I have a question I was wondering. I have my daycare in Howard at 444 S. Olive. For the past 2 weeks, I have come into town and something has knocked over and gotten into my trash cans. I don't know of any dogs in the neighborhood that run, but could be dogs. But yesterday Jeff brought in a big metal drum trash can, and you know what, it wasn't knocked over but something climbed in it and got trash out. If you live in this area and have a dog that runs at night, you might watch it. I can't imagine that stinky diapers would be that appealing. But if not a dog, does anyone have any ideas what it could be??? Just wondering!!
I don't know where that street is, but you might have coons getting into it. I do know that they have been coming into the edge of town (Howard) and catching small fowl. Also, we lived in a much larger town than Howard, and we had coyotes, and coons come into the middle of town and get into large dumpsters, which is what the town used for trash collections in the residential areas as well as businesses. Just a thought.
Myrna
If something is taking trash out of a big can I would guess racoons since they have the hands to do it. I think dogs, possums and coyotes would have to knock it over first then paw the trash out. Just guessing.
A fully grown 'coon can very easily use its hands and push off the lid on a trash can...I've watched them do it. It is amazing how Mother Nature can adapt herself to the Human world!
QuoteI think dogs, possums and coyotes would have to knock it over first then paw the trash out. Just guessing.
Yeah! Ya' really have to 'hand it' to those durn dogs and possums! ;D
ready
;D ;D I have large galvanized trash cans out on my deck for bird seed. We have to chain the lids on with halter snaps or the racoons just help themselves.They are almost tame and pay no attentions to us at all.I tried combination locks but they eventually figured out the combinations. :P ;) ;D
I'm gonna agree with everyone that it's raccoons that are the problem. Parsons (where we live now) is a town of 10,000 or so and they prowl around here at night like it's no big deal. When we lived just outside of town, this raccoon kept raiding my bird feeder about 3 in the afternoon, every day! I wondered why she was out in the daylight and then realized that she probably had babies and was having to eat a lot more because she was feeding them. Sure enough, about two weeks later, guess who came to visit? Momma coon and her 5 babies! They were so cute, it was worth them raiding my birdseed! And I could understand momma being so hungry.... :)
Lisa
Angie ----- my neighbor had her trash can "raided" and it was rolled to the outside of the enclosure. Her trash bags torn open and scattered EVERYWHERE.
Racoons are very destructive little creatures.
It could be some of our Forum members checking to see if there were any subversive messages or information on Elk Konnected in your trash. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Oh, Roma Jean! I love it! It is all is so foolish! ;D ;D ;D
;D Now why didn't I think of that! ;D ;D ;D
Well, if someone is going through my trash, I sure hope they enjoy the smell. Dirty diapers sitting in 100 degree weather, oh, how gross!!! LOL!! There might be some messages in there, too. Dang, better watch what I put in my trash, wouldn't want to let everyone know that I am an Elk Konnected member!!! LOL
I think that the big metal trash can helped, but we got to get a lid for it. They didn't dump it, but they did get into it but not as bad. Thanks everyone!!
Angie, when you get a lid, take one of Jeff's tarp straps and fasten it to each side and over the lid. If there are no handles, just poke a hold in each side.
I tried bungee cords first but they chewed through them. Must have been interesting when it snapped. ;D We finally settled on chain and that has worked well.
I keep mine in the garage. hee, hee
Warning - ancillary tangental rant ahead! ;D :angel:
Bungees and tarp straps have been mentioned in this thread. Twine could be used, but not as easily. In the past, one would just get a piece of used baling wire.
BUT IT'S VIRTUALLY IMPOSIBLE TO FIND USED BALING WIRE ANYMORE!
Used baling wire used to be everywhere. There would be bundles in every pick-up bed, tied on fence posts, hanging in trees, and in great big piles next to pasture gates. The multi-generational pile at Rumpus Ridge was so large it was visible from space on Google Earth.
It was reused and repurposed for everything. It had more uses than WD-40. It was the ubiquitous, omnipresent fix anything material. I've even welded with it!
AND NOW YOU CAN'T HARDLY FIND ANY, UNLESS YOU GO BUY IT!
I came to this realization about a year after I moved here to NW Ark. A rivet holding the plastic air dam on the front of the car broke. Easy fix, just get a small piece of baling wire. For the first time in my life there wasn't a piece of baling wire to be had. My inlaws didn't have any. My neighbors didn't have any. There wasn't any laying around the local feed store, or in the backs of pickups there, or at the livestock auction! Twine, twine, twine and more twine.
Of all the things around the farm that I knew I would miss having easy access to, I never in a million years would have thought baling wire would be near the top of the list.
Charlie
I remember when if the old cars couldn't be fixed with baling wire or bubble gum it was time to trade them in. I think that was the only time we got bubble gum was on a road trip.
