micky wrote:

> In alt.home.repair, on 07 Mar 2024 21:48:46 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
> <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
>
> >On 2024-03-07, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> >> In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 6 Mar 2024 17:10:16 -0500, Ed P
> >><esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 3/6/2024 5:05 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>> On 2024-03-06, Ralph Mowery <rmowery42@charter.net> wrote:
> >>>>> In article <65e8b5d0$0$2077922$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
> >>>>> hamilton@invalid.com says...
> > > > > > >
> >>>>>>> I think flippers are pretty easy to find.
> > > > > > >
> >>>>>> Only if they think they can make money. It's a crappy
> two-bedroom >>>>>> house on a crawlspace. Still, I considered I
> might simply cease to >>>>>> pay the property taxes and make it the
> county's problem. If I'm >>>>>> willing to do that, I'm also willing
> to let it go for bottom >>>>>> dollar.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> >>>>> Depencing on where the house is, the land may be worth more
> than the >>>>> house.
> >>>>
> >>>> In a crappy downmarket Detroit suburb. The lot isn't even wide
> >>>> enough for a driveway next to the house (as is customary with all
> >>>> other lots in the neighborhood).
> >>>>
> >>>>> It may be better to flip it yourself.
> >>>>
> >>>> No. No. No. I'm done killing myself with big projects. It
> > >
> >> I don't blame you. Just tthe thought of having to search for and
> call >> more than one number to find a willing flipper wears me out.
> >
> > "Flip it myself" means I do all the damned work, not sell it to
> > a flipper.
>
> I got that. I'm saying that even calling to find a flipper is too
> much for me, let alone doing it myself.

I get ya. Mom used to buy places like that and us 3 kids and her
'flipped' them though that wasn't a term in the 60's and 70's. It's
how Mom made a living to support us 4. I think it was between 15 and
20 houses. Call it a unique childhood. While I was learning at
school, I was learning other skills at home.

Stood me in good stead on my own places later in life but now I'm a lot
older and disabled, sad to say. Gosh I had a screaming good time in my
26 years Navy but it all adds up to a toll on the body. No regrets
though, I've had too much fun!

Carol

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:19:00 -0500, ? Mighty Wannabe
? <@.> wrote:

>micky wrote on 3/8/2024 1:23 PM:
>> In alt.home.repair, on 08 Mar 2024 10:37:36 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
>> <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-03-07, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>>>> In alt.home.repair, on 07 Mar 2024 21:48:46 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
>>>> <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2024-03-07, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 6 Mar 2024 17:10:16 -0500, Ed P
>>>>>> <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/6/2024 5:05 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2024-03-06, Ralph Mowery <rmowery42@charter.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <65e8b5d0$0$2077922$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
>>>>>>>>> hamilton@invalid.com says...
>>>>>>>>>>> I think flippers are pretty easy to find.
>>>>>>>>>> Only if they think they can make money. It's a crappy two-bedroom
>>>>>>>>>> house on a crawlspace. Still, I considered I might simply cease to
>>>>>>>>>> pay the property taxes and make it the county's problem. If I'm
>>>>>>>>>> willing to do that, I'm also willing to let it go for bottom
>>>>>>>>>> dollar.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Depencing on where the house is, the land may be worth more than the
>>>>>>>>> house.
>>>>>>>> In a crappy downmarket Detroit suburb. The lot isn't even wide
>>>>>>>> enough for a driveway next to the house (as is customary with all
>>>>>>>> other lots in the neighborhood).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It may be better to flip it yourself.
>>>>>>>> No. No. No. I'm done killing myself with big projects. It
>>>>>> I don't blame you. Just tthe thought of having to search for and call
>>>>>> more than one number to find a willing flipper wears me out.
>>>>> "Flip it myself" means I do all the damned work, not sell it to
>>>>> a flipper.
>>>> I got that. I'm saying that even calling to find a flipper is too much
>>>> for me, let alone doing it myself.
>>> I thought you were being sarcastic.
>>>
>>> Do you have anyone else's estate to deal with?
>> My brother is 7 years older than I. If he goes first, I'm the executor.
>> I really should read the whole, long will and discuss with him anything
>> I don't understand, but I haven't.
>
>
>You should never ride in the same vehicle, fly in the same flight, or
>use the same elevator with your brother at the same time, just in case.
>
>I heard the president and the vice president use similar prudent
>precautions.

I follow part of your advice. I never travel with the president or vice
president.

On Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:56:07 +0000, cshenk wrote:

> Virginia never had much trouble with that but I did notice few fireflies
> at dusk now. They say the mosquito mists the city uses on uses on us
> are the cause. You can't opt out of it.

