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Post by sunsetpainter on Dec 4, 2018 19:03:12 GMT
val2525 I do not know what I did, but I posted something here, then went to edit it, and now all my other posts poofed. No clue what I did wrong.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 4, 2018 19:16:44 GMT
Go to your profile and click on recent posts. It may be that you posted it on a different board.
If you're referring to your PO closed thread, I merged it into the one we already had going. We've had 4 threads started on that, I've been merging them into one thread.
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Post by kritter on Dec 4, 2018 19:26:27 GMT
val2525 I think Sunset may be talking about posts like 538, 533, 534, 540, 541, and 549 on this thread. I see posts that were Liked but there is nothing that I can see in those posts among others from Sunset. Maybe there is something within those posts but I just see blank space.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 4, 2018 19:35:37 GMT
It looks like there is an issue with the picture host. sunsetpainter, who do you use to host your pictures? Is their website down? |
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Post by sunsetpainter on Dec 4, 2018 20:15:51 GMT
It looks like there is an issue with the picture host. sunsetpainter , who do you use to host your pictures? Is their website down? Val, I usually post pics I find on Pinterest or Facebook. I click on the "View Image Info", then copy and paste it into the picture frame button thingy above. No clue what happened. Gremlins, I guess. |
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Post by sunsetpainter on Dec 4, 2018 20:17:38 GMT
val2525 I think Sunset may be talking about posts like 538, 533, 534, 540, 541, and 549 on this thread. I see posts that were Liked but there is nothing that I can see in those posts among others from Sunset. Maybe there is something within those posts but I just see blank space. Yep...this is what I was talking about. I made a post, then went in to edit, and when I went to continue it was just gone! along with the other ones. Some of the older ones are still there. I'm sorry if I goofed.  |
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Post by val2525 on Dec 4, 2018 21:15:08 GMT
It looks like there is an issue with the picture host. sunsetpainter , who do you use to host your pictures? Is their website down? Val, I usually post pics I find on Pinterest or Facebook. I click on the "View Image Info", then copy and paste it into the picture frame button thingy above. No clue what happened. Gremlins, I guess. The original pictures may have been removed. Open an imgur account and upload the pics to that, then post here. That way you aren't at the mercy of the original picture host. |
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Post by sunsetpainter on Dec 4, 2018 23:20:09 GMT
Ok Thanks Val!
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Post by kritter on Dec 4, 2018 23:29:28 GMT
Definitely do that because I would miss your pics on the Critter threads. |
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Post by sunsetpainter on Dec 12, 2018 18:11:36 GMT
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Post by sunsetpainter on Dec 18, 2018 18:20:29 GMT
My dumb dog really likes the jalapeño ones!
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Post by val2525 on Dec 29, 2018 6:36:56 GMT
Shirley actually found this one. I just stole it from her  |
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Post by titus730 on Dec 29, 2018 19:38:21 GMT
Damn, I want to know what they were shipped in. Wouldn't they need to be alive? Inquiring minds are very curious.
I'm going to have to read that thread.
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Post by titus730 on Dec 29, 2018 19:45:14 GMT
OMG, shouldn't have read it. Crickets every where. For those of you without Twitter, the rest of the tale.
They were in a cardboard box. And I cut the tape and opened the box and SURPRISE! Crickets everywhere. It was the middle of the workday and I didn't have time to deal with cricket logistics, so I put the tape back on the box.
And then I put the box in the upstairs bathroom, the only semi-contained place in the house where I knew the kids and the cats and the dogs wouldn't be able to get at the box and tear it open and unleash 250 hungry crickets into our warm, semi-humid environment.
About 20 minutes later I'm back at work on my computer, and I hear my wife in the kitchen: "where are these goddamn crickets coming from." I freely admit I had not kept her fully up-to-date on my cricket purchasing plans.
And at first I was like "okay, maybe one or two got out when I initially opened the box. No biggie." I kept working.
With the benefit of hindsight, this was a mistake.
I'm trying to wrap up a story but I keep hearing cricket-related exclamations coming from the kitchen. Eventually I get up to investigate. I say, "So uh the crickets got here toda--"
"I REALIZE THAT," she says. "WHY ARE THEY ALL OVER THE KITCHEN"
I say "That's a good question. Let me check something." I walk over to the bathroom. I open the door. There are crickets. Everywhere.