Aha, I know where to find used baling wire, but I'm not telling. I might need more of it myself sometime.
Baling wire and duct tape, my husbands best friend!! Since girls rule our house, we have went with buying him colored duct tape like hot pink, or zebra stripes!! LOL
One time I drove a 53 Ford 200 miles to Howard with a radiator that had a large hole that the water would spew out.
I could not afford to have it fixed so I stuffed the hole with a rag and removed the radiator cap. I lost a lot of water through the rag, but on the trip only had to put water in it three or four times or so.
At Howard I went into the Ben Franklin dime store and purchased a bar of modeling clay. I worked the clay into the hole and it leaked a little but held until I returned home. Then as I arrived home the pressure forced the clay out.
Finally got the radiator fixed. The car was only six years old and managed only 8 mpg but was the first I had ever owned.
However, it was also the worst car I ever owned. The things I had to have fixed on it reads as long as someone's grocery list. My dad finally took pity on me and traded it in for a new car while giving me his old one.
Baling wire is our friend...just like duct tape.
My lawnmower chute has been wired on by myself and has functioned for 5 years. Before that, I went through 3 - $20 plastic chutes.
Pshaw I say on store parts...BAILING WIRE RULES! ;D
Now, as to the coons, put a live trap in the can. if it is a coon, then he will be trapped. If not, then perhaps someone just looking for some food....ugh....from what you described in your trash can, they will be desparate! :o
ready
Quote from: Lookatmeknow!! on June 20, 2011, 05:29:26 PM
Baling wire and duct tape, my husbands best friend!! Since girls rule our house, we have went with buying him colored duct tape like hot pink, or zebra stripes!! LOL
Is your hubby a fan of Red Green? http://www.redgreen.com/
Lisa
"Remember - If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
"I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess."
LOL FLint.....Red Green cracks me up.
I put my trash in a steel barrel and put a cinder block on the lid....nothin big enough to knock THAT off has got in it yet LOL....god forbid it DOES!
Quote from: thatsMRSc2u on June 20, 2011, 10:12:43 PM
LOL FLint.....Red Green cracks me up.
I put my trash in a steel barrel and put a cinder block on the lid....nothin big enough to knock THAT off has got in it yet LOL....god forbid it DOES!
If it does.....Bigfoot maybe? ;D
Lisa
Ah flashbacks! I remember driving in the mountains of Wyoming with my mother on some of the more or less scenic dirt roads. We were just out for a Sunday drive. The car was a '58 Chevy Bel-air, first car I (or I should say, Mom) ever owned. Bouncing around on those old logging roads, a welded shock absorber frame came loose and bounced on the road and up through the gas tank making a dime size hole. Twenty miles from nowhere and leaking gas like crazy. My mother, being a smart Elk County woman, unwrapped some bubble gum for both of us to chew and then I plastered the stuff into and onto the gas tank. It held with very little leakage. We made it back to the lumber camp where we were living at the time. And, it held for about a week until I could drive to Laramie to the dealer to have the shock replaced and the tank repaired. The mechanic said at the time he had never seen such a repair as the bubble gum. It had to do with all the sugar, I think. God bless MOM!
Larryj
Quote from: farmgal67357 on June 21, 2011, 07:51:51 AM
If it does.....Bigfoot maybe? ;D
Lisa
I wonder if you can see the Hornet Spook Light from the upper floors of Downstream Casino?
http://www.prairieghosts.com/devprom.html
Ah, the Hornet Spooklight.
I went looking for it about 1974. With a girl friend, we sat on a lonely desolate road with about a dozen other cars for several hours before leaving about 3:00am.
Never have talked to anyone who has actually seen it, although a reporter for the KC Star says he saw it.
Quote from: flintauqua on June 22, 2011, 08:01:59 PM
I wonder if you can see the Hornet Spook Light from the upper floors of Downstream Casino?
http://www.prairieghosts.com/devprom.html
Depends on how many drinks you have had! ; )
Lisa
Quote from: W. Gray on June 22, 2011, 08:11:30 PM
Ah, the Hornet Spooklight.
I went looking for it about 1974. With a girl friend, we sat on a lonely desolate road with about a dozen other cars for several hours before leaving about 3:00am.
Never have talked to anyone who has actually seen it, although a reporter for the KC Star says he saw it.
I've never seen it. A bunch of us bored teenagers (this was a FEW years back) went looking for it more than once. Have you seen show about Mater (from Cars) and the Spook Light? That was hilarious! BTW, I've never heard it called the Hornet Spook Light, just the "Spook Light over by Joplin".
Lisa
The desolate road the light appears on was close to the former town of Hornet, which was apparently not much to begin with.
It seems to be called the Hornet Spooklight in most stories, although apparently it is also called the Spooklight and the Devil's Promenade, or something like that.
