The Ants Go Marching 2x2

So last week I discovered we had an ant problem.  I didn't want to spend money on poisons, and I wanted a solution right then. So after doing some research on Pinterest,  I found out that if you mixed together icing sugar and baking soda, they can't tell the difference between the two and when they eat the baking soda it reacts with their digestive system and makes them explode.
So I mixed up a couple lids of it and waited a day for the ants to take the bait. Well that never happened.  The ants didn't touch it at all. So after some more research,  I discovered they didn't like vinegar. So I went out to the dollar store, bought a spray bottle, then proceeded to fill it with vinegar when I got home.

The ants didn't know what hit 'em. There was mass genocide in my kitchen.

Though I did find that if you sprinkle the ants with baking soda first and then spray them with the vinegar, it is a much more efficient way to kill them.

So hopefully you find this post informative and helpful if you were need to get rid of ants without resorting to poisons.

Ta ta for now

It Is Happening Again…

Oh the joys of being renters.
So earlier this past week, I got home from a shift at work and I notice a sign in the front yard. I ask Justin about it, and low-and-behold it is a For Sale sign. Yay our landlords are putting their house for sale. At least they are going to try to sell the house with us in it. Except that we are going to try and find a new place before that. I have a list of suites to look at, now I just have to call them and set up appointments. If we’re lucky, we can be moving next weekend.
Although the part that really sucks is that we just started organizing our spare room. We have been here a year and only last week did I set up my desk in the spare room. So much for that. Hopefully our next place is bigger. Then we could actually have people over.
Anyways, just wanted to put a little update. I have to get back to cooking dinner before going to class. Ta Ta For Now

This is a rant

Okay. Take two of trying to write this post as the first one deletd itself.
This is going to be a rant post. And due to the above first sentence happening, I have foung another reason as to why I don't like posting from my phone. The first being that I can't edit posts as much as on the computer.
Anyways, so today already sucks and that is not good thing considering it is only 8:45am. Two things are pissing me off today. The first being our landlord being a freaking idiot. The second is work related.

So we will start with the landlord first.  The guy is so stupid. Since we have moved in, we have dealt with nothing but shit. It is getting extremely frustrating. He complains to us about his heating bill. Our two baseboard heaters are turned up full power and it is still freezing in our suite. I dont think he understands how cold it is in the basement. It sucks having to constantly be under a blanket. And because it has been so cold lately,  even though we wrapped the pipes to our laundry room in insulation, the pipes are still frozen. I now have to take laundry to my parents house. Its extremely frustrating.  The washer is on the verge of dying. The dryer doesn't always dry. There have been multiple times that I would of had to put the laundey in the dryer for a second time but haven't because it was too late to be running the machine as the clothes would then be really cold in the morning. 

Now onto the work rant. I cannot stand being at the tool store anymore. You get treated like crap unless you're related to the manager. Manager is addicted to methedone. Two of the other females that work here pretend to be nice to you then talk abour yoy behind your back.  I have had enough. I cannot wait until I can find a different job so I can leave this job. I could continue going but I don't have the energy to bitch right now.

Next post will be more cheerful.

Here We Go Again

Hello People Who Read My Blog,

I have to apologize for the lack of posting lately. I have been meaning to get on, but life has been a bit hectic lately.

We had to move with only two weeks notice. We were able to find a place within one week and are now trying to get settled down there. Our landlord at the old place, his father passed away a couple weeks ago and his mom will be moving into the suite. Legally we would have two months notice, but he only gave us two weeks. After a few heated emails, we have everything all worked out. He owes us for one months rent plus damage deposit. He has also offered to give us $200 for moving expenses, but we'll see if we actually get that money or not. Mom and I are doing a final clean of that suite on Saturday and then have the final inspection on Sunday. I might email him and see if we can do the inspection on Saturday after we finish cleaning, as mom and I have planned to go to the States on Sunday.

So along with moving, we have also been trying to buy a new vehicle. I was going to trade the Xterra in for a Jeep Rubicon,

This is what the Rubicon we had picked out looks like. Commando Green.
Four door. Came with hard top and soft top.
Loved it so much.

but the finance companies think that I have too much debt against me so they wouldn't allow me to get one. And then Justin was trying to get a motorcycle so that he would have his own means of transportation instead of always sharing the X, but he doesn't have a good enough credit rating. So we will have to continue sharing the truck for now. He is going to be taking the truck this weekend up past Boston Bar for Josh' birthday. Which is why I'm going with mom to the States on Sunday. But that also means that I get the truck next weekend to go out to Burnaby for girls night. Yay girls night!!

