Took a second to remember that! Lol!!

Probably yes. And I guess finding out early that your contractor cut corners is better than later

Still turn off the house water if you go out of town in the winter though

It's crazy so far I've only run AC in my apartment at night when i sleep. It stays around 70 normally which is nice. Other than that I run infrared space heater for a few mins. Like night and day difference of my last place that never got warm no matter what I did.

No power issue in museum district so far that I have seen

Getting a friend to check your pipes would be a good idea though

Oh God squirrels are horribly destructive. I hate the f****** so much. They love to chew on things ideally the most expensive thing especially electrical wiring or Plumbing

They are like big furry termites

No I haven't but I do get Bill emails.

A although for all I know they went to spam

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.

Right now I'm patiently waiting for the figgy pudding to finish boiling so I can shower and go to bed. It's been a rough 2 days- lost power for a chunk of yesterday, pipes froze overnight, two relatives decided to skip Christmas because of the weather and hubby was in a minor car accident this afternoon. We gave up and decided to spend the night at my parents' house. But the presents are wrapped, the pudding is almost done and tomorrow will be a good day (it better be!)

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Me either. I haven’t gotten any emails from them since my “your bill is ready” earlier in the week.

OP, or anyone else knowledgeable: have one upstairs sink and toilet next to it with no flow. Other sink in same br all good. Everything else fine so far. Assume local freeze? When is this gonna burst? Tried running hot water and warming br with no change already. FML

Will you hide the dead man’s ghost?

I just built my first power wheel yesterday, I feel this energy!

I have no idea how to do that unfortunately

Yep, that's exactly what they did with mine. Nothing would deter them so I decided to cull them. I have a personal guideline that I will use as much as I can from anything I kill so we began eating them. My wife was making leather from the skins as well but she stopped because there's just not that much we can do with it.

Blythe was ok with fitting, but got real rude when I didn’t want beige-apparently there was no black, colors or patterns in the large sizes. Soma was helpful as was Nordstrom but that’s not a thing anymore.

That is such a great show! I'm really glad Netflix renewed it for a second season. I hope the show made you feel a bit better!

Now that you mention it they do that to my tomatoes too. They just come take one bite then leave them.

Effective management vs ineffective management

My primary issue with them is that they eat most of the produce out of our garden (especially tomatoes; the second there's any red on them at all, they take them). They will also nest in the house if they can make a way in, though that has only happened once (to my knowledge) so far.

In moderation squirrels aren't bad at all. I am quite fond of them, actually. Around my house, though, their population was outrageous. To put it into perspective, I have taken around 50 just out of my yard over the last 2 years and there are still at least a dozen just directly around my house, without needing to even go into the woods or the other yards in the neighborhood. I am fine with this population, though, as they are no longer a nuisance so I only cull to keep the population in check anymore.

Edit: Sorry, forgot to answer your other questions. Yeah, I use a pellet gun to take them. They make a surprisingly gelatinous stock but I havent tasted it, honestly. I would expect it to be similar to chicken stock, though, judging by the smell and color. Turns to jello when you refrigerate it.

Ha! Try biking Park, it’s terrible. Grove gets paid in near west end and fan roads get largely ignored

For their squirrel stew. The main ingredient in squirrel stew is the squirrel

I'm down in central NC and surprised at how disruptive this cold weather has been. The utility was doing rolling blackouts this morning due to high demand and we had at least 2 households in the family without electricity for many hours.

I'm a little concerned about our house in Richmond. Mostly the water pipes but also if the power has gone out my poor cat would be so cold.

We’re standing here, watching the fireworks someone is shooting off from our window. At the same time, the “Neighbors” app is blowing up: Is iT gUnShOtS?!??

Unless you know, water runs into various other things besides a faucet.