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Thanks for the warm welcome...yikes, SS is MORE addictive than BYC? The thing is, I bet I'll forget which place I read something and it'll all morph into The Easy Backyard Self...:P Oh yeah, we are definitely the country bumpkins of the extended family...and loving it!:woot

:gig It all Depends! :gig I guess the closest thing to Champ we've seen so far is an ominous 5" long bloodsucker (leech) in a pond, which made me glad I was not swimming there! :ep

OK, all you Vermonters! We have a tantalizing question here about Champ? Real or imagined? Personally, it intrigues me greatly, tho I've never seen it (her? him? them???). Lake Champlain is so deep, so cold in the depths, and relatively undisturbed, I think it's possible. There have been so...

Yeah, blush, blush...I always feel like a doofus when a repairman has to go into our basement and see "the bucket brigade"! :P Funny, how they never bring it up...:D The great part is we won't run out of beans in the next 780 years! :th

What did I do? What I've been meaning to do all summer: scrape, prime and paint lots of scuzzy outdoor trim on garage and porch lattice (ick); also, rinse 4 bu of apples (drops, of course) in dilute bleach/water and dry...and keep in touch with family about my elderly aunt's passing the day...

Oh, I tried...really tried...to be self sufficient enough to not need this site, but I just couldn't do it...:rolleyes:

Hi Ticks and everybody! I finally wandered over here from BYC...it was inescapable destiny! :D (and I'm glad I did)...I'm from central Vermont, below Rutland, nestled between two mountain ranges and 30 kinds of weather, most involving precipitation...

Great finds...you deserve to bask in the gloat mode...it's one of life's greatest pleasures to get something useful for next-to-nothing! :ya

We used to get them at Chinese restaurants, originally used for duck sauce. (due to language difficulties when I went in there asking for duck sauce buckets, they kept handing me those little take-out packets of duck sauce! It got to be a full-fledged game of charades. :rolleyes: ) BTW, at the...

Wow, this is too cool! Yesterday I was actually thinking that our family is so frugal that if there were a way to reuse toilet paper tubes, we'd do it...:D not knowing there ARE ways to reuse them, as you've shown! What timing!

OK, I could no longer resist the force pulling me onto this site...:caf It's like trying to win the fight against gravity!