never expressed interest in kids when I knew him, but he was just starting his career. He quit a well-paying stable job to become an entrepreneur and did very well. You need a certain type of personality for that and he had it. I also found information on an old friend who is still alive. She was (maybe still is) mercurial and exhausting but fun. I’m debating on whether at this point I want to reach out to her. We’ll see. I may be past the stage where I like crazy friends.
So how was your week?
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I’m glad you’ve found info on some old friends. I never look.
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I don’t look often because I always find. I was happy to see an old friend who is mid-80s still active and gorgeous as ever!
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My week was not as good as yours! While I finished a final review/edit of my book manuscript, my Indiana allergies have been on fire! Yikes . . . . .
I hope your kitties are not allergy-prone! Gotta’ love those Kitties!
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Gus sometimes has allergies. I give him a small dose of Zyrtec and it helps!
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We used to have ant issues. Someone suggested putting cinnamon on the counters and floors by doors. It worked! I’m not sure how cats are with cinnamon but it seems better than chemicals.
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I did a lot of homemade remedies two years ago. Everything works for a short time but they come back. I don’t think the cinnamon kills them but repels them. The ones we have are tenacious little buggers.
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Ants are a pain. We have had a few sneak in and they have not left the building to tell their mates. Since having the new flooring, we can see them better and pounce, making sure there are no crumbs or food particles of interest to them. We have sprayed and puffed the usual stuff and will be using grated lemon rind and chrysanthemum petals as a next plan of attack if needed. After they really invaded (the bedroom, lounge, bathroom and kitchen) two years ago and I lost it in the kitchen, I am almost, but not quite, paranoid about the blighters.
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They seem to like my back kitchen counter. I don’t prepare food there but it’s still the kitchen! We sprayed outside but couldn’t see where they come in.
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Likewise, they are sneaky! We think some came in on Maya’s feet or our shoes from the garden, but that year they literally teemed in and were everywhere.
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Annoying little buggers.
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Yep!
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Having pets makes ants more likely–they’ve got food and poison is problematic. Having men also makes ants more likely–they eat a lot and leave crumbs everywhere.
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I agree with both. I have ants on the front box window. There is no water or food there. That one baffles me. I used to get them on the office window and I couldn’t figure that one out until I did a deep clean. Gracie had barfed down the side of the shelf and although it was hard and dry at this point, it was attracting them.
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Try the dead chrysanth petals in your window box. We used them in the greenhouse and it seems to work.
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It’s a box window meaning it extends out from the house. Not a flower box on the outside of the window. Whatever I do has to be cat friendly. They get their nose in everything.
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Oh. Some plants are poisonous to cats, I know lilies are and chrysanths may be too. What about the lemon rind? Though I think cats don’t like citrus on their feet.
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I don’t know if that will kill them or just keep them away for a while.
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Here’s my take on the ant dilemma. There are multiple colonies living near your house. Every so often, a colony decides to come inside and look for goodies! When the scouts find something promising, they immediately report back and the endless stream begins.
This is my method of dealing with the situation. I buy a large container of boric acid powder at the drug store, and prepare dinner for them. I mix a spoonful (no specific measurement) with some sugar (also no exact measurement) in a little water, and leave little pools of it here and there where they seem to be hanging out. They lap it up, take it back to the nest and within three days there is not an ant to be seen.
NOTE: This will have to be repeated every so often as other colonies check out your kitchen.
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I worry about setting out anything my cats can get into. With commercial traps the cats can’t get into the poison although I still worry about them eating a poisoned ant. We didn’t have any ants the first 3 years we lived here but they must have heard about how wonderful it is to live here. There are a lot of ant hills in the mulch. I should probably treat that and maybe that’s the difference with an exterminator. Generally speaking I don’t like chemicals.
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I don’t like using any harsh poisons either.
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We have tried to source boric acid to do the same, but no luck. Grated lemon rind and dead chrysanth petals were successful for us.
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It works for me. I’ve been using it several years now.
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Well now you’ve had an interesting week! I often wonder about my friends from long ago but as a “service brat” we never lived in any one place long enough to have made really GOOD friends. As soon as you’d get close you’d have to move. BUT as a Senior in high school I did make one friend who I am still in touch with. She’s lost her husband in the interim and gained a lot of weight but she “sounds” in email just the same as she did way back in ’65. We have had cold weather AGAIN. Eighty five one day then 48 the next. Plants are confused – so are we!
Hugs, Pam
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I was fortunate. Only the locust trees were nipped. I don’t have annual flowers out yet but it didn’t bother the creeping flax out front. The extremes are really annoying. I don’t know how to dress from one day to the next but the next week will be cool so back into wool socks!
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In June, the company will tell you that the coupon was expired. 😀
As for Starbucks vs. Gas . . . a gallon of gas ($4) is way cheaper than a gallon of Starbucks coffee.
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Our gas is much more the $4 here. I get more mileage out of my coffee.
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I hate not having my own car. I don’t like driving anyway, but driving a car other than my own, no thank you. An acquaintance of mine, a pet sitting pal, died a few days ago…saw her obit in the paper. She’s only 5 years older than I am…,makes you think (or worry).
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Many of my friends have passed especially the guys. Yes, makes me worry not only for myself but for those around me.
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Thinking of sending your locust trees candy and flowers. This weather is too nutty, so nutty Mother nMature is working against herself as I sit here in two sweaters. Let’s hope April showers bring May flowers is not just another rumor. sigh
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I’m back in wool socks! It is cold and damp here. The week will be unseasonably cool too. Sigh!
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I’ll inform my sweats. sigh
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