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US related but they don't have a random thread and I found this interesting, (the article is from 2018 and accurate as of 2018)

" John Tyler was the first vice president elevated to the presidency on the death of the chief executive and the first president to marry in the White House. Nearly 175 years later, two of his grandchildren are still around."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-two...e-still-alive/

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My experience in this neighbourhood where we have LOTS of street trees is that you have to be patient. :nod:

First, the City Arborist has got to come and determine that the tree really is dead, and not just need severe pruning.

Second, they seem to do removal of trees at certain times of the years ....... "Immediately' would be for a tree in imminent danger of falling and injuring someone.

Third, the city contracts one or more private companies to actually chop the trees down. They, of course, also have their own clients.

It might well be fall before they come and cut your tree down. :nod:


The stump will then be left there for a time before another crew come and dig it up.

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Wont be surprised if it goes another winter before its gone ha ha

I am just bummed it died, it was such a nice tree in summer, really kept the apartment cooler as it blocked almost all the sun.

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Sobeys does some very nice chocolate eclairs. Real cream but it's icing on the top and too much of it.

Today I tried an independent store I've never been to before. Among their very nice looking cakes were eclairs that have real chocolate on top. I was so excited I didn't think to check it was real cream.

I'll find out later.

If it's not, I'll put some Devon cream in.

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If it is any consolation, they have to replace any tree that has had to be removed.

The caveat here being that it is then up to the people living around there to keep the tree watered both while it gets established and for several years afterward.

We had a cherry tree removed from by our house about 5 years ago. The new tree came with a label tied around it asking "Please water me' :lol: . It flowered last year for the first time, but it is a different variety from the old (ca 60 years old) up and down the street. For one thing, it has white flowers and the others are all pinky-red.

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Using google street view which goes back to 2009, this tree was a small sapling in 2009, so probably planted around that time, so 10 years ago. The July 2018 and October 2018 google street view the tree was still living, although October it was losing its leaves.

Looking at the 2009 photos it was surrounded by more grass and dirt the entire length of the street. This building construction started in 2013 and by the next google street photo in 2016 when the building was completed, the side walk has been widened considerably eating up most of the grassy space and dirt. The tree currently sits in a square of dirt about 4 feet L x 2 feet W.

So was here for at least 10 years and grew considerably in those 10 years.

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And from the other side of the world....

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...4eb39fe4a3.jpg

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I'm stumped by that picture.

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I hate when I get a prescription that isn't covered by pharmacare.

For one of the prescriptions the filling fee is almost the cost of the drug itself. $10 filling fee for a $13.83 medication.

$20 in filling fees and $40 of medications, $60 in total.

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Pretty cool video, taken at Jack Wattley discus. They have been breeding discus fish for a long time, although Jack died last fall at 96.

Must be an interesting job these fish breeders. Corey who made the video owns a fish store in WA state, people will drive from BC to his store for fish. Discus have always been my dream fish, ever since I was young.

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I have one medication that costs $3.80 for a 3 month supply. Dispensing fee #10

Total cost to me $13.80

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I've just bought a tee shirt that needs ironing. That can't be right?

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Was there a flat fee?

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I have a couple that say the same. I however never iron them, they always look fine out of the dryer to me.

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We iron very little .............we don't have a dryer, never have had one since we bought the house. Instead we have drying lines strung up in the laundry area in the basement and everything is hung to dry. shirts and blouses are put onto hangers, given a good shake and then hung.

Everything turns out fine.

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Had to order a small replacement part for an item we have from the US as I couldn't find anywhere in Canada that sells it. Ordered from a place in Miami and shipping it to Pt. Roberts, Washington so I can get it quicker. Amazing how fast the USPS is, item picked up Saturday at 2pm and is scheduled for delivery in Pt. Roberts on Monday and only $3.95 in shipping charges.



If we had a house, I would certainly use the dryer less often, but in a condo its really the only feasible way to dry clothes.

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This has happened before at airlines and boils down to people not doing their job to ensure the plane is empty before closing, however not sure how people sleep through all this.

Everywhere I have worked, the flight attendants are to do a sweep through the aircraft back to front, then before we as ground crew closed the plane assuming it wasn't being groomed first, also did a sweep back to front to ensure nobody was on-board before closing and sealing the doors.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/73493..._medium=social

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Nightmare stuff!

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There once was a Scot named McAmeter
With a tool of prodigious diameter.
It was not the size
That caused such surprise;
'Twas his rhythm -- iambic pentameter.

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Could be worse. The plane may have left for somewhere else. :ohmy:

Who are you? You weren't sitting next to me when I nodded off. And what's that desert/canyon/sea doing down there?

