dumb story of the tdf from my house

"h squared" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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early sunday morning, i got up to take care of my dogs while my
boyfriend was sleeping. when i opened the pantry to feed them, i found
that ants had discovered the dog food, and there were ants swarming
everywhere- a black moving tide.

not being at my best in the morning, i screamed and screamed at the top
of my lungs.

so my bf is woken from a deep sleep by my screaming. what does he think
would make me screech like that in the early hours of sunday? loss of a
limb? dead body in the yard? nope. from the bedroom he asks, concerned,
"did LANCE fall down???"

just a few years ago he complained about how the bike racing season was
a trial to him, and now at the sound of my distress he's worried about
LANCE and not me. i hope you are happy 🙂

heather

EWWWW! We have ants and sometimes I'll find a big swarm of them. Last night,
I found some kind of huge milliipede on the wall, but didn't scream because
my boyfriend was asleep. I just went EWWWW silently and killed it with my
flipflop. When I find a big swarm of ants, I get the dirt devil and suck
them up!

The only time I screamed in the morning was when I got up the morning of an
exam, after a horrible night's sleep, due to anxiety. And there was a dead
mouse right in the middle of the living room floor. It was like 6 am and I
too am not a morning person, so I went YAAAAAA! That woke Matt up. We'd been
having a mouse problem for some time and I think the building management had
gotten complaints and put down some poison. My neighbor also found a dead
mouse. I was just glad that it died out in the open and not in a closet or
some place hidden!

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early sunday morning, i got up to take care of my dogs while my
boyfriend was sleeping. when i opened the pantry to feed them, i found
that ants had discovered the dog food, and there were ants swarming
everywhere- a black moving tide.

not being at my best in the morning, i screamed and screamed at the top
of my lungs.

so my bf is woken from a deep sleep by my screaming. what does he think
would make me screech like that in the early hours of sunday? loss of a
limb? dead body in the yard? nope. from the bedroom he asks, concerned,
"did LANCE fall down???"

just a few years ago he complained about how the bike racing season was
a trial to him, and now at the sound of my distress he's worried about
LANCE and not me. i hope you are happy 🙂

heather

Get some Terro and that will be the end of the ants for good.

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early sunday morning, i got up to take care of my dogs while my
boyfriend was sleeping. when i opened the pantry to feed them, i found
that ants had discovered the dog food, and there were ants swarming
everywhere- a black moving tide.

not being at my best in the morning, i screamed and screamed at the top
of my lungs.

so my bf is woken from a deep sleep by my screaming. what does he think
would make me screech like that in the early hours of sunday? loss of a
limb? dead body in the yard? nope. from the bedroom he asks, concerned,
"did LANCE fall down???"

just a few years ago he complained about how the bike racing season was
a trial to him, and now at the sound of my distress he's worried about
LANCE and not me. i hope you are happy 🙂

heather

Good to know he has his priorites straight......

Sierraman said:

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Get some Terro and that will be the end of the ants for good.

we may have to do something about them in the future, but right now they
really aren't doing anything to bother us as long as we don't leave ant
food around. i did squish some on sunday, but i try to keep that to a
minimum. (we also have paper wasps living under our house's eaves that
we are reluctant to destroy.) thanks though,

heather

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Sierraman said:

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Get some Terro and that will be the end of the ants for good.

we may have to do something about them in the future, but right now they
really aren't doing anything to bother us as long as we don't leave ant
food around. i did squish some on sunday, but i try to keep that to a
minimum. (we also have paper wasps living under our house's eaves that
we are reluctant to destroy.) thanks though,

heather

Tarro is for sweet eating ants and the good news is the little black ants
are sweet eating and in fact many of the bigger black ants are sweet eating
but then some others are not. I found that out here there are many different
shapes and sizes in the Sierras. Terro has borax in it I believe and they
take it back to the nest and it kills the queen and all the children.

End of story, end of ants!

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Sierraman said:

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Get some Terro and that will be the end of the ants for good.

we may have to do something about them in the future, but right now they
really aren't doing anything to bother us as long as we don't leave ant
food around. i did squish some on sunday, but i try to keep that to a
minimum. (we also have paper wasps living under our house's eaves that
we are reluctant to destroy.) thanks though,

heather

Ants, once they've found food and you take it away, will explore your
entire house looking for more. Worse, they may be living in the
boards of your house. Best to wipe them out.

Simple solution I've used is mix 1 part borax to 1 part sugar and add
water to make a slurry. Place it where pets won't be able to get to
it. Replace as needed. Takes care of ants in about one week.

Richard Adams said:

Ants, once they've found food and you take it away, will explore your
entire house looking for more. Worse, they may be living in the
boards of your house. Best to wipe them out.

