Comments on: Re: Leading Off (Squirrel Item)

By: mm

mm — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:44:03 +0000

Chris Chris’ favorite beverage is going away… http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/millercoors_quietly_kills_zima

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:35:59 +0000

Lakewoody: I didn’t buy my house to impress anyone. I doubt many people would be impressed by a humble cottage anyway. It was a distressed property in a conservation district when I bought it in 1990. I happen to enjoy living a modest lifestyle on a smaller scale in an older home. I’m currently restoring the home in a historically-sensitive manner. I only stated the costs to show why squirrel damage can drive a normally peaceful person to kill, not to invoke jealousy among “the masses”. By the way, I wasn’t trying to make any point with that last post. I was just trying to inject a little humor…

By: Mama Bear

Mama Bear — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:30:03 +0000

I am late seeing this, obviously. Tim, I will get both kids, the gun, the ammo and change the locks before you get home tonight. Have fun with JW at the range this weekend. Learning about “gun safety.”

By: Lakewoody

Lakewoody — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:19:53 +0000

Good point Randy but no one cares how much your new stucco gables cost, the cost or your new roof, or what type of house you bought. That has no impact on the story at hand. Great story, but no need include prices. That is something “Chris Chris” would do as he wants the masses to be impressed with the money he spends on certain things.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:06:27 +0000

Lakewoody and mm: Is this any better?

I had a problem. Squirrels ripped holes in my house. I killed them. They died alone.

Is that how Hemingway would have written it?

By: Lakewoody

Lakewoody — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:32:14 +0000

Thank you mm and well put.

By: dallasachiever

dallasachiever — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:11:28 +0000

Love it. I know this seems cruel, but we’ve had like 50 of them in our backyard and the babies seem to get rabies and attack our dogs. So, I got one of those cute lil squirrel chairs where you put a corn cob on and they can eat and sit. First you get them hooked on the whole chair with corn salon approach. THEN, do a mixture of food on the base. It’s a feast for them. THEN, add in a little RAT PELLET mixture, some molasses and BAM. While the next thing ya know, they just disappear! Our neighbor has 17 pecan trees and even my Bubba contractor remarked, “Man ya gotta do something about that.” No more problems. If I could only do that with other pesky bloggers on DallasDirt!

By: mm

mm — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:37:05 +0000

Randy, I present to you…. Chris Chris.

http://www.theunticket.com/chris-chris-investment-company/

As illustration, a less Chris-Chris-y way to write your sentence above might have been “After installing new gables and eaves on my house in East Dallas, I had squirrels ripping holes in my new woodwork to get into my attic.”

By: Oh My Eyes

Oh My Eyes — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:19:21 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on the peroxide, Don.

I have been using the tomato juice and dawn dishwashing liquid method of smell removal.

I was four feet away from the final death location of the skunk. It reminded me of a tear gassed protest I was once part of. Ahh, all those 70s memories, without the bell-bottoms, and the hippie hair.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:10:33 +0000

Lakewoody, not sure I know what you mean. Who’s Chris Chris?