So, DN is here this week and she's sleeping down in the guestroom. Jojo is sleeping down there with her. Jojo came and woke me up because a giant spider followed them in after they walked the dog and they couldn't get it. That huge thing ran behind my craft stuff and we had to get it out. It took almost an hour to hunt it and kill it but nobody was sleeping until it was dead. And it was too big to squish. I had to get out the DE and dump it on top of it and then I covered it with a glass jar. There is going to be a big mess to clean up tomorrow. And now I'm wide awake.
But they went to bed.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
We have a big spider roaming our house, too. It's a quick sucker. Hopefully it dies today.
Jesse is on his way to traffic court. He got a speeding ticket. I told him to just pay the fine, mom told him not to, and to go to court and try to get it reduced and take the class. She said it'll keep the insurance from going up. I don't believe that's so. And I'm mad she encouraged Jesse to keep it all from for weeks. Who helps a child keep things from their mother? She doesn't see what she did wrong. This isn't the first time either.
Anyway, ya'll have a good day.
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I'm with IKWTDS. DE? Too big to squish? I have spiders in this apartment but they're very small . . . at least the ones I see anyway. I clean up the webs daily and within hours, the webs are back. UGH! Can't wait to move!
Lily, I'm sorry your mom does things like this to you! My mother was the same way. It's hard! Hugs!
IKWTDS, there will be no perkiness today! Stop that, right now dagnabit!
It's a dreary start to the day here . . . again! I guess this is Nate finding his way here. I have a few errands to run today. That's it for me.
I hate those big spiders. We get an occasional wolf spider. Yikes. They are aggressive, too. They won't hide, they attack. There are several cocoons dangling from the bushes in our front yard right now. I will get out my spray can and zap them before they hatch.
My aunt is in town and will be having dinner with us tonight. She has diverticulitis so it's difficult to cook for her. I think I'll take Friday off and take her and my mom to the casino.
We have a big spider roaming our house, too. It's a quick sucker. Hopefully it dies today.
Jesse is on his way to traffic court. He got a speeding ticket. I told him to just pay the fine, mom told him not to, and to go to court and try to get it reduced and take the class. She said it'll keep the insurance from going up. I don't believe that's so. And I'm mad she encouraged Jesse to keep it all from for weeks. Who helps a child keep things from their mother? She doesn't see what she did wrong. This isn't the first time either.
Anyway, ya'll have a good day.
If he doesn't have any prior tickets, they will likely reduce it to less than 15 over, which means no points, so insurance doesn't go up. I have to agree with her advice on going, but not on her keeping it from you.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
DE - food grade diotomaceous earth. People and pet safe but deadly to bugs. Bugs with exoskeletons get basically cut up like a thousand little razor blades, and bugs like spiders get all the moisture zapped out of them and they die of dehydration.
Pest control
Diatomite is used as an insecticide, due to its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties.[10] The fine powder absorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of insects' exoskeletons, causing them to dehydrate. Arthropods die as a result of the water pressure deficiency, based on Fick's law of diffusion. This also works against gastropods and is commonly employed in gardening to defeat slugs. However, since slugs inhabit humid environments, efficacy is very low. It is sometimes mixed with an attractant or other additives to increase its effectiveness. The shape of the diatoms contained in a deposit has not been proven to affect their functionality when it comes to the absorption of liquids; however, certain applications, such as that for slugs and snails, do work best when a particular shaped diatom is used. For example, in the case of slugs and snails large, spiny diatoms work best to lacerate the epithelium of the mollusk. Diatom shells will work to some degree on the vast majority of animals that undergo ecdysis in shedding cuticle, such as arthropods or nematodes. It may have some effect also on lophotrochozoans, such as mollusks or annelids.
Medical-grade diatomite has been studied for its efficacy as a deworming agent in cattle; in both studies cited the groups being treated with diatomaceous earth did not fare any better than control groups.[11][12] It is commonly used in lieu of boric acid, and can be used to help control and possibly eliminate bed bug, house dust mite, ****roach, ant and flea infestations.[13] This material has wide application for insect control in grain storage.[14]
In order to be effective as an insecticide, diatomaceous earth must be uncalcinated (i.e., it must not be heat-treated prior to application)[15] and have a mean particle size below about 12 µm (i.e., food-grade – see below).
Although considered to be relatively low-risk, pesticides containing diatomaceous earth are not exempt from regulation in the United States under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and must be registered with the Environmental Protection Agency.[16]
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Nothing was reduced. He has to go to driving school, $40, and pay the $180 fine. Mom was thinking she could go get it dismissed.
Jesse was in a 55mph zone that reduces to a 45mph zone on a pretty steep downgrade. He didn't get slowed down going down the hill. Officer said he was doing 65 but he wasn't parked, he was traveling the opposite direction, passed Jesse, and had to turn around to ticket Jesse.
First offense for Jesse.
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It happens. Your mother should not have encouraged him to keep a secret about it from you.
My mother likes to have "secrets" with the boys. She wants them to trust her, and feel they can come to her. But she tells me in secret, too. And I keep her secret to encourage that trust. I think the difference is she is not telling the boys to keep the secret from me, she just listens to them.
I've never been very trustful of my mom. She likes to tell things that should be private, and she likes to withhold pertinent information.
Then she likes to use that information against me.
She doesn't see anything wrong with it at all.
It's just one thing in a long history of things.
It's also because she is extremely insecure.
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Nothing was reduced. He has to go to driving school, $40, and pay the $180 fine. Mom was thinking she could go get it dismissed.
Jesse was in a 55mph zone that reduces to a 45mph zone on a pretty steep downgrade. He didn't get slowed down going down the hill. Officer said he was doing 65 but he wasn't parked, he was traveling the opposite direction, passed Jesse, and had to turn around to ticket Jesse.
First offense for Jesse.
Good for the fines and punishment, perhaps it will teach him. When DS was that age he had one ticket after another. As a mother I was scared everyday he would get in a bad accident. At the time his "psuedo" step father was a Fire fighter from a family of fire fighters and cops. Lots of the early tickets were "lost". When they stopped being lost, his insurance rates were through the roof. I paid not a dime toward those premiums.
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Nothing was reduced. He has to go to driving school, $40, and pay the $180 fine. Mom was thinking she could go get it dismissed.
Jesse was in a 55mph zone that reduces to a 45mph zone on a pretty steep downgrade. He didn't get slowed down going down the hill. Officer said he was doing 65 but he wasn't parked, he was traveling the opposite direction, passed Jesse, and had to turn around to ticket Jesse.
First offense for Jesse.
Good for the fines and punishment, perhaps it will teach him. When DS was that age he had one ticket after another. As a mother I was scared everyday he would get in a bad accident. At the time his "psuedo" step father was a Fire fighter from a family of fire fighters and cops. Lots of the early tickets were "lost". When they stopped being lost, his insurance rates were through the roof. I paid not a dime toward those premiums.
I'm not saying he shouldn't pay the fine.
I'm saying it would have been $40 less is mom had stayed out of it.
On another note, we have a lot of strange speed zones here. A lot of roads with different speed limits for each direction. Hills that have a big drop in speed limit just as you start down. Areas where the speed limit changes for no obvious reason and then goes right back up.
I think the officer did not have a clear idea of Jesse's speed and guessed at it. I'm not saying Jesse wasn't speeding, I just don't believe he was going 65 as he was applying his brakes all the way down the hill.
I agree with a fine. It's the order of events involving my mom that bothers me most.
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