The Ice Storm Cometh!

[Dftodd]

And eggs.... we NEED french toast during emergenices!

Don't forget the Cresent rolls and lil' smokies. We gotta have our pigs in a blanket

 

[Dftodd]

Peanut butter is an emergency staple. It's been so long since I've had an emergency that I threw 2 jars out this fall.

Thats something that gets tossed out more then used in our house. We'll get some good jam when we visit the Amish store. So then we'll get a hankering for some PB&J sandwiches.

We'll open the peanut butter and jam. Have a couple sandwiches. Then promptly forget about the peanut butter.

Jam will get finished off with a couple rounds of biscuits.

 

[MossRoad]

I go through about a jar every 3-4 weeks.

 

[Molalla1]

Thats something that gets tossed out more then used in our house. We'll get some good jam when we visit the Amish store. So then we'll get a hankering for some PB&J sandwiches.

We'll open the peanut butter and jam. Have a couple sandwiches. Then promptly forget about the peanut butter.

Jam will get finished off with a couple rounds of biscuits.

Don't toss it out use it for mice bate . . . . I myself don't like it.

 

[Dftodd]

Don't toss it out use it for mice bate . . . . I myself don't like it.

Sold our place. Moved to a nice brand new rental in the city. Garage door seals tight. Air handler is in the attic, so it cuts down on mice coming in through the condensation drain.

Darn dog would sniff out all the mouse traps at the old house if I used peanut butter. Finally just set up a water trap in the garage. And another in the AC cabinet.

I would just check the cabinet every other day and remove the bodies in the winter. They stopped coming in once the ac was turned back on.

 

[Oaktree]

I just measured 9 inches here and it's about done snowing. So much for the 16-22" they were teasing us with.


The storms seem to be following the coast this year. Points north and west where they depend on snow for skiing and sledding aren't getting it the way they would like to see it.

It's been that way for the past few years. Southern N.H. will get buried, we'll get 3".
This storm was different...for once we got more than they predicted. Forecast was calling for 8-12, I measured 14" this morning, probably got another 2 or 3 during the day.

 

[Oaktree]

Sold our place. Moved to a nice brand new rental in the city. Garage door seals tight. Air handler is in the attic, so it cuts down on mice coming in through the condensation drain.

My house is almost 200 years old, so you'd think it'd be a full blown welcome mat for mice, but we actually get very few, and almost none in the house itself. Having 2 cats helps, but they're not that good!

 

[Dftodd]

My house is almost 200 years old, so you'd think it'd be a full blown welcome mat for mice, but we actually get very few, and almost none in the house itself. Having 2 cats helps, but they're not that good!

My house was 30+ years old. When we first moved in, we were over run with mice.

I had the dogs chase one mouse right past us. The bugger slipped under the baseboards and into the wall.

When we redid the flooring I pulled out the 30yo baseboards. Filled any holes I found with the low expanding foam.

Installed the new laminate flooring right up to the edge of the drywall. This gave it the gap it needed around the edges. Let it settle in for a couple weeks.

I then dropped in new baseboards right tight to the floor.

Every now and then we could hear the mice scratching against the baseboards trying to get inside. But no more mice inside the house.

When filling holes behind the baseboards I found a couple of causeway's where they had had free rain to waltz right into the house.

After that I would find some dropping in the AC cabinet. Determined they were coming in through the condensation drain for the AC. Thats when I installed the water trap in the bottom of the cabinet. I would find a mouse in the water trap every couple of weeks during the winter. None in the summer months when the ac was running.

 

[Jstpssng]

Mice are pernacious little buggers. This winter I've dug them out of my snowsled, my tractor, and the engine compartment of my pickup. When I had my last company truck a mouse got into the heater box and died. I couldn't get at it so had to park the truck until the stench went away.

 

[Molalla1]

My house is almost 200 years old, so you'd think it'd be a full blown welcome mat for mice, but we actually get very few, and almost none in the house itself. Having 2 cats helps, but they're not that good!

Ours is @ about 112 years old . . . get mice (a few) every 3 years or so (winter).