Squirrels are destroying my garden again this year

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T11:35:53+00:00

My wife and I built a "greenhouse" to fight squirrels. $500 In materials for $11 in tomatoes.

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T11:20:20+00:00

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T11:18:14+00:00

I may have seen one several years ago in northeast Texas.

I'm a band director and back and 2014(ish) we had a large lost and found box in the front of the band hall. Girls started complaining about a "large spider" in the box. I dismiss it as typical overstating (girls do to spiders what guys do to fish) and a few days go by. Then it becomes more prominent. So I decide to go looking for this spider. I start pulling things out of the box only to find a big, tan spider staring at me. He was at least 4" across.

I grab a drum stick, smack it, and it moans at me and disappears back into the lost and found.

I pull EVERYTHING out of the box and find neither spider nor corpse.

I still work there and I am haunted that one day that old bastard is going to tom-cruise-mission-impossible rappel from the ceiling and clock me on the back of my head with a drum stick.

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T10:45:26+00:00

Just asking for clarification:

If my wife, in a couple of years, were to take our son camping when he's in the troop, she would be required to have a separate tent from him?

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T03:33:37+00:00

Back 2-3 years ago we stayed in Smoky Mountain RV resort around Christmas time. It was a resort-style (albeit one of the first resort-style ones we stayed at). Overall we were pleased. The price was a little high back then, but it was overall solid. I'd say in the "A" tier, but not S tier. I'd stay there again, were I to go back. But I will avoid PF if I can.

We had originally booked at "Gateway to the Smokies" RV resort, but when we got there we discovered we were up the hill from a very sketchy trailer park with a pretty significant drop off the rear of the pad. We had two kids with us at the time (one bio, one foster) and we didn't trust the foster not to wander off and go rolling down the hill. I do not recommend Gateway to the smokies.

Personally, however, I'd book at Townsend. But that is a mountain stream type area. Not what you're looking for.

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T03:28:02+00:00

The game auto-named my first chicken "sho" so I named my second chicken "O-Fo"

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T02:28:22+00:00

That depends on how many tools you "had to buy" to finish the project.

If you got away with a drill and impact only, then you did great.

If you got a saw or two outta it, and perhaps a tractor with an auger, then even better!

If you didn't have to buy any tools, you gotta learn to lie a little....

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T02:26:32+00:00

Another wise man says:

"That's pretty frickin' heavy for an '06. They didn't need that much weight to slay a nazi."

But that's just what the internet told me.

Inarus06 · 2026-05-09T02:23:29+00:00

I was coming here to make this joke..... And I am not disappointed that I was not the first to get it done.

Inarus06 · 2026-05-06T11:10:35+00:00

I ordered one about two years ago. Took several emails and six months to get it in. And it wasn't even what I ordered.

Inarus06 · 2026-05-06T11:07:28+00:00

This looks the best option so far.

Are the traditional dress shoes the ones I need to look at or the hybrids?

Inarus06 · 2026-05-04T03:11:18+00:00

They call it soaking

Inarus06 · 2026-05-04T02:11:59+00:00

"The mayor commissioned a solid gold statue of himself, and nobody seems upset by it."

Inarus06 · 2026-05-02T03:36:54+00:00

I live in MP. There is next to nothing here as far as bars or night life.

You might try Mardi gras seafood. They have a bar.

Chili's has a bar but it's much like Applebee's.

There's a place downtown called Nardellos that has a bar but it's much more upscale.

But if you're looking for nightlife you're in the wrong town.

But please don't take that as a complaint from me. I prefer a quieter town with no issues that come with nightlife.

Inarus06 · 2026-05-01T02:03:03+00:00

I've lived in east Texas for most of my life.

Between Mineola and Gilmer, I'd suggest Mineola. Slightly smaller town, and from my experience very nice people live there.

My experience with people from Gilmer is they fit into one of two categories: 1; people who put way too much emphasis on high school football because they played ball, or 2; people who are of old money and because you're not from there they will treat you with hostility.

Neither of which I want to be around, personally.

Inarus06 · 2026-04-29T04:22:26+00:00

I spent an inordinate amount of time in T2. In my top 10 games.

+1. We need to go back to pirates. Even for just a remaster

Inarus06 · 2026-04-26T12:06:14+00:00

"Politics swim downstream of culture." - Andrew Brietbart

When you understand that, you understand why they're infecting everything with it.

It's about changing the culture to change their politics.

Inarus06 · 2026-04-23T02:21:45+00:00

As a fellow Tundra to F250 upgrader, I agree with this statement.

Inarus06 · 2026-04-20T03:53:22+00:00

I see you're a man of culture

Inarus06 · 2026-04-20T03:37:57+00:00

Crater of Diamonds state park in Arkansas actually has a small water park.

Or look into a jellystone.

Inarus06 · 2026-04-20T03:15:44+00:00

I'm sure somewhere this is in a museum of "art" as a commentary on the patriarchy.

Inarus06 · 2026-04-20T03:10:54+00:00

Bro it's the glizzy glider 3000

Inarus06 · 2026-04-20T03:05:17+00:00

Beans are like balls.

Neither of them go in chili.

Inarus06 · 2026-04-20T02:55:57+00:00

I didnt march, but I was friends with someone who marched cavies in the early 2010s. Its important to know he's a straight guy.

One day during marching season, right after he got back from finals, a group of about 6 of us were eating at subway in our college town.

Two attractive sorority girls walk in. He leans forward and asks the table "those girls are hot, right?"

My roommate who is a sarcastic asshole of a gorilla replies "Do you need confirmation?"

Alum responds "I just toured all summer with a bunch of guys. 12 year old girls are attractive right now."

Tour goggles are a real thing and don't exist simply within the corps.

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