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WannaDig3687 said:
Good to know, Bart. We have a huge problem with the wasps nesting under the deck.
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Make assaults under the cover of darkness. The cooler the night ,the better.
(Look out for spiders after reading Hutches posts, blahh ;shudder.)

Bees ,hornets can be "Lined" to locate nests/hives.
Old timers would make a little wood box baited with a dab of honey and containing talc to increase visibility .
The bee loads up ,and heads for "home". The talc making it appear a white streak in flight.
Going to where bee was last seen the process would be repeated.

Hornets like to gnaw wood fibers off my old deck for making nest paper.
Harder to line them just by watching , but in time they are headed the same direction. Problem is there's usually multiple nests different directions!

The bumble bees hit flowers and were nesting a couple houses down. I'd line them by eye but didn't go past my property looking for more.
The current queen over winters somewhere , then starts a new colony come spring. Mole tunnels get used sometimes. Same with ground nesting yellow jackets.
Those ground nesters take close observation after lining them.
Then I mark the hole with a vertical stick near (not too near!) , and gently lob a contrasting(with the ground cover) twig near the hole to be able to find it at night for the assault.

Been stung plenty of times in my youth. Had a knack for finding stinging critters without trying.

The last hornet sting was from killing them with my hat. Then putting my hat back on with a live one in it.
Like another recent sting , my arthritis subsided...

Which brings up story time!
A friend now deceased visited the Doctor about his arthritis.
Doc. said honey bee venom had been found to be a relief for some people, but carried the risk of reduced fertility in men.
My friend told the Doc, I'm over seventy years old! Not really planning on having any more kids." :laughing7:
I don't like putting chemicals on soil. But I certainly hose a ground nest opening with wasp/hornet killer....
 

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rook3434 said:
No bird in there I see.
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Geesh! Sorry, Rook. :-\ I always forget someone. :tongue3:

Good morning! :weee:

One of the first garage sales I went to, after moving back to Ohio, I bought a box full of cards just because I saw this old card game in it. The cards looked antique and I had never heard of the game. Yep, it is Rook. I never did learn how to play it. I still have the card game. That was over 30 years ago, so it is definitely in the vintage range by now.
 

releventchair said:
Make assaults under the cover of darkness. The cooler the night ,the better.
(Look out for spiders after reading Hutches posts, blahh ;shudder.)

Bees ,hornets can be "Lined" to locate nests/hives.
Old timers would make a little wood box baited with a dab of honey and containing talc to increase visibility .
The bee loads up ,and heads for "home". The talc making it appear a white streak in flight.
Going to where bee was last seen the process would be repeated.

Hornets like to gnaw wood fibers off my old deck for making nest paper.
Harder to line them just by watching , but in time they are headed the same direction. Problem is there's usually multiple nests different directions!

The bumble bees hit flowers and were nesting a couple houses down. I'd line them by eye but didn't go past my property looking for more.
The current queen over winters somewhere , then starts a new colony come spring. Mole tunnels get used sometimes. Same with ground nesting yellow jackets.
Those ground nesters take close observation after lining them.
Then I mark the hole with a vertical stick near (not too near!) , and gently lob a contrasting(with the ground cover) twig near the hole to be able to find it at night for the assault.

Been stung plenty of times in my youth. Had a knack for finding stinging critters without trying.

The last hornet sting was from killing them with my hat. Then putting my hat back on with a live one in it.
Like another recent sting , my arthritis subsided...

Which brings up story time!
A friend now deceased visited the Doctor about his arthritis.
Doc. said honey bee venom had been found to be a relief for some people, but carried the risk of reduced fertility in men.
My friend told the Doc, I'm over seventy years old! Not really planning on having any more kids." :laughing7:
I don't like putting chemicals on soil. But I certainly hose a ground nest opening with wasp/hornet killer....
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Well, it's Mr WD's responsibilty, but I will pass it on. He does spray them after dark. Those big fat bumble bees are in the ground all over this farm. They chase me 10 -20 times a year. I will try the sticks.
Our deck has a patio underneath. I don't know what you call this, but there is siding like that is under the whole deck. It is sloped so that water can run down to the spouts. Well, the wasps love that deck. Like we built it just for them! The dawn dish soap and water sounds like a great idea: wash the deck, kill the wasp, and it all drains away.

