October 3, 20187 yr Popular Post 3 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said: I live close enough to know a couple of other criteria should be considered as enticement too ... warm year around and dryer climate...preferably without mosquitoes, snakes or other critters which might consume pets or people. we don't meet your criteria.. WHEW!!!
October 3, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Stick486 said: we don't meet your criteria.. WHEW!!! Oh yeah, add one more...an altitude that has sufficient oxygen levels
October 4, 20187 yr 6 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said: Oh yeah, add one more...an altitude that has sufficient oxygen levels looking better all the time..
October 4, 20187 yr 18 minutes ago, Stick486 said: looking better all the time.. Don't worry your neighborhood is safe...
October 4, 20187 yr Popular Post I feel your pain, Gramps! I can see the appeal of Florida to the "Snowbirds" that frequent here in the "Winter". Now that my mother is gone and I ended up with the house, I'm thinking of altering my plans and pull off a reverse. Florida in the "Winter" and the mountains of eastern Tennessee in the summer. I put up with black bears and rattlesnakes when I was a kid...however, I used to trout fish a couple of streams in sneakers and cut offs that nobody would fish because of "the snakes" ...never saw one, or was ever bothered by them. I've been "eaten to death" by mosquitoes and gnats in the swamps and marshes of Louisiana and had more then one encounter with a territorial cotton mouth. The one thing I just won't put up with is the heat and humidity...enough is enough. Thirty five years of the H/H is my breaking point. I'll remind you, however, there is no ideal spot for weather. Snow and ice storms in the north, hurricanes in the east and south, tornadoes in the Midwest, and ground shakers and mud slides in the west. Snakes, mosquitoes, gnats, bears, lions, wolves, alligators, et. al. They are all over the places. Pick yer poison! Just like the old saying, "...faster, cheaper and better"...pick any two of the three, but you won't get all three at the same time. Edited October 4, 20187 yr by schnewj
October 4, 20187 yr 4 minutes ago, schnewj said: I've been "eaten to death so yor a reincarnation.. eh...
October 4, 20187 yr Popular Post 8 minutes ago, Stick486 said: so yor a reincarnation.. eh... There were times I felt like it...one thing you never wanted was for your boat to break down and get stuck in the marsh overnight! Every gnat within 20 miles came for the buffet. The mosquitoes in LA aren't just big, they wear old time leather flying helmets, fly up to the door, knock, and then let themselves in...
October 4, 20187 yr Popular Post Did a few TDY tours in Alaska. While refueling B 47s, one of our crew was carried off by a couple of those Alaskan sized mosquitoes. As they flew off, I heard them talking. One asked if they should eat him right away or take him back to the camp. The other one replied that they should eat him now because, if they carried him back the bigguns would get him. Edited October 4, 20187 yr by Gene Howe
October 4, 20187 yr Popular Post 19 hours ago, Stick486 said: beats moving... That won't happen. Been married 38 yrs and with the exception of 1 year my wife has lived within one block of her childhood home. If a highway was coming thru she would be the last one fighting eminent domain.
October 5, 20187 yr On 10/4/2018 at 6:46 AM, DuckSoup said: That won't happen. Been married 38 yrs and with the exception of 1 year my wife has lived within one block of her childhood home. If a highway was coming thru she would be the last one fighting eminent domain. If I would have done that,I would still be working. The only jobs near my childhood home were handyman jobs that don't pay much, or very often. Herb Edited October 5, 20187 yr by Dadio
October 5, 20187 yr Popular Post You boys should spend some time in North Ontario. Now THERE are some REAL mosquitoes! We used to trap them and fry one up for lunch! Personally, I prefer the ones with the spiked jaws, but this is the only one I have left. John
October 5, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, HARO50 said: but this is the only one I have left. the 'skeeters fly off w/ the other ones???...
October 5, 20187 yr On 10/3/2018 at 8:14 PM, Grandpadave52 said: Don't worry your neighborhood is safe... more than you think...
October 5, 20187 yr 33 minutes ago, Stick486 said: the 'skeeters fly off w/ the other ones???... Horse flies. John
October 5, 20187 yr Popular Post Long time ago, I lived just down the road from Tallmedge....back when Quaker Oats was still in Akron....Had a place in North Hill, Akron. 4 hour drive...think I'll pass on that.....just to go to a Hardware Store? Used to kid the Boss about driving that far...just to go to a Gold Circle department store..... Edited October 5, 20187 yr by steven newman
October 6, 20187 yr Yeah, you can't even go to the Tallmadge circle to Bumpas Drug (they sold all manner of things) or the restaurants around there.
October 6, 20187 yr There was a Brown Derby up in Stow, OH....along State Road 8......then they built that Interstate through there...
October 6, 20187 yr Author Been a swarm of large mosquitoes get scared up when walking across the lawn lately. Don't think they bite though.
October 6, 20187 yr 8 hours ago, p_toad said: Tallmadge circle I believe there are 4 roads that intersect, 8 entrances to the circle, and its probably one of the smoothest circles in the state.
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