But at least stinkbugs are organic and don’t cut your mouth.
But Mmmmmmm, spaghetti!
I’m imagining the sauce was made from scratch with garden fresh tomatoes.
What is it about our yard that screams “Hey, throw your trash here!!” I swear, every time I mow, I have to stop and pick up bottles or cans or other trash that are apparently flung from passing vehicles. This morning, I was out spraying poison ivy killer, and I came across a beer can in the front ditch. When I weed the garden on the hill, I have to watch for broken glass - I guess it was a game to smash bottles there.
It’s aggravating enough to have to round up branches that fall when we have particularly vigorous storms, but there’s no excuse for the slobs who can’t hold on to their cans or bottles till they get to a trash or recycling can. Assholes. Plain and simple.
I always suspect teenagers getting rid of evidence before going home to their parents.
That was what we like to call around here “a joke”. I’m including a Wikipedia link which might help you recognize one if you ever encounter another in the wild.
Ugh. I wish people would stop calling the anus a “brown eye.” And while we’re at it, can we get rid of the expression, “He’s so full of shit that his eyes are brown?” Eww.
Arrrgh. Plumbing rant ahead.
We have three indoor cats, and two bathrooms in our house. The back bathroom is referred to as the cat’s bathroom. It’s a 3/4 bath (shower stall, no tub).
My husband is in charge of scooping the litterboxes, and insists on flushing the poop (we use Feline Pine so it’s theoretically OK). [Husband is disabled and this is one of the few household tasks he can safely do.]
But on Monday, he scooped so much at one time that the toilet got clogged. And when he tried to plunge it, water started coming up from under the toilet. So we have a plumber coming out probably today to look at it.
But that’s not the real rant. I went in this morning to scoop the boxes (into a bag that gets thrown in the trash, thank you very much), and noticed that the shower stall was full of dried…muck. Muck being a euphemism for cat poop. Liquified cat poop that had apparently overflowed into the shower stall, and not been noticed all week, and had dried up. About an inch worth in some places. I have no idea how to even begin to clean that nastiness up. And I’ll have to do it, it’s beyond my husband’s capabilities. And apparently now I have to be in charge of litterboxes, because it’s not always safe for him to carry a bag of cat poop outside to the trash cans.
Cats, I love you, but some days…
Something like a drywall scraper would probably work. One of mine leaves a turd in the tub occasionally. Just one. I’m guessing a dingleberry, and I have a suspect, but I’ve yet to catch him to be sure.
Hope your plumbing is fixed. Kinda sounds like it might have been an issue for a little while.
Oh! Also, if it helps, I use a diaper pail for the cat collection bags. Works a treat, and take the bag out once a week.
You can probably get a small airtight can with a plastic liner and put the cat litter products in that for a few days, so you only have to make the trip outside once a week or so.
From the sounds of the overflow issue, it does sound like you’ve plugged the pipes pretty good, which means that you’re going to get a stern talk from your plumber about what should and shouldn’t go down the drains.
Well the packers have arrived, so the house is full of boxes, and then the dishwasher decided now was the time to leak and make some huge blisters in the ceiling in the basement . Just what I need right now. Fortunately have a decent handy man on call, and at least that is being taken car of. Really don’t want to have to buy a new dishwasher 4 days before we hand over keys.
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Seen on a message board:
Owler. For a boy’s name. Because your son to be can’t be teased enough!
Who?
I use the Litter Genie. Works fine, and no smell.
I use the Diaper Champ. Same benefits, but you can use regular kitchen garbage bags instead of specially made ones that cost more.
That is absolutely brilliant. It almost makes me wish I could have a cat again so I could get one and use it.
This is what I use, too. Holds a LOT more than the litter one.
Oh, yes, in fact it was much worse than that. We knew we would have to have the pipes replaced at some point -we redid the incoming pipes about 8 years ago, and the main sewer pipe from the house to the street about 10 years ago, but the internal outgoing plumbing is still the original from when the house was built in the early 60’s.
Well, that someday turned out to be today. :mad::smack:
On the bright side, I can now have that bathroom retiled (which I’ve been wanting to do for a while) without wondering if there are any unknown plumbing problems lurking in the pipes! 
Oh, a joke. Rather a creaky one, if you don’t mind my saying so.
I’ve used regular kitchen trash bags in the Litter Genie as well. They worked fine.
I found this out because I was out of the refill bags…
I might have to try the Diaper Champ when the Litter Genie needs to be replaced since **SeaDragonTattoo **mentioned that the DC is larger than the LG. Three cats can make a lot of poop.
So apparently a university in Toronto is going to offer an anti-vaccine course. Fuck them.