There isn't a lot about the east I miss but fireflies is one of them. The
last time I saw them was at the Breaks Interstate Park a few years ago.
The rhododendron were also gorgeous. The downside was after the firefly
show was over it started raining at around 2AM. It had been raining for
that last thousand miles but I wasn't camping out.

On Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:53:41 -0500, micky wrote:

> They were going to show us how to survive in the woods. One of the
> foods was cooked acorns. Apparently they are pretty cood. But you have
> to simmer the pot for iirc 12 hours, and you need to gather wood and
> water for allthat boiling. Seemed pretty impractical.

White oak acorns aren't too bad. You can't boil red oak acorns long enough
to get the tannic acid out.

On 8 Mar 2024 20:52:34 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> White oak acorns aren't too bad. You can't boil red oak acorns long enough
> to get the tannic acid out.

Is it now about oaks, you abnormal endlessly gossiping senile bigmouth?

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On 8 Mar 2024 20:48:18 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> There isn't a lot about the east I miss but fireflies is one of them.

Is it now about fireflies, you subnormal senile shithead and bigmouth?

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On 3/8/2024 2:19 PM, 😎 Mighty Wannabe ✅ wrote:
> micky wrote on 3/8/2024 1:23 PM:

>> My brother is 7 years older than I.  If he goes first, I'm the executor.
>> I really should read the whole, long will and discuss with him anything
>> I don't understand, but I haven't.
>
>
> You should never ride in the same vehicle, fly in the same flight, or
> use the same elevator with your brother at the same time, just in case.
>
> I heard the president and the vice president use similar prudent
> precautions.
>

For a better, happier, trip, include your mother-in-law in that scenario.

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 16:51:19 -0500, Ed P wrote:

> For a better, happier, trip, include your mother-in-law in that
> scenario.

You might even want to book all your in-laws on the same flight. Is
anybody still flying 737-MAXs?

It was too long ago for me to remember the details but a company lost most
of its brain trust when they all were on the same flight. After that
companies started spreading travel plans out.

On 9 Mar 2024 03:52:29 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> It was too long ago for me to remember the details

....but you will babble about it anyway, right? As per usual. LOL

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rbowman wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:56:07 +0000, cshenk wrote:
>
> > Virginia never had much trouble with that but I did notice few
> > fireflies at dusk now. They say the mosquito mists the city uses
> > on uses on us are the cause. You can't opt out of it.
>
> There isn't a lot about the east I miss but fireflies is one of them.
> The last time I saw them was at the Breaks Interstate Park a few
> years ago. The rhododendron were also gorgeous. The downside was
> after the firefly show was over it started raining at around 2AM. It
> had been raining for that last thousand miles but I wasn't camping
> out.

Ah well. I think it might be just my area of Virginia Beach. The
great dysmal swamp is here and a lot of close to stagnant waterways.
Lots of mosquitoes.

On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 22:27:58 +0000, cshenk wrote:

> Ah well. I think it might be just my area of Virginia Beach. The great
> dysmal swamp is here and a lot of close to stagnant waterways.
> Lots of mosquitoes.

George Washington wanted to drain the swamp but it didn't work for him
either. I've canoed around in the Okefenokee but somehow 'dismal swamp'
doesn't attract tourists any more than 'pine barrens'.

Having experienced hordes of mosquitoes in the wetter northern states I'm
glad Montana is a little too arid for their taste. They seem to flourish
for a couple of weeks and then they're gone in most places. No black flies
or chiggers either.

On 3/9/2024 10:55 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 22:27:58 +0000, cshenk wrote:
>
>> Ah well. I think it might be just my area of Virginia Beach. The great
>> dysmal swamp is here and a lot of close to stagnant waterways.
>> Lots of mosquitoes.
>
> George Washington wanted to drain the swamp but it didn't work for him
> either. I've canoed around in the Okefenokee but somehow 'dismal swamp'
> doesn't attract tourists any more than 'pine barrens'.
>
> Having experienced hordes of mosquitoes in the wetter northern states I'm
> glad Montana is a little too arid for their taste. They seem to flourish
> for a couple of weeks and then they're gone in most places. No black flies
> or chiggers either.

I've never seen a mosquito in FL. They do spray a couple of times a
year. Come May, the love bugs come out for a couple of weeks. You have
to clean the windshield but they don't bite.

Take a look at the front of this car. I've never seen one that bad but
they exist

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/lovebug-season-is-here-and-no-they-werent-created-to-eat-mosquitoes

On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 23:17:52 -0500, Ed P wrote:

> I've never seen a mosquito in FL.

You don't get out much, do you?

https://npmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/everglades-flamingo-hiking-trails-
map.gif

Drive down to Flamingo and take the Coastal Prairie trail out through the
mangroves. Every step you take they rise up in a cloud in front of you.

