Archive for 'Mosquitos'
Posted: December 6th, 2007 by
Frank
We were early adopters (2003) of the original Mosquito Magnets. We bought the Defender model, which uses wall AC rather than a thermocouple in the propane burner: It was several hundred dollars less. It performed very well, and we had the most pleasantly bug free summer ever and were planning to buy another one to
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Posted under Blackflies, Mosquitos.
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Posted: July 26th, 2007 by
Frank
Out behind our house is the remnant of a large (10-20 acre) beaver pond, where the beavers drowned a serious spruce forest between 1960 and 1980, give or take a couple years on each end. They had left fairly recently when I bought the land in 1986 and there was still standing water under
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Posted under Beavers, Frogs, Mosquitos, Snakes.
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Posted: July 7th, 2007 by
Lisa
Look at that latch. What a wonderful sight and sound that was. It didn’t take me too long to get her going. Mama’s milk gave her a good boost of energy. I mostly left them alone, but Pearl kept coming over to the corner and stomping for my attention, wanted help. I swear she
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Posted under Deer flies, Farm Life, Horses, Mosquitos, Pearl, Polly, Wasps.
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Posted: May 10th, 2007 by
Frank
I’ve wondered for much of my life why I have to be so careful to correctly tie a square knot rather than a granny when it seems that others get them right effortlessly. I have the same trouble with some other kinds of knots ,too. Sometime over the weekend, I had a rush of brains
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Posted under Blackflies, Farm Life, Honey Bees, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Reviews, mega-catch.
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Posted: May 8th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with
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Posted under Bjarki, Blackflies, Chickens, Death, Ewes, Farm Life, First Date Out, Horse Housing, Lambs, Llama, Mosquitos, Sawmill, Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, mega-catch.
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Posted: July 14th, 2003 by
Lisa
Because we spent the majority of the weekend doing stuff out in the new garden, not much got done in the flower gardens at all. So we went out after work today, really just to do a walk-through because we thought the bugs would be awful, and ended up staying outside for a couple of
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Posted under Blackflies, Deadheading, Deer flies, Hens & Chicks, Japanese beetles, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Princess, Vetch, Weeding, Yoda.
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Posted: August 21st, 2002 by
Lisa
We are spending almost every evening out in the gazebo at this point. When the sun starts to go down, it just calls our name. The screened in part was to keep away the bugs, but the mosquito magnet has been working so well that we can sit out there with the door propped open
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Posted under Chrysler Imperial, Compost, Farm Life, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Reviews, Roses, Window Boxes, Worms, gazebo.
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Posted: August 25th, 2001 by
Lisa
When we built the screened gazebo, we knew we’d like it. But wow, we really really like it out there. The view of the window boxes, with the flowers draping over, is really spectacular. We’ve taken to sitting out there in the evening with a glass of wine. We can smell the fragrance of the flowers as well, and it’s all just very special. The screening has worked out very well. The mosquitoes and deer flies are really pretty bad, but they don’t bug us at all sitting behind the screens. We bought two Cobble Mountain Hammock chairs, and they are working out really well. We are almost living out here, lately. We love it.
Posted under Deer flies, Mosquitos, gazebo.
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Posted: July 23rd, 2001 by
Lisa
We poked our noses out to do a few things in the garden today, but the bugs were bad and it was so hot that we came in after about an hour, I think. I noticed that it’s great mindless stuff for me … I wander around, deadhead and weed, poke and prod. I try
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Posted under Blackflies, Bugs, Deer flies, Irrigation, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Outdoor Lights.
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