When I was there, it seems there was just a lone store selling soda and other minor stuff to the people going to see the light.
That was 37 years ago.
In reference to some folks putting cinder blocks on their trash cans, etc., in order to deter raccoons as mentioned in some of the posts, above, the following was in the June 26, 2011, Denver Post.
(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad256/waldoegray/Racoon.jpg)
Now that the bodies of those Seal VI team members have come home, by way of here, I was sad to see Kansas got hit with at least three of the deaths. Everything stopped around Dover as the planes landed and the President did come as was expected.
DAFB finished a really nice family reception center recently, so there is a nice place for the families to wait and visit with each other if they choose. I just can't imagine how hard it must be on the loved ones to see those flag draped transfer cases and then have to leave them behind again so they can be ''processed" and then sent on to their final resting place. Did any of you know any of them?
That was a very sad day for America. We have lost too many of our young men and women. Can not imagine what those families are going through.
I so much wish and pray that we can figure out a way to get this war business done with soon. We need the people and the money back here. Right now.
Amen, Diane, Amen :'( :'(
Elect Ron Paul and it will be done. There is no need to have our troops scattered all over the world at the cost of billions if not trillions of dollars.
IMHO this issue is the shining star in Ron Pauls' campaign. He should play it for all it's worth, o' course that will depend upon the republican party and whether they elect to use this issue as a plank in their campaign. Personally I think it doubtful that this will happen.
New Questions!!!!
When is the fall City wide garage sale? Missed the one in the spring. 8)
In Howard - usually the first weekend in October.
Anybody doing anything for 9-11? I ask because it falls on a Sunday. There is a church a few miles from here that has put 6,166 flags out on their front yard. It's amazing. Know where they came up with that number?
For the 6,166 American Soldiers who have lost their lives in the War on Terror....
6,166
Personally, I don't follow the numbers....not good with math, nor the updates on some faux news. (not to disrespect your count, Diane)
KShill is right on....whether that # is correct.....not my bounty.
FOR 911 day, I will give thanks that I am still among the living.
Otherwise, I am off to eat a steak for my 3 day weekend.
Play nice,
ready for protein!
It was the number the church decided on and KS is right.
I just thank God that that number isn't higher like in the vietnam war!
There are some wars that were way higher than 6k in terms of numbers lost in just one day...If you HAVE to be involved in fighting a war, this is the age to be doing it in. I will be having my students sing Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" on the 12th, since it is the closest date to the anniversary. It'll be a great way to start out the school week for the kiddos! :D
Quote from catwoman:
I will be having my students sing Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA"
I sure don't have a problem with you doing that, but better be prepared for some nut case Liberal parent to start screaming the ol "separation of church and state' BS
Nope ,it will be the Atheist parent. Liberals would be fine with it, same as using money at school lunch that has "In God We Trust" on it. Now when the kids have to exchange their money for neutral scrip before they can buy lunch we gotta real problem.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 05, 2011, 04:15:40 PM
Nope ,it will be the Atheist parent. Liberals would be fine with it, same as using money at school lunch that has "In God We Trust" on it. Now when the kids have to exchange their money for neutral scrip before they can buy lunch we gotta real problem.
When that happens its too late. I say we have a real problem now with the bunch that are attempting to put in place neutral monies.
Quote from: jarhead on September 05, 2011, 03:09:20 PM
Quote from catwoman:
I will be having my students sing Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA"
I sure don't have a problem with you doing that, but better be prepared for some nut case Liberal parent to start screaming the ol "separation of church and state' BS
I have managed to escape the clutches of those nut cases so far...lol...I have had my kids sing that song every year for years. I also have the kids sing other things that have the name of God in it...Such as, "Don't Laugh At Me", a Mark Wills (or is it Willis...I can't remember) song that speaks against bullying but also says that "in God's eyes we're all the same...Someday, we'll all have perfect wings".
Brazen, aren't I... ;D
Quote from: Catwoman on September 05, 2011, 07:21:23 PM
I have managed to escape the clutches of those nut cases so far...lol...I have had my kids sing that song every year for years. I also have the kids sing other things that have the name of God in it...Such as, "Don't Laugh At Me", a Mark Wills (or is it Willis...I can't remember) song that speaks against bullying but also says that "in God's eyes we're all the same...Someday, we'll all have perfect wings".
Brazen, aren't I... ;D
I like that song, "Don't Laugh At Me". Makes me cry and it speaks volumes.
Careful there, Janet...You don't want to be too obvious about agreeing with anything I might post... ;D...It's not popular at the moment to agree with me! lol
That song always bring tears to all the eyes of the adults who are listening. It's part of the reason why I chose it for my kids to perform...Sometimes, adults need a little reminder.
Cat, I agree with you and I don't care who knows it.
Wilma, you're a gem!! ;D ;)