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No, that wouldn't be worse at least not for me! Being of a somewhat hysterical mindset when it comes to Things Going Wrong With Planes, I'd have probably woken up and thought the plane had crashed and I was trapped at the bottom of the ocean. In the dark. All alone. *shudder*

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I'm up quite late tonight, have been doing some cooking. I've just sat down for a cuppa before bed, and a mouse has appeared out of nowhere and is now hiding behind the sideboard :scaredhair:

I have to walk past the sideboard to get to the bedroom, so it looks like I'll be sleeping in this chair tonight.

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Go easy with the mushrooms... :nod:

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And a mouse for company. :eek:

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A comment on reddit about high rent costs in Winnipeg amused me, someone posted how a decent apartment would run $1,200 a month, then another posted saying their rent is insane for their 3bed 2 bath house at $1,800 a month, these folks have obviously never lived in Vancouver....lol

Last I looked both Winnipeg and Edmonton had higher or close to same median income as Vancouver does.

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Easyjet or another 'no allocated seat, sit where you want' plane?

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I had a similar a few years back, boarded, sat in my allotted seat, on a scheduled flight with a reputable airline.

Man (large) approaches and says "I think you're in my seat", I quadruple checked my boarding pass and replied "I think not, baby puppy" showing my boarding pass.

Your man looks at my boarding pass and says "Fine, 'cept that this plane goes to Zurich, not Geneva". :eek:

Two flights departing 5 minutes apart, (both running late) adjoining departure gates, I ended up boarding the wrong one... :o

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Heard some yelling outside someone was standing in front a bus and wouldn't let the bus go, went on long enough for 5 other buses to get backed up and not able to move. They are trolley buses and cannot pass one another so if one gets delayed, they tend to bunch up so now there are 5 buses on the same route following each other in a group. (pass in the sense a non-trolley bus can, a trolley bus can pass another, but requires the bus to be disconnected from the wires, pass, then connected back to the wires, so in actual practice day to day operations they don't pass one another.)

Crazy neighborhood, never know whats gonna happen day to day.

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I find this lack of compassion for my mouse phobia quite disturbing :frown:

After throwing magazines at the spot where I last saw the bloody thing, with no result, I finally worked up the courage to dash to the bedroom. Just in case Scouse was awake :angel_smile: I lay there muttering about a moose being loose in the hoose. Which woke him up :angel_smile:

He got up, as I knew he would. I lay in bed laughing for the next five minutes, couldn't help it because every light in the place was switched on and there was much banging, thumping and crashing. I thought he'd found the mouse and was chasing it, but when he came back to bed he said he was just moving furniture looking for it :lol:

He fixed the problem today, there is a small gap either side of our garage door where they can get in, and some sort of automatic locking strip at the bottom on the internal door from garage to house wasn't engaging. No more gaps, no more mice, hopefully.

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I have a mouse in the house, and have set out a couple of traps.

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I tried one of those sticky mouse traps and the little bastard got away. In the end I bought a good old fashioned snap trap and that snapped his neck good and proper.

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Sorry spouse of scouse, wasn't aware that it was a phobia, my bad.

We use cage traps, have found them to be quite effective. Probably wouldn't need them at all if the cats would simply shape up and not bring the bloody things indoors anyway. Anyone who suggests that cats keep rodents out is prime material to become the next UK PM. I lost two (count them, two) packets of cheese and onion crisps last week. :(

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Unless it was preggers :(

Did you know mice can get through a gap as small as 1/4 inch.. so get the sealing gun out! A house I lived in a few years ago was riddled with the things.. despite snap traps, cage traps... and even poison / sticky traps (which I hate - why make them suffer...) the little sods wouldn't be got rid of.. the sad thing was some were obviously escaped domesticated mice as they were multi coloured, not a wild mouse colour.

I like mice, but not what they drop or the diseases they carry :(

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I already lived at Number 10. The only time there were mice at my parents' house was between cats. Perhaps the mice saw one 'leave' and visited before the next one arrived. :lol:
Are you saying a mouse took them? Or you used them for bait?
Peanut butter works.

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Not for bait - they were Walkers after all, somehow :confused: said mouse gained entry to the crisp drawer, I found a packet suspiciously gnawed. Cleaned it all, left it a couple of days, restocked, same again. OH placed the trap, caught the blighter, his case comes up next month...

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Does he need a lawyer? I recommend dismissal on the grounds of entrapment.

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We had an infestation a few years ago and one popped its head out of the toaster on the kitchen counter. :(:( We sealed off the places there were getting in and trapped 3 or 4 that were still in the house. They were in the area above the ceiling tiles in the basement and were going through the house through ducts etc. After we got rid of them (3 years now and no mouse dropping etc or clues they are back), the neighbours seemed to get them. They got into their rice in the basement.

Our food loss was granola bars and cookies in the basement.