Crickets on the floor. Crickets on the walls. Crickets in the sink. Crickets in the toilet.
For some reason my first instinct is to flush the toilet, as if that will do anything to solve the problem of crickets in all the other places that were not the toilet. I shut the door. "Uh, don't come in here!" I try to sound cheerful.
Apparently I had not sealed the box shut as well as I should have. I ended up rushing out to the shed, in the 18" of snow and below zero temperatures, to pick up a spare aquarium we had. I spent about 45 minutes collecting crickets from the bathroom.
Of course by this point many had migrated elsewhere. They were in the closet. In the shoes. Making their way downstairs to the playroom. The cats were having what I can only imagine was the greatest day of their lives.
I tried to collect all of them. It was like the world's shittiest game of Pokemon. But here we are, roughly 10 hours after the initial catastrophe, and stray crickets are still turning up in odd places.
I make this information public because if I do not send any tweets tomorrow, it is because my wife murdered me after finding a cricket in our bed in the middle of the night.
And that's the news from Red Lake Falls.
End of conversation
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Post by sunsetpainter on Dec 29, 2018 20:26:49 GMT
ROFLMAO!!!
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Post by jandsknight on Dec 29, 2018 23:01:57 GMT
The cricket story reminded me of one of our Christmas trees. It was the early '70's. We lived in Conroe Texas surrounded by pine forests and oil fields. In the established oil fields (pumps, but no active drilling) there was forest regrowth; lots of young pine trees but not very dense. Unlike the National Forest lands, you could cut down trees on the oil field lands.
We had gone out on an unusually cool Saturday morning 2-3 weeks before Christmas with our 2 elementary school aged boys and cut down our tree. When we got home the boys went out to play with the neighbor kids, DH set up the tree in the den ready to be decorated that evening. He went out in the garage working on something and I was working in the kitchen. Soon the quiet was broken by some strange plopping noises in the den. I went in to check and saw large grasshoppers jumping from the tree onto the tile floor. They had been immobile from the cold and were now warming up. I ran outside to get my husband and sons. He took the tree out to the garage and knocked off grasshoppers while the boys and I scurried around grabbing and putting them in jars.
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Post by sunsetpainter on Jan 1, 2019 18:04:58 GMT
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Post by val2525 on Jan 4, 2019 1:36:22 GMT
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Post by titus730 on Jan 7, 2019 17:29:25 GMT
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Post by sunsetpainter on Jan 17, 2019 2:26:47 GMT
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Post by titus730 on Jan 17, 2019 19:33:03 GMT
That little butt and tail are going a mile a minute. 
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Post by val2525 on Jan 20, 2019 2:46:54 GMT
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Post by Tabby on Feb 26, 2019 17:12:24 GMT
I caught my back neighbor out sunbathing in the nude this morning....  This has become pretty much a daily occurrence here; we've seen as many as three at once. Luckily, they're very, very skittish - it's really hard to get away with sneaking out into the yard to snap a pic.  |
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Post by kritter on Feb 26, 2019 17:15:44 GMT
Yikes, Tabby! Good pic.
Are they still leaving my ducks alone?
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Post by Tabby on Feb 26, 2019 17:19:32 GMT
They completely ignore all birds. I think they're fish-itarians....  |
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Post by Tabby on Apr 13, 2019 16:27:32 GMT
OK, I have an exciting new pet out back -- not an alligator this time ---   Yep, we have our very own BOBCAT creeping around!  |
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Post by kritter on Apr 13, 2019 16:36:32 GMT
My ducks aren't going to have a chance between the bobcat and the alligators.
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Post by Tabby on Apr 13, 2019 16:39:11 GMT
Ducks, schmucks.....we have a freakin' BOBCAT!!! |
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Post by val2525 on Apr 13, 2019 20:04:04 GMT
Tabby, does your yard back up to conservation land?
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Post by kritter on Apr 13, 2019 20:20:30 GMT
How the heck did he get there? The whole place is surrounded by houses.
Maybe you should point out to him that it is a gated community.
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