Thursday, July 5th, 2007
...and I gave him two beers for his thoughtfulness.
Here's the bird at issue-- a life-sized plastic owl meant to scare away the pigeons on my roof. Yes, despite installing metal spikes on most of their favorite roosting and nesting spots, the pigeons have enough roosting places available to ...
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
The end is near! It's raining pigeon eggs! What a cruel harbinger of apocolyptic events soon to unfold!
Or maybe the pigeons are trying unsuccessfully to build nests on my roof in the places I installed bird spikes last year. I suppose that's a credible ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
On the same day my push-button light switches arrived in the mail, another package was waiting for me also: pigeon spikes and adhesive shipped all the way from jolly ol' England.
I've been battling these belligerent birds for months now. I sweep away their nests; they build new ones. ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
The father of one of my childhood friends used to make a dinner called "Chicken Boing Boing." Basically it was chicken plus whatever happened to be in the fridge or on the cupboard. This post is like chicken boing boing, but without the chicken. I've got a ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
While sitting at the desk in my home office yesterday, I was started by a carpenter ant crawling up my arm. A number of readers of my last post about discovering the ants recommended that I call an exterminator, and that's exactly what I did.
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