Simple solution I've used is mix 1 part borax to 1 part sugar and add
water to make a slurry. Place it where pets won't be able to get to
it. Replace as needed. Takes care of ants in about one week.

our house pretty much is one big ant colony. they either live in the
walls or underneath the house in the crawl space, but you can watch a
steady stream of them going in and out from several locations around the
foundation of the house. inside we only see the little wandering
searchers, unless they find food.

my boyfriend said that they wouldn't damage the structure of the house
(like carpenter ants do) so we've left them alone. but is he so fixated
on LANCE that i can't trust his judgment on anything else now? i don't
mind leaving them be, but if it's going to turn into a $50000 fiasco 5
years from now, i'd be ok with baiting them 🙁

heather

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my boyfriend said that they wouldn't damage the structure of the house
(like carpenter ants do)

Just the same, judging from your description Heather, you might want to have
the place scoped out for termites. Lots of pest control people like Orkin
or Western will do a free -- count 'em, free -- inspection, then try to sell
you "preventative" maintenance when they don't find anything. You can
always get a second O if they say they find a live infestation.

Jim F

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Richard Adams said:

Ants, once they've found food and you take it away, will explore your
entire house looking for more. Worse, they may be living in the
boards of your house. Best to wipe them out.

Simple solution I've used is mix 1 part borax to 1 part sugar and add
water to make a slurry. Place it where pets won't be able to get to
it. Replace as needed. Takes care of ants in about one week.

our house pretty much is one big ant colony. they either live in the
walls or underneath the house in the crawl space, but you can watch a
steady stream of them going in and out from several locations around the
foundation of the house. inside we only see the little wandering
searchers, unless they find food.

my boyfriend said that they wouldn't damage the structure of the house
(like carpenter ants do) so we've left them alone. but is he so fixated
on LANCE that i can't trust his judgment on anything else now? i don't
mind leaving them be, but if it's going to turn into a $50000 fiasco 5
years from now, i'd be ok with baiting them 🙁

heather

I was at the car shop today having my car fixed at the big auto center and I
went into the waiting room to sit a spell and watch the Tour. I picked up a
copy of SI to check out for a minute because Lance was on the front cover. I
sit down and asked the only person in the room, a middle aged blonde if I
could switch the TV channel to watch the Tour. She said no I couldn't as she
was watching some soap [censored] or something, and she inquired why. I showed her
the photo of Lance on the cover and she said she didn't know him. I further
preceeded to tell her about Lance being a great cyclist and winning all the
tours and asked her if she had seen the commericals. She again stated she
had no idea who Lance was. That just blew my mind. I can't believe she
didn't know who he was since she looked like the average city home body who
of at least would of seen him in commericals and maybe heard about the
cancer comeback kid, but I guess not. But then again I have ran into people
who didn't know who Jane Pauley and Diane Sawyer were either. BTW, Jane
Pauley was hired by my uncle at NBC years ago. Small world.

Sierraman said:

I was at the car shop today having my car fixed at the big auto
center and I went into the waiting room to sit a spell and watch the
Tour. I picked up a copy of SI to check out for a minute because
Lance was on the front cover. I sit down and asked the only person in
the room, a middle aged blonde if I could switch the TV channel to
watch the Tour. She said no I couldn't as she was watching some soap
[censored] or something, and she inquired why. I showed her the photo of
Lance on the cover and she said she didn't know him.

Welcome to the real world. Not everyone can have the same hero.

Sierraman said:

But then again I have ran into people
who didn't know who Jane Pauley and Diane Sawyer were either. BTW, Jane
Pauley was hired by my uncle at NBC years ago. Small world.

So you's added TV anchors to your list of stalkees?

Just kidding.

JT

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Sierraman said:

But then again I have ran into people
who didn't know who Jane Pauley and Diane Sawyer were either. BTW, Jane
Pauley was hired by my uncle at NBC years ago. Small world.

So you's added TV anchors to your list of stalkees?

Just kidding.

I have seen a number of movie stars in Santa Barbara, especially in the art
museum. We used to bike ride by Jane Fonda and Reagan ranch which is near
Gaviota. They don't impress me much. One time while at Big Sur art gallery,
Rue Macallahan from the Golden girls came up behind me in some sexy skin
suit and asked me if the free coffee was good. I didn't recognize her, a
friend told me who she was. They are not as big in real life as you think.

Not a dig on Reagan though, I did prosper under Reaganomics.

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Sierraman said:

I was at the car shop today having my car fixed at the big auto
center and I went into the waiting room to sit a spell and watch the
Tour. I picked up a copy of SI to check out for a minute because
Lance was on the front cover. I sit down and asked the only person in
the room, a middle aged blonde if I could switch the TV channel to
watch the Tour. She said no I couldn't as she was watching some soap
[censored] or something, and she inquired why. I showed her the photo of
Lance on the cover and she said she didn't know him.

