Thought I would show you a quick pic I snapped of my buddy's horse barn going up. It's looking really good, and I especially like the horse stall hardware... He is hiring the barn done, but like myself, has an endless supply of other jobs to go with it all, and completely getting his property ready for horses and other critters, which will include a horse arena... Very cool...
In addition to the Boracare, which is a termite treatment, I also sprayed for various bugs. If the chemical police find me out, they will accuse me of not using the product according to the label... Uh, yes, that's because I am actually trying to kill some pretty mean critters....
Here is a scorpion that bounced down about 3 feet in front of me. He was in the process of not being too happy about his new chemical environment. I expedited his death... He is about 3 inches long. Super creepy, but scorpions have something like 8 eyeballs.... eh???
Next critter. Never seen one before, but my buddy with the horse barn above told me there was a Black Widow living in his water meter box. I found this one hanging out on our nice iron front door. Tried to take a decent picture, but that didn't happen... Oh, you'll never believe this... Ready.... I took a flashlight to my meter box tonight to shut the water off for a few days (the lines have plenty of pressurized air in them, so no reason risking a deer or something stepping on the PVC lines that are above ground into the house... I digress). So, back to the valve box, at night, which the other night in the dark I reached in there and was feeling around for the shutoff valve when I couldn't get a wrench on it... Well, tonight, there was a great big BLACK WIDOW spider in there... Damn....
And what the heck is this thing... Scared me half to death. Some kind of bug I have never seen. About 4 inches long, looked like a cross between a frog and a grasshopper. He was a FREAK.... Can anybody tell me what this critter is???
So, story for the day... Nail in my right front pickup tire... Slow leak. Take it to (name of major tire people to be not released) and by the way, can you rotate the fronts to the rear... Sure. So, I come back an hour later to find they have sheared off a lug. So, they ask who did the work previously and who would tighten up the lug that tight.... The Toyota factory, I reply, never had a wheel off yet. So, can I see the lug. Yes, it sheared off when we attempted to remove it... I'm checking this thing out, trying to remember some metallurgy classes from long ago, a twisted shear fracture... Going to be 100 dollars to take off my wheel and hub (disk brakes) and get some new parts... I'm not happy.
OK, short story long, I get this thing home and chuck it into the vice so I can attempt to remove the broken stud from the nut... Big pipe wrench... guess what... it comes off with my fingers. I am P_SS_D off huge. They lied to me, because if it was loose, they were attempting to put the thing on, not remove it. Further study of the twisted shear, and sure enough, sheared in the clockwise direction.
After a nice little 5 minute one way phone conversation, the shop will be repairing my wheel with absolutely no charge...and they will be happy to do it... GGGGGGGRRRRRRR....
OK, enough of my rant. Finished (yes, actually finished something) the central vac low voltage wiring, got everything all covered up and ready... Also got the solar lines into the garage last night and today, so that is ready to go.
Also sorted more wires in the attic tonight, and also flashed the front door where the now dead black widow used to hang out.
Another thing about bugs... Scorpions and Spiders do not clean themselves, so they are very hard to kill...who knew? Other bugs clean themselves and in the process, ingest the poison very quickly and die promptly. I saw some spiders still alive tonight, but only dead scorpions... Even the wasps and mud dabbers were mostly dead. Hornets dead too.
Next week.... Spray foam insulation... I'll have to do some video for that....
Have a great weekend...
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