Tpt life Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/spiders-force-family-upscale-missouri-home-26106285 Wow!!!???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 Yeah that's nasty. And that house is literally five minutes from my house. But we're bug-free here...as far as I know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckkisser Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 that's a pretty tent hopefully they have a circus inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted October 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 I don't know what would bug me more as a neighbor, the critters or the gas that will neutralize eggs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 They're due south of me and the jet stream runs west to east. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 One more question Kiki....... Is that Ferguson B/S boiling over toward you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted October 12, 2014 Report Share Posted October 12, 2014 Nah, I'm on the other side of the river where it's safe. But I do have a house for sale right next door to Ferganistan, in Florissant. I'm sure it's helping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyrolan Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Nah, I'm on the other side of the river where it's safe. But I do have a house for sale right next door to Ferganistan, in Florissant. I'm sure it's helping. Oh man...for a minute I was like "uh the other side is not supposed to be the safe side"...I thought you meant the other side of the Mississippi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 If I were on the other side of the Mississippi, I'd be in Illinois. Even though they do call it East St. Louis. But it's Illinois. I'm on the west side of the Missouri River, which is a sea of middle class suburbia. Biggest crimes you find out here are drunk driving and low-level tax evasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyrolan Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 If I were on the other side of the Mississippi, I'd be in Illinois. Even though they do call it East St. Louis. But it's Illinois. Well we don't think any higher of Central and Southern IL than you do despite being the same state. =p I'm on the west side of the Missouri River, which is a sea of middle class suburbia. Biggest crimes you find out here are drunk driving and low-level tax evasion. My brother lives in St. Charles, and definitely agree that whole area is a giant suburban sea...directions are like take a left on puffy cloud lane, right on rolling creek drive to enter shimmering sea estates and then a right on fluffy bunny boulevard. Ugh. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapid Roger Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Well we don't think any higher of Central and Southern IL than you do despite being the same state. =p My brother lives in St. Charles, and definitely agree that whole area is a giant suburban sea...directions are like take a left on puffy cloud lane, right on rolling creek drive to enter shimmering sea estates and then a right on fluffy bunny boulevard. Ugh. My brother lives in O'Fallon and I couldn't agree with you more. We only get there to visit once or twice a year and everytime we go there is another street or highway with s silly @$$ name. even the GPS has trouble keeping up with it. I live in "flat land" Kansas where east is east and west is west and we hope the trains don't meet. Rog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Well the streets in my neighborhood are named after celestial objects, so I'm only moderately embarrassed. I've seen stupid names for streets in every city I've ever been to. You can only name so many Broadway before you gotta start calling them something else. Yeah, Kansas is a straight-up grid, ain't it? Kansas City is definitely easier to navigate than St. Louis. You wanna get really confused, try Boston. Their roads started out as cow trails...and cows apparently don't know much about city planning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyrolan Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Kansas is the land where the a two-lane road makes a 2-degree turn over a distance of about 2 miles without a single tree within 5 miles and it's still a damn double yellow line because it's a curve. Sigh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechwood Chip Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 The streets in West Philly are named Chestnut, Walnut, Locust, Spruce, Pine, Cedar, Hazel, Larchwood, Osage, etc. But, 90% of the trees on all of these streets are sycamores. Beautiful, old, 5 story tall sycamores. Then there are the streets that don't fit the grid pattern. These are old wagon trails that are named after their destination: Baltimore, Lancaster, Haverford. I like street names that are descriptive, like Baltimore, Broad, Market, Main. It reminds me of a time before governments saw streets as naming opportunities, and people just gave streets nick-names to describe them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodbutcher74 Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Well we don't think any higher of Central and Southern IL than you do despite being the same state. =p My brother lives in St. Charles, and definitely agree that whole area is a giant suburban sea...directions are like take a left on puffy cloud lane, right on rolling creek drive to enter shimmering sea estates and then a right on fluffy bunny boulevard. Ugh. I'd hate to tell you what the folks from Downstate Illinois think of the Chicagoland area. Blaggo. Ryan, Quinn. Best license plate makers in the whole USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyrolan Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 I'd hate to tell you what the folks from Downstate Illinois think of the Chicagoland area. Blaggo. Ryan, Quinn. Best license plate makers in the whole USA. Well true to form, most Chicagoland people don't care what the downstate people think as long as they keep paying their state taxes to fund CTA/Metra. =p =p =p (That comment would have my aunt who lives in Southern IL raging for hours about Chicago this Chicago that...she makes it too easy.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted October 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Somewhat compulsive re-processor... What kind of food does it take to support 6,500 Brown Recluse spiders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el capitán Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Some of my brothers live in west Michigan and I haven't decided if the street naming scheme there is genius or laziness. Roads that run north and south are 1,2,3,4........ Roads that run east and west are A,B,C,D........... I like it it makes it easy for directionally challenged people, like myself, to know what direction they are heeding. If the streets numbers are getting bigger your going north. My brother lives on KT. I would guess they skip some letter combos like DR or ST. That would be funny "what road do you live on" "DR Dr".. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Of course, there are arachnids... and then there are arachnids with a capital 'A': This is a small specimen of Theraphosa blondi. Today's NYTimes reports a researcher finding a specimen, “The size of a puppy”... Now, we're a spider-friendly family... We're all about catch/release for daddy-long legs, crickets, et al… If we find a lost critter inside, we'll relocate him/her/it… But if a, “Puppy-sized” arachnid happened into my shop... Well, a 28g would be the order of the day… I’ve got this nice Spanish field gun… <edit> BTW: Does this resonate? How many times have you wandered into the kitchen still laden with sleep -- rather like a bear foraging for his morning meal -- only to be confronted with an upside-down glass in the middle of the floor? The only hint to late-night activities being a Post-It directing Bwana, the great White Hunter, to, “Take care” of the offending small creature that haplessly wandered into camp... And how many ignored said glass and, upon reaching the fridge, found sustenance, only to wander back to bed with the phrase, "What glass?" committed firmly to memory --- ready for quick retrieval... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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