Hopefully it's gone Victor or it could be a long night.
Got this in an email from a friend today, some i've heard of before and some I have not. Thought i'd share, please speak up if you have tried any of these and they worked/did not work. I like the cornmeal and ants idea, especially about it being safe. ^_^
DID YOU KNOW?
Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!
Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.
Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.
Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow open ings.
Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and .... ta da! ... static is gone.
Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
Re opening envelopes
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily..
Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.
Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2' with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,' can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material .. I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks like. Well .... the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that's what burns out the heating unit. You can't SEE the film, but it's there. It's what is in the drye r sheets to make your clothes soft and static free ... that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feel waxy when you take them out of the box ... well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen.. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months. < He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I'd share!
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Thanks, I knew some of them. Will have to remember about the dryer vent. Learned about fruit flys here on DG and it worked.
Good luck, Victor, getting rid of the squirrels.
Celeste, have you solved your pc problems yet?
Victor, hope you send those squirrels packing!
Ugh - the little $#^#$^$!!@ is back. Long night. I can see my kids wanting to sleep with us to boot.
Victor if you can not find the way it came in... you had better get a trap of some kind.. they usually bring back friends
Oh, Victor!
The apple cider vinegar for fruit flies worked for me the cayenne pepper didn't. I've used the conditioner one for shaving my legs at times, it is pretty smooth and a lot cheaper!
Sorry to here your vixen is back Victor...we've had mice in the attic but thankfully no squirrels yet.
Har! I think Victor wishes he had a vixen, huh?
We've had rats in the garage. NO FUN!
I am pretty sure of where it got in - the attic. However, this DUMB one does not seem to know how to get back. He is in limbo between floors. I would like him to a) go back where he came in, or eveb, b) come into the house - preferably the basement - so I can trap him. I have a trap ready.
LOL! We had a rat under our deck last summer...stinker even came out when the dogs were out in broad daylight. It took 2 weeks to trap it.
might have to call the experts on this one if he doesn't come out
Oh Victor, it IS going to be a long night, isn't it?
Harper, had my son look into it for me.......he checked out firewalls and there had been someone trying to "ping" our IP address but has been blocked. The person who accused me may have been hacked and their email is being read. He said he see's no breach in our security here so it has to be on the other persons end. Just to be safe he set my email security settings higher and then ran a full scan of PC. and also did a firewall test. Thanks for asking though. ^_^
call an exterminador for the tree rat - they get active early in the morning so maybe it will go out with the rain stopping - lock the kids out of your room and tell them they are on there own:)
Rats are very difficult to catch. Two years in a row, I hired a professional service to get rid of them and they caught one. One of the techs left rat poison in the backyard where my dog came innocently along and ate it. He got fired, but because of that and that they didn't solve the rat problem, I will never hire them again. We were lucky. Shadow got emergency care from the vet and he's fine now. The pest co. paid the bill.
That's scary Harp...it escaped the trap several times...
Glad to hear things are good with your pc, Celeste.
Bill, you're cruel!
Hee hee - good idea, Bill! With the pellet stove, we leave the door open for the heat. What will an exterminator do other than set a trap?? Unless he is lilliputian, there's is not much he can do.
Just look in the yellow pages under "Lilliputian Squirrel Exterminators". They're right there under E.
Small print?
Hope he doesn't die in there Victor, he may not have a water supply.
- Thanks for the tips Pixie! I'm printing them out and sticking them to the fridge!
I was thinking about that, WC.
You're so quick, Victor.
^_^
Not as quick as the dang squirrel!
Too bad!
look at em go!!!
coleus on the left ... geraniums on the right
so far all the seeds I started the other day germinated but the agastache
Nice Allison...I am hoping to start mine this weekend. I use the foil trays too! What else did you start?
so far just geraniums, coleus & the agastache
http://davesgarden.com/community/journals/vbc/onewish1/83965/
Cool, Allison! That should help the rest of the winter go faster for you.
it usually does.. a lot less TV.. and more plants to play with.. I did two trays of cuttings tonight.. I dipped each coleus cutting in alcohol.. mealies .. YUCK.. I am keeping the plants I brought in downstairs & the new cuttings upstairs.. the momma plants are now out on the deck... hopefully I can get rid of them.. but I didn't make a dent in the plants I have to try and save
victor the exterminator could set up the one way exit for you
And what's going to make him get back to the attic?? I'm sure he's wishing he could get back! I've named him Sylvester.
sounds like it has moved in - it is your pet do what you feel is best
I wish I could do something - anything! It's trapped in there.
start taking a hammer to the ceiling:)
Hoping to avoid that! Will the stink of a dead one go through the floor? I'm guessing it will.
Maybe
Years ago in an old house i owned we had a short in the electrical system. had a friend who was an electrician helping me and we could not find where the short was located. I had replaced the ceiling in the kitchen and knew there was a junction box up there - never forget his face when i climbed up the step ladder and started wacking away - that was where the short was.
Is there any way out into the Attic? Maybe lure him with some poison food. is it possible to just cut a small opening in the wall of the attic to lure it?