As for right now, I am sitting upstairs at work. I don't start work for another 20 minutes, which is why I decided to quickly get a post up. I had already gone for a walk for about an hour, and now I'm just listening to Brad Paisley's new CD, Wheelhouse, on my cell phone. I am a country girl at heart. Always have been. This is a freakin' awesome CD!

Anyways I think that is all for now. Tonight and this weekend, I'm going to attempt to get the second room at our suite organized and hopefully get my desk and computer set up so that I can start using my computer again. I miss using my computer. I like my LiveWriter program for creating my posts much better than doing it on the Blogger site itself. Sorry Blogger, but it is the truth. Tata for now! 

Archery And Fishies

So this past weekend there was an archery shoot out at Semihamoo. It was just a fun 3D shoot. I had not realized that it was happening until I had gotten home from work on Saturday and Justin mentioned that Josh was going to take his nephew, Adam, to the shoot on Sunday and wanted to know if we wanted to go too. He also wanted to go fishing on Sunday so we figured that we would go early in the morning to do one round of the course (usually takes about hour and a half to two hours to complete depending if it ends up bottle-necking or not) and then go up to Stave Lake to try and find this creek that has some monster trout in it.
We had planned on being there about 8:30am, so that we could have breakfast there (the ladies always make the best food) and then get some shots in at the backstops as we haven’t shot in just over a month. Josh and Adam were going to meet us not long after 9:30 as that was when Josh was picking Adam up from his house. So we end up getting there at about 9. Have some breakfast and end up talking to Dick, whom we always shoot with at the range that we belong to. After a bit of conversation, we headed out to the backstops to warm up. My 20 and 30 yard pins are set up nicely. My 40 and 50 yard pins leave something to the imagination. We really need to get back into our rhythm of going to the range so that I can set those pins up properly. And start heading to the Thursday night shoots so that I can start figuring out my yardage again. Needless to say my shooting that day was not my greatest. I haven’t even tallied up the score cards yet. There was too many zeros for my liking.
One of the best shots of the day, Justin ended up making. We were at a wolf target and everyone had already taken there shots, and Josh told Justin to shoot the wolf in the eye. This was the resulting shot:

He got the wolf almost dead center in the forehead.
I was bored while we were waiting for the teams ahead of us to go, so I started having some fun with my phones camera and shadows. I like the second picture the best. It is currently the wallpaper on my phone, plus is my profile picture on Facebook.
 
After the shoot, we headed up to Canadian Tire so I could buy Justin a new fishing rod (I broke his a few weeks back when I fell trying to get out of a lake. I was more concerned for the rod than the fact that I almost smashed my head on a log). I got him a pretty blue one with flames on it (which I will be using until I get my own rod). We then headed up to Stave Lake to find this creek. We never did find the creek. So since we couldn't go fishing, we decided to buy some fish instead.

The pond in the backyard is in need of a good cleaning.
This is our pond. There are about 10 koi's currently in the pond. They don’t do a good job at keeping it clean. So we decided that it could use some plecostomus. So we bought two pleco’s.




 


                   This is them still in the bag before we added some of  the pond water to the bag to help balance out the pH levels.









Justin had the honours of pouring the pleco’s into the pond.

  One of them instantly swam towards the rocks deeper down, whereas the other one stayed up near the top. Here is his picture. He is really hard to see, but there is a pleco in the picture. He is the darker smudge that is in a kind of ‘u’ shape in the middle of the photo.

We haven’t seen the pleco’s since we put them in the pond. However the rocks are getting cleaner, so they are currently still alive. It is still rather warm out here so they can stay in the pond for the time being. Once it becomes colder though, the lady at PetSmart told us that they should come inside the house so that they don’t die over winter. The only problem I see with that is that we can’t currently find them. Hopefully when it comes time to bring them out, they are a bit bigger so that we can actually see them to catch them.

Good news readers! I have bought a camera charger. It is currently waiting at my PO box in the states. So I will be getting that on Monday and I will be able to get actual good photos of the following weekend as Justin and I are going camping for 5 days with his parents. Should be fun times!!
Ta ta for now!!

It’s Been Awhile

Oh My Gosh! I am alive! No I have not fallen off the face of the Earth. Although at times it does feel that way.

