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peculiar_lady2 -> RE: SAHM/W Support - Part III (8/1/2008 4:41:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: zmanfan38
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ORIGINAL: peculiar_lady2
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We're thinking about going to a splash pad here in town if it doesn't rain. Do you all have those? They are fountains where you go get wet and play...usually in a park. We discovered them last Summer. Never heard of them before. We love them, but there are occasional cases of people getting tummy viruses if they don't keep them chlorinated enough. Eww ...I might have just talked myself out of going.
we used to go to the one at DW all the time after church sunday afternoons (cause they are not very busy then usually...and with seasons passes it was free to get in)
I totally forgot about the one at Dollywood! But we always have season passes and I don't remember seeing it the last few years. Something tells me they replaced it with something else.
Have you been to Splash Country? It's Dolly's water park that's beside DW. We still haven't been...I can not believe that! Tickets are pretty high and after you've paid for DW season passes, you kind of don't want to fork over much more money. I hear it's great.
Last time I was there it was up by the Slidewinder...right by the bee hive (but I know they were talking of changing that whole area when I was there last). we used to hang out there all the time because the mom of the kids I was a nanny for worked at the slide.
yes...I have been to SC...many times!!! We had dual park season passes so we went there about three or four times a month at least. I LOVED it...esp the lazy river and the kids section.
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ORIGINAL: Room2Grow
Sarah- I never even thought about the boots- what a pain for you guys... You could always have him tape bread bags over his boots while he works[8|] Or...duct tape patches that he can remove when he leaves the motor pool. Yes, ironing bdu's is/was a PAIN, but these new ones are yuck. They are also changing them way too often- toss salad (what I named them as a child when they first came out- it stuck in our family), then desert cams, now satellite- it gets pretty expensive when you have to buy them yourself! The berets do not make all our guys look like special forces either- to be middle aged and special forces, one must actually be special forces...otherwise you are just a middle aged man in a beret...
Special Forces went through the roof when the new berets came out....that used to be a status symbol of all your hard work to earn your beret...now all the army has them. It made SF and regular soldiers very mad that they basically took the pride out of that for SF's.
mice/rats...let me tell you, when you have seen a swamp rat then a regular rat looks mighty small and wimpy in comparison!!! Those things are HUGE!!!!! I grew up on the border of Louisiana in swamp country, and my parents house was up off the ground on 3ft "pillars"....and across the street from a river, so they lived under the house no matter what we did. They were huge....bodies alone could get up to about 18-24 inches long...plus the tail. Red beady eyes. really freaky at night. I saw a friend on mine unload a shot gun into one once and it didn't hardly phase it...it just waddled off. He and his brothers would shoot them all the time because they would attack and kill the Emu's that they raised.
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ORIGINAL: isaacsmom
It's so hard to keep them out of the house, here. We're surrounded by pasture and have an old house. Do any of you use the electronic plug-in things that emit the ultrasonic waves that are supposed to keep critters away? MIL uses them and she swears by them. So does my Mema. The exterminator said he doesn't think they're effective (of course, he would say that, LOL). I bought some but haven't opened them yet. Oh, my mom has them, too, and they haven't had mice problems.
I haven't used them, but have been thinking about getting some...let me know if they work, ok?
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