Then there are the no-see-ums

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/life/columnists/carol-cloud-bailey/
2020/06/17/its-summer-florida-and-no-see-ums-flying-biting-midges-sand-
flies/3196181001/

I camped at Fernandina Beach, which I think is part of the Ft. Clinch
State park now. I had an Eureka Draw-Tite tent which had a floor, door,
and screened ventilation openings. It could keep Adirondack mosquitoes out
but was no match for the midges. The sun went down and they attacked. I
retreated to my car, a black 1960 Plymouth. That was great until the sun
came up and it turned into a slow cooker. I'd driven to FL to see my girl
friend the day I graduated from college so it would be early June.

I also recall mosquitoes when I camped in the Ocala and Apalachicola
forests.

I can't remember where it was but it was a mangrove nature preserve. The
mosquitoes attacked in the parking lot but once you were on the boardwalks
through the grove the mosquito fish were on the job. I don't know what
they lived on besides mosquitoes since they had exterminated them.

The Highland Hammock State Park at Sebring was also pleasantly bug free.

On 10 Mar 2024 03:55:33 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> George Washington

Even George Washington would have thought that you are a pathological
bigmouth, lowbrowwoman!

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On 10 Mar 2024 06:32:55 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

> You don't get out much, do you?
>
You don't get many people to listen to your always grandiloquent blather and
effeminate gossiping, do you, gossip girl? <BG>

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In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 09 Mar 2024 22:27:58 +0000, "cshenk"
<cshenk@virginia-beach.net> wrote:

>
>Ah well. I think it might be just my area of Virginia Beach. The
>great dysmal swamp is here and a lot of close to stagnant waterways.
>Lots of mosquitoes.

I went boating in the Great Dismal Swamp once. About 1982. I was smart
enough to row upstream first in case I got too tired to row back, I
could just coast. I didn't find it dismal. Unfortunately when I got
back, they had just painted the showers and I couldn't use one.

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:46:46 -0500, Ed P posted for all of us to digest...

>
> On 3/5/2024 9:37 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:38:04 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 3 Mar 2024 13:13:41 -0500, Ed Pawlowski
> >> <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>>>>> micky wrote on 3/3/2024 12:19 AM:
> >>>>>>>>> In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 2 Mar 2024 23:52:45 -0500, Ed Pawlowski
> >>>>>>>>> <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Not sure if it is Thunderbird or Blocknews, but hardly anything
> >>>>>>>>>> coming
> >>>>>>>>>> through the past 24 hours or so.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Only one I saw today was from rbowman at 7:28
> >>>
> >>> Seems better but older posts are gone. I'm guessing it was a blocknews
> >>> problem
> >>
> >> So I guess that means I got some Ed didn't get because I dl'd earlier
> >> than he did, and in between they disappeared from servers.
> >
> > Even if they did temporarily disappear from your server, that wouldn't affect
> > what you see in Agent unless you were to perform a purge. It also wouldn't
> > affect any other news servers.
> >
>
> Still something strange with Thunderbird. One one computer I get
> everything OK, on the other, it will not connect with one of the groups.
> I've uninstalled it, reinstalled, cleared cache, etc.

Are you still signed in with one computer when you try to connect with the
other? Maybe (probably) they only allow one instance at a time.

Get back to us.

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On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 08:24:56 -0500, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to
digest...

>
> Did not see them, or any on another group that would usually have 100 a
> day. I just saw yours now.
>

Unfortunate.

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On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:30:01 +0000, cshenk posted for all of us to digest...

>
> micky wrote:
>
> > In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 3 Mar 2024 08:24:56 -0500, Ed Pawlowski
> > <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/3/2024 12:19 AM, micky wrote:
> > >> In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 2 Mar 2024 23:52:45 -0500, Ed Pawlowski
> > >> <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Not sure if it is Thunderbird or Blocknews, but hardly anything
> > coming >>> through the past 24 hours or so.
> > > > >
> > >>> Only one I saw today was from rbowman at 7:28
> > >>
> > >> Since 1:30PM there ere 3 from cshenk and another from skid and
> > Frank. >> That's it.
> > >>
> > >> Maybe we could pay some people to post, get some posters from
> > India, or >> get some illegal aliens to do it in return for amnesty?
> > >
> > >
> > > Did not see them, or any on another group that would usually have
> > > 100 a day. I just saw mine and yours now.
> >
> > I don't know what that means. Very strange. I was thinking that
> > maybe they sort so high up that you didn't notice them but I'm sorted
> > now based on the date of the first post in a thread, oldest first,
> > and the thread 3 of those posts are in is badgolferman's Statistics
> > thread**. Although that was posted on Friday***, it's still the
> > thread that immediately precedes this one.
> >
> > ***But cshenk posted once in it, and skid and bowman posted in it all
> > on Saturday afternoon.
> >
> > **alt.home.repair newsgroup statistics for 02/2024
>
> Actually, maybe I missed it in the stats? I didn't see me in them but
> I did see xananews hit 9 posts? Maybe you have to post 10 or more to
> show? That or the person running the archive of posters put me in the
> 'bozo bin' because they think any ;new poster has to be a troll'.
>
> I'm actually a returning poster. Active here about 2007 until probably
> 2011 or so. cshenk@techemail.com or cshenk1@cox.net likely then.