Things have been insane here lately. I’ve been working like there is no tomorrow, along with trying to find a new job as the one I currently have does not pay me nearly enough. So with not enough money, things have been a bit stressful at home between Justin and I. This is not a good thing at all. Although through the stress we have also been going on a few little trips here and there.

We have bought a kayak. And we both have our fishing licenses so we have been fishing some of the local lakes lately. I have only caught one fish so far, although everyone says that it does not count as I was not able to bring it out of the water. I was just able to get it to shore, and then the stupid thing spat out the hook. It wasn’t a very big fish. Only about 6” long. Either way, it was my first fish that I have ever caught.

Along with fishing we have still been going 4x4ing. There has been some new trails that we have tried out. Unfortunately, I was not able to take many pictures as my camera battery is dead and I cannot find my charger for it anywhere. I know that it is in the house somewhere because I have charged my battery once before. But can I find it now? Nope. So I have been camera-less for about a month now. Hopefully I can find it soon, otherwise I’ll have to find one in a store. I really don’t want to buy a new charger, but I can’t live without my camera for much longer.

The internet down here, has been very finicky lately. It took about 20 minutes for me to connect. I have figured out that swearing loudly at it, makes it work. Sometimes…

This is just a quick little update. I hopefully will have some time to make a real post sometime soon. Complete with pictures.

Until next time

Just A Little Quickie

Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to do a short little post before heading to bed to let everyone know that I’m alive. Things have been really busy around here lately. We have been in our new place for almost a month now. We have been really busy with archery events almost every weekend, placing quite well. At last weekends event, I came home with 2nd place and Justin got 1st, in our respective categories. This weekend we are taking a break from archery to do a CORE course to get our hunting licenses and then next weekend it is another archery shoot including a campout.

Lots of busy-ness for us. So much that we haven’t even finished unpacking yet. Anyways, I am off to bed as I have an early day of work. I shall do a better posting later once I have more time, plus pictures.

Tata for now!

It's Official!

I completely apologize for the recent hiatus. There has been a lot going on lately. I ended up giving a proposal to Justin. No, not that kind of proposal. I wish though.

The proposal that I gave him, was that we are to be out of my parents basement by the end of the month. With being out of the basement, we then get our membership to the Ridgedale Rod and Gun Club, our passports and our month rec center passes. Well, we are officially moving on March 29. We found the perfect basement suite for us. The place is huge, it has a bar, our own laundry and a fireplace. I will have to post pictures once I get my computer set up and all the moving boxes are dealt with.

So today, my job is to start packing. I'm going to be having two boxes going at once. One box is what I am packing, and the other will be labeled "Craigslist" and anything that I don't want anymore (DVD's, books, clothes, etc) will be going into that box. Once we move, I will post everything that is in that box on Craigslist (most likely as a giant ad) or on Ebay depending on the item. It's funny, because among the normal boxes of "kitchen", "living room", etc there will also be one box, labeled with Fragile but will also be labeled NASCAR.  Gotta love being a NASCAR fan. I'm going to take the shelves that I have all my items on currently with me. They technically are my brothers shelves, but he hasn't used them in years. So I don't think he will really mind.

I am really excited to be moving. The stress that I am under currently at home is getting to be unbearable, so moving is going to defiantly be the best thing we can do. It will be nice to have our own place. Can do whatever we want. Don't have to worry about letting mom know that we won't be home for dinner. I'm also kind of nervous too. As this is a big step for Justin and I. Yes we were originally going to move into our own place just under a year into our relationship. And we have been living together for two years now. It is going to be different. I just hope that nothing changes between us, unless it's for better, once we do move out. I don't see that happening, but it is always a possibility.

One thing that is going to be interesting, is that I don't really have any place to do my pen turning. So what we are going to have to do, is find me a rolling cart that I can put my lathe on that way I can just roll it out the door onto our porch. That way I still have a place to do turning and I won't have to leave my lathe, band saw and drill press at my parents place. How I will get everything all organized, I'm not quite sure yet. I haven't really thought about that yet. My pen turning isn't high on my moving list. Getting everything else organized first is my main concern.

Anyways, I really should go organize my boxes into sizes. Have to love working at a tool store, picked up about 30 boxes this morning. All my boxes have tools on them. I have Makita, Milwaukee and Hitachi boxes. It's awesome. Until next time blog-stalkers!!