Winter Forecast

[M@]

Here's your big chance to prove you are talented in the ways of meterology.

Credit for this poll goes to NtrentT.

[DMC]

It's all about the the color of the Wooly Bear and how high the bee's nest...
'If the bees' nests are low, no snow. If bees' nests are high, lots of snow,'" (http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105~4746~1629251,00.html)

[Bannick]

Ya see, back in my day we used to forcaast the weather with jars of bear fat on the window sill and a piec of yarn hangin off a swatch of poplar nailed up next to the front door.

If the string was wet it was raining, moving it was windy, frozen cold, gone really windy...etc etc etc.

Seriously tho...my grandpa always said the height of the sunflowers determined the height of the snow. Taller the plant the deeper the snow. Of course grandpa was a drinker and had a stuffed weasel for a pet but hey...family is family. I do know the sunflowers around here are really really tall this year.

[DMC]

stuffed weasel huh?

Does your soon to be fiance' know about this? :)

[Bannick]

He did shoot the weasel himself. But know the girl knows nothing of the grandpa's exploits.

[DMC]

I told my girl up front that my Mom and I used to shoot muskrats that were digging by our pond when we lived in Ohio...
Being a NYC girl - she was slightly apalled until I explained that the muskrat dig holes that horses break their legs in...

[M@]

I told my fiance that I shot a skunk in the garage once with a revolver. But she's from vermont and she understood... some times a skunk just needs killing.

[elwood]

M@:
I told my fiance that I shot a skunk in the garage once with a revolver. But she's from vermont and she understood... some times a skunk just needs killing. Any good vermonter knows this. Sometimes skunks need killin', as well as other creatures. Squirrels, Crows, Shrews, Raccoons, etc...

[BladeGirl]

DMC:
I told my girl up front that my Mom and I used to shoot muskrats that were digging by our pond when we lived in Ohio...
So it wasn't Muskrat Love for you, eh DMC?

-BG

[Bannick]

Shooting skunks in the garage????
That had to be nasty.
I was always told you never want to shoot a skunk
inside or under anything just in case it lets go.
We always lured em out with snacks and then let loose on em.

[DMC]

We have some skunks in my backyard... We live along a cliff that has lots of varmits... Raccon - opossum - cats - woodchucks - skunks...

when I first smelled the skunk I wondered if someone was growing weed on the cliffs... Then I saw the little critters... Eating garbage...

[M@]

That skunk let go. And lemme tell ya, you don't have to be in the line of fire to get stink from a shot skunk. That garage was never the same... and I was a stinker for a good 2 days.

Some things you just gotta learn yourself, you can't be told.

[Bannick]

We had a skunk and a raccon get into it in our backyard last week and the skunk got the raccon under our bedroom window. I blamed it on the girl, rolled over and went back to sleep. :D
Our room still kinda smells.

[elwood]

Bannick:
Shooting skunks in the garage????
That had to be nasty.
I was always told you never want to shoot a skunk
inside or under anything just in case it lets go.
We always lured em out with snacks and then let loose on em. Yeah, you want to shoot a skunk when it is very far from your house. Anytime a skunk dies, it's gonna let loose. I'd rather have the smell of gas and oil in my gararge any day...

[M@]

Speaking of lessons best learnt through expierence, here's another one:

Don't put tin foil in the microwave.

[SkiStooge]

M@: Correction...You should have said "Newver put tin foil in you OWN microwave." lol Have fun, be safe. Al :skistooge:

[M@]

stoogie: Excellent clarification.

About 3 yrs ago a buddy had a "microwave party" where everyone brough stuff to put in a couple old microwaves we were getting rid of. Turns out halogen bulbs were the most fun. Something plastic I think was also melting and expanding as it burned. The most ANTI climactic was the mini propane bottle... I really expected that to just explode, but it kinda just acted like a little flame thrower and melted the side of the microwave.

[M@]

Eggs: That's what it was... put a dozon eggs in a microwave and put it on high for 10 min, then run and tell the home-owner to put the place on the market cause it'll never be the same.

[BladeGirl]

M@:

About 3 yrs ago a buddy had a "microwave party" where everyone brough stuff to put in a couple old microwaves we were getting rid of. We did that at a party in college, but only things that would not damage the microwave. As I recall, a (Hostess?) Ding Dong was pretty amusing, growing to many times its size, with the exterior chocolate thinning and growing white fissures, just waiting for the thing to erupt.

-BG

[DMC]

Damn! I gotta party with you BG...

That sounds like a blast!

[Jolly J]

I'm quite sure marshmellows (sp?) are the solution to world hunger. My son nukes his marshmellows and they grow 6-7 times the size of the orignal.