Welcome to the real world. Not everyone can have the same hero.

Oh come on, you have to be worse then a conehead or be the Amish to not know
who Lance is here in the states. He is all over the place on TV with
commericals. Those commericals do reach the masses.

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Sierraman said:

I was at the car shop today having my car fixed at the big auto
center and I went into the waiting room to sit a spell and watch the
Tour. I picked up a copy of SI to check out for a minute because
Lance was on the front cover. I sit down and asked the only person in
the room, a middle aged blonde if I could switch the TV channel to
watch the Tour. She said no I couldn't as she was watching some soap
[censored] or something, and she inquired why. I showed her the photo of
Lance on the cover and she said she didn't know him.

Welcome to the real world. Not everyone can have the same hero.

What if O.J. were on the cover?
You would know him, and I doubt he's your hero.

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Get some Terro and that will be the end of the ants for good.

we may have to do something about them in the future, but right now they
really aren't doing anything to bother us as long as we don't leave ant
food around. i did squish some on sunday, but i try to keep that to a
minimum. (we also have paper wasps living under our house's eaves that
we are reluctant to destroy.) thanks though,

heather

Tarro is for sweet eating ants and the good news is the little black ants
are sweet eating and in fact many of the bigger black ants are sweet eating
but then some others are not. I found that out here there are many different
shapes and sizes in the Sierras. Terro has borax in it I believe and they

"Sierra" (you should know better)

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Oh come on, you have to be worse then a conehead or be the Amish to
not know who Lance is here in the states. He is all over the place on
TV with commericals. Those commericals do reach the masses.

That doesn't mean a thing. He does a Subaru commercial, where his name is
never used in the commercial and I guarantee you that only one in a
thousand people, outside the sport of cycling in some form, will even be
able to tell you who it was. Most would just see a guy with short hair,
saying something about the car and then getting in it. Those 999 viewers
wouldn't recognize him from Adam. Just because he's the biggest name in
cycling right now doesn't amount to much in the "real" world.

------
Dave Casey - Realtor
www.LasVegasHomesDirect.com
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early sunday morning, i got up to take care of my dogs while my
boyfriend was sleeping. when i opened the pantry to feed them, i found
that ants had discovered the dog food, and there were ants swarming
everywhere- a black moving tide.

not being at my best in the morning, i screamed and screamed at the top
of my lungs.

so my bf is woken from a deep sleep by my screaming. what does he think
would make me screech like that in the early hours of sunday? loss of a
limb? dead body in the yard? nope. from the bedroom he asks, concerned,
"did LANCE fall down???"

just a few years ago he complained about how the bike racing season was
a trial to him, and now at the sound of my distress he's worried about
LANCE and not me. i hope you are happy 🙂

heather

EWWWW! We have ants and sometimes I'll find a big swarm of them. Last

night,

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I found some kind of huge milliipede on the wall, but didn't scream

because

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my boyfriend was asleep. I just went EWWWW silently and killed it with my
flipflop. When I find a big swarm of ants, I get the dirt devil and suck
them up!

The only time I screamed in the morning was when I got up the morning of

an

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exam, after a horrible night's sleep, due to anxiety. And there was a dead
mouse right in the middle of the living room floor. It was like 6 am and I
too am not a morning person, so I went YAAAAAA! That woke Matt up. We'd

been

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having a mouse problem for some time and I think the building management

had

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gotten complaints and put down some poison. My neighbor also found a dead
mouse. I was just glad that it died out in the open and not in a closet or
some place hidden!

Maybe a cat left it for you. When cats like you, they will kill little
animals and leave them out for you to enjoy for yourself. Some rodent at 6
inthe morning doesn't sound appealing huh?

Dave

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From: Dave Casey

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Those 999 viewers
wouldn't recognize him from Adam. Just because he's the biggest name in
cycling right now doesn't amount to much in the "real" world.

He's made the talkshow circuit (day and night shows) every summer for five
years now, plus the visibility from his LAF work. Plus the newspapers, in July
at least. I'd suggest that advertisers carefully pick celebs with big audiences
before they pop for the big personal appearance bucks.
--TP

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:52:25 -0500, "Pistof" <[email hidden]>

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Maybe a cat left it for you. When cats like you, they will kill little
animals and leave them out for you to enjoy for yourself. Some rodent at 6
inthe morning doesn't sound appealing huh?

Definitely a problem when I go home to Kansas. There are about five
active mousers and you need to watch it when you step barefoot on the
front porch in the morning. Cold concrete and cold crunchy corpses can
wake you up like a couple of cups of coffee. (Cheap attempt for the
alliteration award).

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...