I remember you.

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On 3/26/2024 4:49 PM, Hiram T Schwantz wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:46:46 -0500, Ed P posted for all of us to digest...
>
>>
>> On 3/5/2024 9:37 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:
>>> On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:38:04 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 3 Mar 2024 13:13:41 -0500, Ed Pawlowski
>>>> <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> micky wrote on 3/3/2024 12:19 AM:
>>>>>>>>>>> In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 2 Mar 2024 23:52:45 -0500, Ed Pawlowski
>>>>>>>>>>> <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Not sure if it is Thunderbird or Blocknews, but hardly anything
>>>>>>>>>>>> coming
>>>>>>>>>>>> through the past 24 hours or so.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Only one I saw today was from rbowman at 7:28
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems better but older posts are gone. I'm guessing it was a blocknews
>>>>> problem
>>>>
>>>> So I guess that means I got some Ed didn't get because I dl'd earlier
>>>> than he did, and in between they disappeared from servers.
>>>
>>> Even if they did temporarily disappear from your server, that wouldn't affect
>>> what you see in Agent unless you were to perform a purge. It also wouldn't
>>> affect any other news servers.
>>>
>>
>> Still something strange with Thunderbird. One one computer I get
>> everything OK, on the other, it will not connect with one of the groups.
>> I've uninstalled it, reinstalled, cleared cache, etc.
>
> Are you still signed in with one computer when you try to connect with the
> other? Maybe (probably) they only allow one instance at a time.
>
> Get back to us.
>

Blocknews was having issues, but seems to be working OK now.

On 06 Mar 2024 09:48:32 GMT, Cindy Hamilton posted for all of us to digest...

> When my mother dies, I'll sell her house (in which I lived from
> age 9 to 18). I don't care what happens to it, either. I'm hoping
> I can sell it to a flipper who's willing to dispose of all her stuff.
> Otherwise I'll have to rent a dumpster.
>

If you don't clean it out the house value will reflect that. Compare the value
of the house before and after clean-out. There are plenty of clean-out services
that will do it (Got junk). It's not a pleasant task. Also depends on how you
want to play the inheritance taxes...

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On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 16:51:19 -0500, Ed P posted for all of us to digest...

>
> On 3/8/2024 2:19 PM, ? Mighty Wannabe ? wrote:
> > micky wrote on 3/8/2024 1:23 PM:
>
> >> My brother is 7 years older than I.  If he goes first, I'm the executor.
> >> I really should read the whole, long will and discuss with him anything
> >> I don't understand, but I haven't.
> >
> >
> > You should never ride in the same vehicle, fly in the same flight, or
> > use the same elevator with your brother at the same time, just in case.
> >
> > I heard the president and the vice president use similar prudent
> > precautions.
> >
>
> For a better, happier, trip, include your mother-in-law in that scenario.

Another one slipped in!

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On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:59:43 +0000, cshenk posted for all of us to digest...

>
> I get ya. Mom used to buy places like that and us 3 kids and her
> 'flipped' them though that wasn't a term in the 60's and 70's. It's
> how Mom made a living to support us 4. I think it was between 15 and
> 20 houses. Call it a unique childhood. While I was learning at
> school, I was learning other skills at home.
>
> Stood me in good stead on my own places later in life but now I'm a lot
> older and disabled, sad to say. Gosh I had a screaming good time in my
> 26 years Navy but it all adds up to a toll on the body. No regrets
> though, I've had too much fun!
>

Thank you for your service.

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 09:04:38 -0500, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to
digest...

>
> On 3/6/2024 9:01 AM, micky wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:46:14 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Have you noticed that when you drive on the highway in the summer, there
> > used to be lots of bugs squashed against the windshield, but that
> > doesnt' happen anymore? I think it's observable that the insect
> > population is dropping.
>
>
> They moved most of the insects to government supplied nesting in the
> national parks. Part of Biden's migration plan.

Whatever happened to the killer bees?

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