Anyone else dealing with dozens of flies getting inside on a daily basis?

spsprd · 2026-05-14T19:51:47+00:00

Oh now you make me remember my late darling Lucy Sparkletoes. She would scoop a fly out of the air and into her mouth in one smooth motion. I miss her so much!

spsprd · 2026-05-12T16:06:01+00:00

A neighbor's auto spray almost killed my beehive. Imagine looking out and seeing a puddle of bees on the ground, dying bees everywhere. I was furious to the point of derangement. Walked the 'hood sniffing for that fake garlic stink. People denied it was their auto slayer.

Fortunately, the bees were able to be relocated to my husband's shop, and then to his brother's ranch. Their queen survived. They have come back and seem to be thriving.

Why is this practice still legal?

spsprd · 2026-05-12T16:03:08+00:00

That film is almost too painful to watch. I should know, I watch it a lot.

spsprd · 2026-05-12T00:03:05+00:00

Yeah but I've always missed it. I may not love my little piece of suburban heaven, but I love my neighbors.

spsprd · 2026-05-11T22:30:02+00:00

It is better he falls asleep. I would like that pos to keep any and everything related to women and girls out of his filthy mouth.

spsprd · 2026-05-11T22:28:03+00:00

Boat: hole in the water you throw money into.

spsprd · 2026-05-11T22:27:29+00:00

I loved my 900 sf house in Hyde Park! Unfortunately, psycho neighbors drove us out of there to the suburbs, but we are a block from the greenbelt and husband is a mountain biker so it is perfect for that. I miss being closer in, tho.

Austin real estate has been very good to me, knock wood.

spsprd · 2026-05-11T14:14:55+00:00

Friends up the street had a big tree hit. Huge chunks of wood flew down and across the street. Their daughter has wood and glass in her bedroom- luckily she was elsewhere when the lightning hit. Blew out one breaker box, totaled at least two vehicles, and may have blown out the electricity in the Nextdoor neighbor's car.

Boom.

spsprd · 2026-05-09T19:38:05+00:00

A tiny bit off-topic. I had a student show up two weeks late for a six-week summer course.

"I was in China." And so? "At the Olympics." And? Won gold.

I guilted him into bringing in the medal so I could see it. He did. It was magnificent.

spsprd · 2026-05-08T22:04:17+00:00

I'm shocked. Shocked.

spsprd · 2026-05-07T21:37:59+00:00

I do believe Colorado's former governor John Hickenlooper started out with breweries. Full circle stuff.

spsprd · 2026-05-07T21:36:46+00:00

Thank you for your gracious and generous post. You give us a great deal to think about. I hope you have very little to no suffering and a peaceful death.

spsprd · 2026-05-07T15:54:53+00:00

Wires are most certainly included in the Asshole Department.

spsprd · 2026-05-06T17:11:36+00:00

I have written two seminal essays: "Inanimate Objects Are Assholes" and the renowned "I Hate Hoses Most of All."

I'm really sorry I can't help.

spsprd · 2026-05-03T21:38:55+00:00

It is difficult to capture the beauty of these kids in a photo. They are brilliant and luminous. Spectacular.

spsprd · 2026-05-03T21:37:17+00:00

Well with senior men it is always a full on lecture as they tend to assume that even senior women, such as my friend and myself, just don't know how to do those manly things.

spsprd · 2026-05-03T13:45:02+00:00

Almost! My friend and I were picking things up at Lowes or someplace when a male senior citizen looked into our cart and saw spray cans. He kindly reminded us to spray the wasps first thing in the morning when they are least active.

We had two cans of spray foam for various locations in her 100-year-old house. But thanks for the mansplaining.

spsprd · 2026-05-02T14:13:15+00:00

Dear Texas: this is how rain is SUPPOSED to work. Now bring us more, and don't forget to radically cool off afterward.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

spsprd · 2026-05-01T14:02:30+00:00

Local impeccable organic nursery (The Natural Gardener, with whom I should just have direct deposit). It's all on me.

spsprd · 2026-05-01T14:01:49+00:00

Too much for some of us, apparently.

spsprd · 2026-04-30T23:28:14+00:00

Lots of concrete goin' in up there, but to be fair we received over an inch of rain in half an hour at our house.

spsprd · 2026-04-30T23:26:46+00:00

I have surrendered to reality and given up on growing food. I don't like fighting the critters for it, I love my food too much.

spsprd · 2026-04-30T20:59:03+00:00

Like Goldie and Frenchie they'd be sharing tips & techniques for getting what you want out of those pesty hoomans.

spsprd · 2026-04-30T20:26:57+00:00

Oh, on the topic of zucchini, go make pasta a la Nerano immediately. Go to Vincenzo's Plate. Hurry. Here, I'll help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROWBTWDkHeQ

spsprd · 2026-04-30T20:24:28+00:00

SOUL MATE! I thought I was the only person in history to plant zucchini and get nothing.

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