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    How do you kill wasp's...

    ...if you don't know where there nest is.<br /><br />I got wasp's that are increasingly hanging around my deck, I do not have a clue what is drawing them and worse yet don't know where they are nesting.<br /><br />As of yet nobody has been stung but it is getting to the point ya cannot set out...
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    Dishonest fishfinders & irrefutable proof!

    Occasionly I catch my fishfinder in an outright lie, up until this morning I was never able to prove it. Oh sure theres been times when I thought there was fish marking on it and not a nibble...but how do ya prove they were really fish? Then there are times I am certian when it marks a fish it...
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    My observations and mini rant...Katrina victims

    Seems to me that anyone that had a little inititive or direction in life pre-katrina are doing what has to be done ie...walking out etc<br /><br />It appears to me that the ones that were standing in line at the post office pre-katrina are the ones that are still standing somwhere down there...
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    From Admiral to Galley hand...And HAPPY

    Just a few short years ago I was running my own ship Then I met the wifie and got busted down to Second in command, somehow along came three kids and I found myself way down the chain of command. On July 30 along came the LAST (not latest but LAST) child and I find myself spending a lot of time...
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    Battery acid ?

    I apperantly over filled one and when I charged it and I boiled it over. Now I have a pool of acid in the garage. SO here's the million doller question...How long does it stay caustic and what can ya use to neutralize it. I can mop up a good portion but there is some splatter and some items that...
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    I'm just a common man,

    I just dropped my daughter off at a birthday party, friends of hers from preschool. The home is on a popular lake and the house is newely constructed. This place was easily worth 1.5 million maybe more, There garage is worth more than my house.<br /><br />We do alright, and have a nice place. My...
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    Poutine

    It's what's for lunch today:<br /><br />A generous bed of french fries smothered with thick brown gravy topped with ground beef and complemented with generous amount's of cheese curds left to melt by the heat of the gravy.<br /><br />I believe it to be a Canadian dish but deffinatly in the...
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    Strange weather nationwide

    We are on our seventh or eigth straight day with snow flurries, Two weeks ago we hit 80 degrees.<br /><br />I have grass seed that is already up and portions of the lawn need mowing. But I just cannot bring myself to mow while it is snowing.<br /><br />Seems odd that I am contemplating planting...
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    Scanner's...The radio variety

    We have been wanting one for awhile so I bought a used portable off ebay. I should be recieving it soon and have found most of the local frequancies That we will monitor.<br /><br />Having never owned one I was just curious who has them, what do ya listen to other than the standard police fire...
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    I passed my pee test

    Er make that the ole evinrude passed it's pee test today. Splashed the boat for the first time this season, took the kids for a cruise, stopped at the islands and let them play. Scouted the crappie bays temp sensor showed 49.2 degrees in the dark shallow ones, another day or two of sun and they...
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    Trailer Jack Rant...

    This could easily go under trailer or stupid human tricks but since it is a rant I figured DC.<br /><br />Last fall on the last boat/camping trip I hitched the trailer to the back of the Truck camper and proceeded to load all the kids toys etc up. You know the story...Got distracted and left the...
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    eeboaters new avatar

    That thing is distracting, must be the male gene I carry but she grabs my eye every time past.
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    The Contender, Boxing show.

    Anyone else watching this, I gotta say I am enjoying it and is one of the few things on the networks I even watch. I would prefer less cutaways for crowd reaction during the fights but other than that it is a good show.
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    Iboats,....... money sucking pit!

    Come down to get on Iboats the other night on our sixn year old computer and the monitor was not working. My sis says she is currently not using her computer and she will loan me her monitor, Thanks sis I'll take ya up on that...Plug her monitor in and within 30 seconds the screen goes on that...
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    The FEVER...

    Yeah you know what I'm talking about here, It start's of as a getting the itch and then progress'es....till ya got the full blown fever. Starting to get it real bad. Nothing I can do for a while yet as we are still icebound. The boat is not completly preped for it's first run but I started her...
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    Yet another cat thread..

    We have had some real doozies here when it comes to cat threads but I assure you this is for real.<br /><br />Some guy in Lacrosse Wisconsin is trying to introduce legislation that would allow for the "demise" of the offender once it leaves it's owners turf. Seems he is tired of stray cats...
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    Finally some useful technology.

    Our 15 year old alarm clock bit the dust the otherday so we were due for a replacment. Being the big spenders we are we bought a walmart elcheapo radio alarm for $15 without much regards for all the hoopla on the box. We get home and I pitch the box and plug it in...This thing goes through a 10...
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    Make mine a Burbon and Coke please.

    What's your "adult beverage" of choice, Not what your drinking if someone else is buying but the old standbye. I dont drink often or much but mine is Burbon and Coke and usally the burbon is Jim Beam. While were at it might as well add where ya drink if ya do, for me it is home or whever I'll be...
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    Am I the only stay at home dad?

    I have been around here awhile and never really seen it mentioned. I have never really mentioned in the job threads etc. <br /><br />We have three kids with one on the way, ages 6/4/1/ due in july. For the last 3 years I have considered myself Stay at home. I work some but Mom works 40+ on...
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    56 degrees below zero...How long till June?

    56 below means it could warm up 87 degrees and still make ice, that's almost sureal. :( Fortunate for me that was the low temp north of us about 90 miles, Here it was a balmy -40 degrees below this morning. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I love it here where I'm at...At least 51 weeks a...
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