Smitty-48 wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:57 am
I keep remembering that my uncle is dead and my mother just took the blow
She said she would call me back, but nothing yet, she says what she means tho, so I won't pester her
Your uncle just died too, Mrs Smitty ain't gonna stay fake mad at you for long especially in these circumstances, not that she was going to even if that wasn't the case
RIP Smitty's Uncle, sounds like a great dude, and he's still doing his nephew a solid even after death
Smitty-48 wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:57 am
I keep remembering that my uncle is dead and my mother just took the blow
She said she would call me back, but nothing yet, she says what she means tho, so I won't pester her
Your uncle just died too, Mrs Smitty ain't gonna stay fake mad at you for long especially in these circumstances, not that she was going to even if that wasn't the case
RIP Smitty's Uncle, sounds like a great dude, and he's still doing his nephew a solid even after death
Yeah, although I haven't talked to him in years, he's a recluse too, or was
For me it's not my kid brother tho, he was bigger than life, but not close to me like my father
At this point after my father died I was suffering from medical grade shock
Hastur wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:13 am
Propane mosquito traps are the shit. They don't just keep them away but kills them as well. You really notice the population dwindling after a couple of days. Useless against gnats like Black flies though.
I just looked them up, I was wondering where the propane came in.
They use something similar when filming during mosquito season in Scotland to keep them off the actors and crew although the CO2 comes out of a bottle rather than off a flame.
Not such a big problem down here in England but I do remember an occasion when we were filming at a WWII vehicle museum in Norfolk where we were all suffering badly from the little bastards. After a quick recce around the site, I discovered that they were laying their eggs in the little pools of water collecting in the tarps covering vehicles stored outside.
A little bit of bleach in all the nearby pools really reduced the problem.
I do feel a bit guilty about damaging the canvas, I wouldn't have wanted to be there when they discovered all the bleached and holed tarp's.
I now know that a bit of detergent breaking the surface tension would have been just as efficient and would have been harmless to the canvas.
Mosquito Magnet makes the best ones. It's not just CO2, they use some kind of tablet that simulates mammal sweat as well.
CO2, heat and moisture all come off a propane flame and mimic your breath.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.