When my son was about 4 yrs. old, he stepped on a bee. Well, it made him cry and thus ticked him off! I fix him all up and we go back outside. He gets his butterfly net and starts trying to catch them. I told him, "You better stop you're going to get stung, again." No sooner than I say it he catches one in the net and proceeds to squish the life out of it between his fingers. He is stung again. I say, "See, I told you so." He is hopping around holding his thumb with his other hand, pulling on it and saying (in a 4 yr old can't pronounce the words way), "Di int hulrt! Di int hulrt! Di int hulrt!" He didn't cry that time. He gave up catching them, too. He was mad because the bee hurt him the first time and I guess he thought it was the same bee and wasn't going to give that bee the satisfaction of knowing he got hurt again. LOL. The very next week, he gets stung again. We end up in the emergency room because he is in anaphylactic shock. Too much bee venom tipped him over the edge. Had to carry an epi-pen for him until he was out on his own.
 

WannaDig3687 said:
Geesh! Sorry, Rook. :-\ I always forget someone. :tongue3:

Good morning! :weee:

One of the first garage sales I went to, after moving back to Ohio, I bought a box full of cards just because I saw this old card game in it. The cards looked antique and I had never heard of the game. Yep, it is Rook. I never did learn how to play it. I still have the card game. That was over 30 years ago, so it is definitely in the vintage range by now.
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WD
We use to play with 4 people. Most of the time we tried to use the same partner. That way you have grown to know what play he would make in any given situation. I remember " Shooting the moon". That's when you and partner go for it all winning all the hands. If you don't, you loose the the game. We did that a lot. Played for a dollar a game in those days. It is a great game. The Rook card and the Red 1 are the two most valuable cards in the deck.
 

rook,
Yep there's an Irish champ I believe that does the run on a fairly regular basis.....but kind of like bowling 300 or golfing par not for your average player.



rook3434 said:
I really consider it a great little card game. Growing up and not having much to do in the summer months we would all assemble at the local pool hall to play Rook and shoot Snooker. I've got two friends of mine that have run the snooker table from the break and if you know anything about the game you would know that's extremely extremely hard to do.
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Thought I would share... this was from my Hard Rock Casino days...

Great DJ... man o man those nights were out of this world.

Good times... ehhhhh great times actually.

PRE recession.

 

Different version... there are many...

 

Blak bart said:
The other island trick is to paint your eaves sky blue....they wont make a nest if your eaves are sky blue. Dont know why but it works !!
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Evening all... although it's just about bedtime here.

Interesting. When we toured the Deep South a while ago, they told us that a particular shade of green-blue paint was needed, known as "haint blue". We were told it's called that because it "hain't really green and hain't really blue neither". That turned out to be a local-yokel joke... the name derives from voodoo use of the colour as protection and the hanging of blue bottles in trees to trap 'haints' (or 'haunts': evil spirits).

I did a little research after we got home and there seems to be no scientific evidence that it works... except that some colours (notably yellow) can attract insects, so by painting in blue you are avoiding colours such as yellow and maybe indirectly tipping the odds in your favour
 

Goodnight... time to get horizontal.

C U N AM
 

Ok now I really go... off to see the wizard !

Yo ho ho me hearties ! ! !

and a bottle of Rum and some female company never hurt anyone too badly.

:)
 

Over there, over there
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming
The Yanks are coming
The drums rum-tumming
Everywhere
So prepare, say a prayer
Send the word, send the word to beware
We'll be over, we're coming over
And we won't come back till it's over
Over there








Over paid, Over sexed, and Over There! :laughing7:
 

bill
Enjoyed the snooker video. By the way for folks not familiar with the game, the table is one foot longer and 6” wider than a standard pool table. The pockets are a lot narrower than the pool table. I remember a company would send a table leveling tech every so often to level and make sure the felt was ok. Those were the days.
 

I have never tried that dish soap trick Bart. Looks good. I use a Hornet's spray because it has some distance to it, but I always dread when t is around one of the vehicles because I don't want to peel the paint off one of them.
 

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