Hounding After Hours

BigWords said:

And an ass-kicking for you-know-who is waiting as soon as you say the word.

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There's a ass-kicking in the works? Can I help? I happen to be certified as a Baseball Bat Therapist.

I don't look at my services as blah-blah-blah-for-hire or whatever. I consider myself to be a motivational speaker. I can motivate somebody to stop certain activities at once.

If I get my way, yes.

Major ass-kicking in the works...

It seems America has weird people leasing apartments. I guarantee that I would not be getting my deposit back if I was treated the same way Abby has been.

I'm gonna crash for a couple of hours. Nudge me if you set fire to the dungeon...

Oh, I could tell you stories about various landlords I've dealt with.

There was this one who had a pregnant girlfriend. Well, once she got knocked up, he wouldn't touch her and she was really feeling the urge. So, she was hitting on me whenever she got a chance. It made for a crazy situation.

It just goes on and on. We have some real weirdos owning apartments and doing crazy things.

But you know, sometimes they can be motivated to give the deposit back when the alternative is simply not acceptable. I mean, pay up or have a speech impediment? That's a simple choice, right?

So, Colorado is on fire, and Florida is flooding. Is the world really ending this year? I asked Mom that out loud at dinner today.

Her response: Get your towel and don't panic.

My mom's awesome.

Whaddup, Hounds?

Your mom told you to get a towel? That's awesome! Towels are cool and you can never forget one.

Yep. One must always know where one's towel is.

how's your night going? I'm plugging away at a project that just won't come together. I know what I want it to be, but it won't be that. Instead, it's something less than good.

Rhoda Nightingale said:

Her response: Get your towel and don't panic.

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Sound advice. And yes, your mom is cool.

*looks upward, awaiting the bulldozers*


Has anyone checked to make sure the dolphins are still here?

Bulldozers and dolphins? Can't say.

But the snake that wriggled its 3 1/2 - 4 foot ugly a$$ self into my garage this weekend is dead and the 6 hours spent weedeating and mowing with the deck dropped as low as possible have hopefully made my yard as unpleasant for the ugly little nasties as possible.

I hate snakes. Hope you made it nasty for them, but not so nasty they came to your home, like the basement.

What kind of snakes are you dealing with?

Y'know, Ted, that last post really want to make me quote Snakes On A Plane.

LaurieD said:

Bulldozers and dolphins? Can't say.

But the snake that wriggled its 3 1/2 - 4 foot ugly a$$ self into my garage this weekend is dead and the 6 hours spent weedeating and mowing with the deck dropped as low as possible have hopefully made my yard as unpleasant for the ugly little nasties as possible.

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Ewww.... sounds like you need to get a honey badger.

I'm not so bothered by snakes actually.

But, yeah, not in my house.

Good luck, Laurie. Hope they stay away.

Morning, Hounds.

Morning Hounds

The Great Second Summer Session Attrition has begun. Class went from 6 yesterday to 4 today.

Ah well, they pay me regardless.

Incidentally, for all of you having creepy crawly issues, the Question of the Week in the Newbie section is on that. And you don't have to be a newbie to answer it.

Hmm. I'll have a go at that, Boston.



Wait, there aren't pics or anything, are there?

Our garage is several feet/yard away from the house.

I have no basement, only a crawl space and I try not to think about what might be only 18 inches beneath the layers of floor/subfloor/etc under my feet.

This was a black nasty with a white chin, blunt nose, and was about an inch and a half in diameter - a skinnier, shorter version of the nasty that crawled onto my across-the-street neighbor's porch swing the summer before last. S (hubs) shot it for her, but hubs wasn't home this weekend - he was in Sacramento. White inside its mouth, it continued to open its jaws many several minutes after my friends decapitated it.

Keeping the grass scalped usually deters them from exploring where we usually tread. But this is also why it's been five years since the major ice storm that wrecked most of my trees and I'm still not done cleaning up the deadfall - once the wolf spiders start showing up, the snakes aren't usually far behind. Which leaves only a few weeks of weather tolerable enough and the ground is dry enough to actually make any progress.

:Gaah

soapdish said:

Wait, there aren't pics or anything, are there?

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No, no pics. Wouldn't want the newbies having to try and figure that out in their first couple of posts.

LaurieD said:

White inside its mouth, it continued to open its jaws many several minutes after my friends decapitated it.

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They will do this. All snakes. Which is why even a dead snake can bite you.


And the rest of your story is why I will never, ever live where you do. EVER.

slcboston said:

All snakes. Which is why even a dead snake can bite you.

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Indiana Jones had good reason to dislike them intensely...

Snakes are also very cute. Okay, maybe only kinda cute.

I like them.

BigWords said:

I like them.

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I find them fascinating, honestly. They don't feel the way you think they should, and they are remarkable critters.

Just so long as the big poisonous ones stay over there, and not over here, where I am.

that's key.

There's a photograph online (and being a Hound, you should know the site it is on - filled with EXTREMELY NSFW images) of a man whose leg was largely destroyed by the venom of a snake bite. The "humorous" captions I can live without, but as a wealth of knowledge about what the human body can survive...

I don't know what site it is. Am I not houndish enough?

Um, I don't know it either, I don't think.


Not that I need to, really. Esp as it is lunch time here.