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I had a chipmunk and that was burrowing under the brick entry to my shed. I filled the holes with pea gravel and he just cleared them out again. The one time the pea gravel stopped him he just dug another entry. I finally bought a live trap. It worked. I drove him far away and let him go. Then I...

If that made my exhaust smell like pumpkin pie I'd be all over it.

The last time I went to a Cubs game it was $2 for a bleacher seat and you could bring in your own refreshments. It's now up to $79 for what are anticipated to be the most popular games.

This reminds me of some of the really huge jigsaw puzzles that are available. The biggest I could find right now is 6'4"x4'6", but I know I've seen one that was over 12 feet long. Okay, a bit of research uncovered one that's 26.77'x6.3'. It's 48,000 pieces and cost $510 in 2018. The pieces alone...

I've never used maple. I think I might have some in a package my brother bought me. Be sure to let us know how it tastes.

Beautiful color. Looks almost like the artificial caramel color spray they use on the commercial stuff. Funny how the real thing usually doesn't look as visually pleasing as the fake. Those should have a wonderful smoky flavor. What type of smoke wood did you use?

Based on my limited experience with similar wood, whatever you do, odds are you'll have to re-do it every year. Might want to keep that in mind when you decide on oiling/sealing vs letting it weather naturally. After two go-rounds of sanding and resealing my deck furniture I decided the...

I don't doubt this is what your mail carrier told you, but it makes little sense. Why would not getting around to delivering something today make that package "undeliverable"? Just deliver it when you can. I've certainly noticed no reluctance on the part of USPS to deliver things long after...

Glad to hear you're feeling better. I had my heart shocked back into a regular rhythm once, but it was a planned operation and they gave me the Michael Jackson cocktail to put me to sleep for it. The doctor said the procedure would take just a few seconds but it was extremely painful so they put...

You can but just like with meat it will impact the texture, particularly for softer cheeses that have higher moisture content. You can probably freeze a block of Parmesan and not even notice the difference when it's thawed. I honestly don't remember what the softer cheeses were like after being...

If you want to see Ramsey get roasted pretty good, check out the "Uncle Roger" videos on YouTube. Uncle Roger is a character done by comedian Nigel Ng. He has a whole series of reaction videos to other people's cooking videos. Unlike most of the other reaction videos on YouTube, Nigel's are very...

US-34. The western terminus is not far west of Rocky Mountain National Park. It's the main road that goes through the park. The eastern terminus is in Berwyn, IL. From the intersection where the "end of" sign was I could see the Hancock building in the distance. The route used to end closer to...

I wouldn't call it the perfect way to make brisket, but I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with the approach. Brisket is a perfect cut to braise the way he has. The spice rub seemed fine, nothing wrong with the onions, beer is a classic ingredient in a beef braise. Given that this is...

When driving that US highway I mentioned above there was one stretch where it was four-lane divided with very wide shoulders and everything set way back from the road. When it went back to two-lane I realized it was like the difference between living in the environment and watching it on TV...

That's a great map collection. I found a place online that had hand-drawn perspective maps of the city I grew up in from 100+ years ago. I'm assuming they were meant as souvenirs of sorts rather than as navigation aids since they had little houses and churches drawn in the appropriate places. It...

Took the quiz but I found it kind of difficult. I've spent significant time living in four very different regions of the country. Two of them more than long enough to have impacted my speech patterns. For instance, where I grew up carbonated beverages were "pop". Then I spent most of my adult...

I would add at this point that in my experience, if you don't have a vacuum sealer, don't even bother. The smoked cheese will get moldy and nasty long before the smoke has mellowed. Vacuum packed it will last quite a long time.

There are a series of videos on YouTube from a guy who is a dialect coach for the movies. I started watching the series he did on U.S. dialects. He highlighted a number of speech pattern differences I would have never been able to pick out on my own. This guy was amazing in his ability to...

Since you have the room, could you maybe have a dog run built in the yard? He might get bored just running up and down the run but it has to be better then nothing. My brother had a dog that was generally very well behaved, and could mostly be trusted to be let out, do his business, and then...

I used to use an Aeropress to make my coffee at work each morning. I carefully measured precise amounts of coffee using a digital scale, timed the steep, then diluted the concentrate with additional hot water. I used a Thermos insulated travel coffee cup, mostly because it will hold the coffee...