Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt Texas has cockroaches!! I saw a thread over in WE were Texas hunters were flying in helecopters & shooting at pigs!
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt Some of them are big enough! I've got a really gross cockroach/Jungle Cruise story but, I don't want to ruin you dinner!
Originally Posted By MPierce The only way a cockroach could ruin my dinner is if I found half of one in what I was eating.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt OK...must have been July 4th, 1979 or so. My older sister & I were standing in what seemed to be a 2 hr line for JC. At that point the silly signs that are supposed to entertain you while you stand in line for two hours have lost their humor. Being a Yank & having never seen such a large insect, I am fascinated/hororfied by this ENORMOUS creature that is crawling on the ceiling above our stagnant line. OMG!! it falls! It falls down the low cut shirt of a very "blessed" woman! Without batting a sweet filled eye, she whipped out "the girls" & flicked that big sucker onto the floor! OMG!! I never saw anything like that before or since!!
Originally Posted By MPierce Probably a tree roach. They are pretty hard to kill with pesticides. Your best bet is to fill a bowl with beer. That's suppose to kill them. I don't know if it does or not. I usually drink all the beer out of the bowl before I get a roach.
Originally Posted By dshyates Down there they call them Palmetto Bugs. Everywhere else they call them Big FN Roaches.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad Yea, beer kills slugs like crazy. I finally found a good use for schaffer light.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad dshyates...thanks for the link. Keystone looks great. I'll probably go to Snowshoe first. My brother is a ski instructor so he can get deals sometimes.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad Today was mid 70's. Monday was snow and tuesday in the 20's and today was shorts and a t-shirt. Unbelievable
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Yeah, but too much salt and you kill your plants. << Worse than that, to much beer, and you have a bunch of obnoxious plants.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> dshyates...thanks for the link. Keystone looks great. I'll probably go to Snowshoe first. My brother is a ski instructor so he can get deals sometimes. << If you want a great ski trip CDD go to Utah in early April. Small crowds, and 200" bases. Park City, and Brighton are both good.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad <<<If you want a great ski trip CDD go to Utah in early April. Small crowds, and 200" bases. Park City, and Brighton are both good>>> This all sounds good IF someday ever comes