the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[DH]

this mouse saga is turning epic..no doubt he's got a whole family living in the walls of chateau havas by this point

[Rome]

I hear Pixar has optioned the saga and has plans for a 2020 release.

[Sgt PSN]

this mouse saga is turning epic..no doubt he's got a whole family living in the walls of chateau havas by this point

Ha!

Speaking of mice, I caught another one in my office yesterday.  First one I've seen in a couple of months.  He made a nice little nest inside an empty drawer of an unoccupied desk.  Didn't realize he was actually in there at first, so myself and one of my Marines had grabbed a trashbag and were starting to clean it out when he popped his head out of a little pile of chewed up paper.  We were able to get him in the trash bag, which we took straight to the dumpster.  I'm sure he's already chewed his way out of the bag by now and hopefully finds a new place to nest besides my office. 

I hate the desert. 

[DH]

i got my car washed at lunch at this new car wash up here right off post..regular process of getting out of the car, letting it go through the machine, then watching 2 mexicans dry it...except the 2 mexicans were 2 halfway decent looking chicks bending and manipulating themselves into all sorts of positions to make sure my car was dry. im going mudding tonight. 

[rjs246]

I was angrily raking a six-month old pile of wet leaves yesterday when the handle of the rake snapped in half and the resulting momentum in my hand caused me to punch myself in the ear.

That is all.

[MDS]

i got my car washed at lunch at this new car wash up here right off post..regular process of getting out of the car, letting it go through the machine, then watching 2 mexicans dry it...except the 2 mexicans were 2 halfway decent looking chicks bending and manipulating themselves into all sorts of positions to make sure my car was dry. im going mudding tonight. 

this is how you celebrate passover?

[Diomedes]

"Hey, I didn't want to break the rake--look at my boxed ear, you think I tried to do that??--but now that it's broke I'm finished.  Make me a sandwich and bring me a beer."

[Sgt PSN]

i got my car washed at lunch at this new car wash up here right off post..regular process of getting out of the car, letting it go through the machine, then watching 2 mexicans dry it...except the 2 mexicans were 2 halfway decent looking chicks bending and manipulating themselves into all sorts of positions to make sure my car was dry. im going mudding tonight. 

this is how you celebrate passover?

I assume you're upset that he spent money. 

[Yeti]

I was angrily raking a six-month old pile of wet leaves yesterday when the handle of the rake snapped in half and the resulting momentum in my hand caused me to punch myself in the ear.

That is all.

ha ha.  this made me laugh.  I was helping out a friend tear a wall in his house down.  He had a crow bar and he had it behind a board at face level pulling towards himself.  It slipped out and he clocked himself right in the head.  I saw it happen and I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes.

[Sgt PSN]

I hit a guy in the head with a crow bar.  Then I buried him between his own walls.

[MMH]

I was angrily raking a six-month old pile of wet leaves yesterday when the handle of the rake snapped in half and the resulting momentum in my hand caused me to punch myself in the ear.

That is all.

Didn't you learn anything from the guy at Lowes?

[Yeti]

I hit a guy in the head with a crow bar.  Then I buried him between his own walls.

snitches get stitches.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

i put out the yeti pucks last night.....no caught mices and poop all around the one trap i put on the floor...i didnt check to see if its still baited but is it possible this farger went in one of those things and was able to get out

IGY, you gotta be doing something wrong. I have them in my garage every Spring, and ever time I put out the sticky traps, I get them inside of 48 hours. I just went out to the garage about twenty minutes ago, and had one struggling in the trap. farg him/her. The trick with any of the traps isn't to put it where you think they are going to traverse, you put it in the "raceways", such as were you see a trail of shtein, or where they have to pass through to get into the food (you can set something like this up with something heavy to force them to go along a certain path). I always put them down the sides of garage, up against the walls. Mice don't like to cross open ground, they will follow walls and stay covered whenever possible.

Another tip is if you come upon them in the trap and they got stuck recently, jostle the trap or go near it. The mouse will struggle more and get more bound up in the trap, which will end things for him faster. For clean up, I usually grab the traps with a set of pliers, and dump them in a bag. If you catch one, set another trap and get rid of the caught mouse ASAP. If the other mice see their homeboy farged up, they won't come near it until it's gone, but will come back after you remove it.

[ice grillin you]

i was just on amazon reading the reviews of the yeti pucks and 99% of them were terrible....a bunch of people said they saw mice going in and out of them or even sitting on top...others said even when they are caught you cant tell because most of the time the indicator reads wrong...i should have never gotten them

i wanna do the sticky traps but i have to convince my girl to go with it...have you ever had luck with any traps other than the sticky ones?

[Yeti]

amazon reviews < somebody who lives on a farm.

what did you bait it with?  It won't feel much heavier when you catch one.  Is the red indictor showing in one of the "mouse caught" windows?

and no, when they go in they don't come out if they go around to the bait.  Set the fargin thing and be patient.