Hey lips... that night when your friends put up the plywood to keep the rats out... did there come a time later that night, while chiiling out on the couch and thinking about your problem in the garage, did you ever wonder if maybe you locked the "big mice" ...in?   lol

Rats... taste like chicken, no? Come on now, we all have eat'n at a few chineses buffets.  did someone say PHOBIAS?

I think what happened is they flew the coup and found a new home under my house! Chicken huh......lmao...no chinese buffets for me!

Hi Members,

Here is an update on the rat situation. I layed out D-Con in the garage and under the house. I decided to call the Village and tell them my plight. I asked if there was any rats reported in the area..they said No. I was told that they would send out public works and put some heavy duty poison around my house.

The next day public works knocks at my door. They decide to lay the poison on the outside of my property because of my baby boxer Hazel. They also put some in my crawl space.

In the mean time a neighbor a few doors down tells me he has seen rats in his back yard too. Okay so now im thinking there is really a major problem.

The next morning i go out to the yard....i see 2 squirrels fighting and running up our tree in the back yard. I'm thinkin how cute...when i see something in the squirrels mouth. I double take..oh no...please noooo...he has the poison in his mouth that the village put out.

I was heart broken. I call public works...they are going to lay traps now instead. He also said he thinks he knows why there is a rat prob...apparently there was a dumpster left unattended for a longggg time down the street. The Village will comb the area this week and try to resolve it.

So now no bird feeders and no squirrels....and i miss them both 

Lips

p.s. i still have not parked my car in the garage...lol

Nal...did i ever tell you...your priceless!

Ok so I was watching a show about people with all kinds of different fears.

Some of them were Clowns, Spiders, Heights etc etc..What I was wondering, what makes some afraid of something, yet another person has no fear of it whatsoever.

My fear is cockroaches, I cannot be near one, or I will lose it. It's more than a OMG get it out of here reaction. I will literally go into a panic. If it's in my house, I will get my kids to kill it for me. .

 Another one for me is heights, I was watching this show on extreme thrill rides on the Travel Channel. This guy goes to all the amusement parks in the country and rides the scariest rides they have.

Anyways, this particular episode, he was going to be the first public jumper to do a control free fall of the Stratoshphere in Las Vegas, NV.

890 in the air, you jump off the side of the building. No parachute, just you and a wire, 45 MPH and once you get a few feet before you land, it slows down and you land on your feet.

Now as I was watching this, I got really nervous. I felt shaky, started sweating, I got nauseas. I had a panic attack JUST watching it.

I couldn't imagine, not even for all the money in the world doing something like that.


What are you afraid of?

Bees and wasps - they send me into a panic.  I've been stung 3 times on the head on 3 separate occasions.  I have really thick hair and I think they like that for some reason or the colour?  If I hear a buzzing near me, I literally get a cold shiver down my back and then my arms are going all over the place like some crazy woman trying to scare whatever it is away - I run away too.  I look like a real idiot (lol normal heh heh).

blue

Same here Bees and Wasps, cockroaches and anything that had a rat type tail, i would freak out and get panicky when i see the tail of rats, heights are another.

One weird thing my mother had was all her young life she lived on the beach, her home was a beach front, she swam every day, fished, boated, swimming pools anything that had to do with it, she loved it.
Well, one time a man drowned and they pulled him from the water she was in the crowd watching, as they wheeled him by, his toe brushed across my mothers arm and since that day happened she was scared to death of water, wouldn't go near it, showers were fine it, was any open area of water she wouldn't go near. She was afraid of drowning, when it would rain here she would wear a life preserver because of the flooding, driving in a car if it started raining she would put on one of those tubes around her. She would get anxiety attacks if we drove by lakes or oceans. Swimming pools and jacuzzi's she tolerated somewhat but still you can see some slight panic. If she was going to get into one she would have every kind of life perserver gear you can imagine, and it would take maybe hours before she would get pass the knees.
I felt so badly for her, and it would hurt me so much that she had this fear.

OH LORDY, roaches....I had to go live with an old senile aunt for a whole summer when I was about 20 or so..geez she had so many roaches I couldnt rest, apparently there was a big crack in the foundation of her house and her neighbors were nasty and triffling, the first day I got there I was wearing all white and sitting in her recliner eating a box of fiddle faddle when out of the corner of my eye I see something move and look down to see a GINORMOUS roach crawlin on my skirt.....well within a few seconds I was up screaming bloody murder and fiddle faddle was everywhere! My Auntie who was lying on the couch turned and looked at me like I was loony.I explained what happened and she just chuckled and said, "tehehe oh that happens every time someone sits in that chair" (Cue in the music from Pyscho as I stand there in SHOCK realizing I was going to be there for months)
Eventually I would drink a few glasses of wine to pass out, so I could sleep.
Oddly I am afraid of opening cans of biscuits, touching frozen metal ice cube trays,and pricking my finger to test my blood (I know,duh)