The Good Banter Thread

[sissy]

guess it has closed now as it started thundering and the dogs and I were sitting on the front porch watching the rain come over the mountain and next thing i knew we were running for the front door because it was blowing in on the porch .We got a tad bit wet

 

[koiguy1969]

LADIES...If this applies to you, click on the "like" tab.....

lol?

 

[sissy]

I just got the new airmax book and they are selling the kit for a 2000 gallon pond 89.98 8 watts air line 4 check valves and 4 blue air stones 1 year warranty

 

[callingcolleen1]

Sounds very exciting! Getting yourself a new pond? Glad to hear you and your youngest son had time for icecream cake and subs together, life goes by so fast, so its good you two enjoyed the moment together!

 

[sissy]

no the airmax is an aerator .The one on e bay I bought is a piece of garbage and you can not even contact the sellor

 

[CountryEscape]

I got the AP 100 by Pondmaster from Marvin Gardens on Ebay. It sounded really loud, I contacted the seller, he at first said hard to compare sound without seeing it. Then I heard others compare the sound of theirs, told him that, he got a replacement to me, and return shipping for the loud one was free. I was VERY pleased with his PR. The new one is maybe 1/5 the volume of the old one. Unbelievable, so glad I had my pond friends to ask! It's maybe more pump that I'll ever need, but once I get it going, I'll be happy to have the added power.
On another note, here is a pic (VERY small, took it with my phone) of a bobcat kitten that I saw along the road on my way home from my friend's house north of Quincy, IL (NW Illinois). The second pic is an internet pic of a clear look at what I really saw!

There was a pair of them, and at first I thought they were cats, then they turned around, and I saw the short tails, and then noticed the ear tufts! Got to watch them for about a minute before they crossed the road and headed up the hill. Just wish I'd had my camera handy, a video would have been AWESOME!!! This was the highlight of my trip! Sold one puppy up there, then sold the last two (I think) to my neighbor and his MIL.

 

[j.w]

How neat to get to see the little twin cats! Darn you better start remembering your camera! You are getting as bad as me,lol! Glad you sold the pups

 

[CountryEscape]

Oh, I had my camera with me, but it was in my suitcase, behind my seat. I stopped on the road, but was afraid if I took my eyes off the kittens to get the camera, they would vanish, and I would have missed the experience to watch them. I have my memory, and the internet pic shows what they looked like. It was a memory I will never forget! Something so special about seeing wildlife in the wild, as opposed to in a zoo. VERY special experience. I think there are far more bobcats in my State than some people want to admit. My daughter saw a full grown one when we were riding in southern Illinois in June. They are not very big, about the size of an oversized cat, I guess. These kittens were pretty good sized, then, about the size of a full grown cat, so maybe more than half grown. Just so cute and innocent looking.

 

[j.w]

We have a tree farm that I walk through on my long walks sometimes and a few yrs ago something bolted out in front of me. I thought at first it was a dog but when it got right in front of me I saw that it was a bobcat about the size of a medium dog. He was afraid and ran like heck into the woods. I thought that was the coolest thing since German Chocolate cake (my favorite cake),lol! I'll never forget that either and also the time we went over to Eastern Wa. near a river we like to camp at we saw a little black bear walking along the roadside. We tried to take a camping trip to Canada one year and as we were driving along a hwy a cougar ran right out in front of us. He made it across the road safely but that was cool to get to see one. 5 dear just crossed our property a few minutes ago but then that's not out of the ordinary here but still I love to see them.............as long as they don't act like giant slugs on my plants!

 

[callingcolleen1]

I get deer every night here, they come from the nearby hill or creek area and wander thru my yard, they ate all my buds on my one rose bush, all the flowers on my big was supposed to be white hydranga bush too! But they have to eat too, so a plant lots so I still have flowers, that goodness they didn't eat my very pretty lillys or they just might start looking like dog food! Ha ha

Going to get a new cell phone to tomorrow, I'm sure I dropped on this road when I reached into my bag to get the leashes, because this guy who hates me was coming down the road to walk his dog. (He hates me cause Poppy may or maynot have bit his dog two years ago, said I was sorry, but he saw me there at the top of the hill one day and let his one dog out while he drove the truck fast to "greet me" and he should have asked first if it was OK, but he never gave me the chance, and ran his dog full speed ahead to my three very large dogs. Poppy hates other dogs, can't help that, failed "doggy school" so I walk them in the middle of"no where"!
Never asume three large dogs (in the middle of now where) are nice that you never before seen, and rush up with one little dog to greet, maybe ask first if it's OK!!! Anywhere I saw him stop on the road where I lost it and I think he picked it up and took it, because I stayed on the middle of the road the whole time because I didn't want the bugs to bite me in the long grass, and not only that, there lots of snakes this time of year down there, just about stepped on a rattler one year in the long grass, so I don't go in the long grass. Now I'm mumbling, just going to get and new phone and fork over the money cause I have to have it!!!! :C

 

[addy1]

Bummer colleen! The guy must be a real jerk. Hope you had it turned off immediately! and reported stolen.

 

[sissy]

well got a new toy a new wheelbarrow and it is just light duty says 550 lbs but would not count on that being true ,but neat thing is that when I was reading the directions I thought about sealing around all the bolts to make it water tight since it is so deep can use it to water plants and add fertilizer to it .I like that it has a balance bar in the back and front and swivels on the axle to dump and has 2 over sized wheels and even better it was 15 dollars .My old ones are over 20 years old and after tons of repairs and new paint the one I will use as a planter because it is in worse shape .I will have to get pic of my new baby .

 

[callingcolleen1]

New toys, going to get a new cell after I have a coffee, slept in late, eyes struggling to open. Yes Addy, that guy is a jerk, he used to try to run the puppies off the road with his truck, until jumped into my truck and caught up with him and gave him a piece of my mind, mind you that's not all I wanted to give him, grrrr.... oh my blood pressure!! I'd a dirt road by the river, hardly anyone goes there, why does he have to show up the same time I'm there!

 

[icsd71]

Thats a good idea sissy it should work. I would suggest rubber washers on the top side with silicone on the underside.

 

[sissy]

Yep did that rubber washers and silicon on the top as I put the bolts through also.Who could get this excited about a stupid wheelbarrow but me LOLI got a bunch of things done to day cleaned up my gardens and finished the waterfall and put out mini splendors gate .My house on the lake ,well almost and got the bird bath done and leveled