GUM UP THOSE PESKY GOPHERS' PLANS.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Odds and ends from around the Valley: Ask and you shall receive. Free advice. The best kind. After Thursday's lament on how my wife is ready to hire a hit man to get rid of the gopher turning her beloved vegetable garden into a minefield of craters, I received a shopping list of homegrown ideas from readers on how to off the cute, little rodents as humanely as possible. The most innovative ideas come from Peggy Jaeger jaeger (yā`gər), common name for several members of the family Stercorariidae, member of a family of hawklike sea birds closely related to the gull and the tern. The skua is also a member of this family. and Dorothy Wood. Peggy uses Ex-Lax to kill her gophers. Dorothy, Juicy Fruit Juicy Fruit is a flavor and brand of chewing gum made by Wrigley's. Introduced in the United States in 1893, Juicy Fruit almost immediately became one of the best-selling brands in the country, and remains so today. gum. Who needs the Yellow Pages when you have friends like this? ``The idea was given to me by a plant seed company that sends out a catalog every year,'' Jaeger said. ``After trying everything else, I finally bought a box of Ex-Lax, threw a couple down each hole, and never saw the gophers again.'' Exactly how the Ex-Lax works, I'm going to leave up to your own imagination. Wood thinks her gopher removal system - Juicy Fruit gum - works because gophers have a thing for the smell. ``You unwrap the gum and stick it down the hole, being careful to hold it with the wrapper so your smell doesn't get on the gum,'' Wood says. While she's never conducted any autopsies on the gophers she's killed with Juicy Fruit, Wood figures the gum must cause the gopher to ultimately clam up and starve to death. ``They can't chew it, so it must stick their mouths closed,'' she said. OK, I'll accept that. Other ideas included moth balls, shoving finely crushed glass down the holes (ugh), planting a castor bean castor bean, bean produced by Ricinus communis, a plant of the spurge family, widely cultivated as an ornamental. Moles die when they eat the roots. It has long been used as an ordeal poison in parts of Africa. plant (its roots are supposedly poison to gophers), or sticking a couple of those lawn pinwheel figures by the holes because the gophers can't stand the vibrations they cause when spinning in the wind. In my never-ending search to find out what it takes to make a marriage stick, I introduce you to Gertrude and Sam Moore Sam Moore (born Samuel David Moore, 12 October 1935, Miami, Florida) is an American Southern Soul singer. Overview Moore is best known for his work as Sam of the soul duo Sam & Dave, where he was the higher tenor voice, and featured as lead vocal on most of their biggest , who are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary next week with a big family party. They got married at 2. No, actually, they were in their early 20s when they tied the knot in Detroit back in 1923, which puts them in their mid-90s today - still going strong over at Margo's Manor Retirement Home in North Hollywood. What does it take to last 75 years as a couple? Long walks together, love, respect and a shoulder always there to lean on, they say. ``As far back as anyone in the family can remember, she's always helped him, and he's always helped her,'' said Shirley Moore, their daughter-in-law. Long walks, love, respect and a shoulder to lean on. Solid advice. This one's for all you frustrated chefs out there. If you think it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a someone beside your wife, husband or kids finds out what a great cook you are, stop by the Encino Farmers Market birthday bash this Sunday and pick up an entry form for the big cook-off coming up later this summer. Chef Rudy Garcia Rodolfo 'Rudy' Garcia is a Republican member of the Florida Senate, representing the 40th District since 2001. Previously he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1985 through 2000. of L.A. Mission College's culinary arts department will be putting on a cooking demonstration, and talking about the six categories budding chefs can enter - omelette or pasta dish, salad, chicken and/or fish entree, one-pot meal, seasonal fruit pie, and kid's cook. Encino Farmers Market is open from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. at 17400 Victory Blvd., Van Nuys. If you can't make it, you can obtain entry forms by mailing a self-addressed, stamped envelope to ECFM ECFM Extended Coherent Flame Model ECFM Eddy Current Flowmeter Cook-Off at the same address. The ZIP code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. is 91406. And finally, thanks to Blaine Handell and Scott Harris Several notable people have the name Scott Harris, including:
Harris figures ``Taxi'' belongs right up there near the top of any list, and he's right. How would we have ever made it through the '80s without Louie DePalma? Handell figures most of the '60s belonged to ``The Fugitive'' - Dr. Richard Kimble Dr. Richard Kimble is the fictional character featured in the television series The Fugitive, portrayed by actor David Janssen. Kimble is a pediatrician falsely convicted for the murder of his wife, Helen Kimble, but freed in a train wreck en route to execution. and the one-armed man. ``On August 29, 1967, the night the one-armed man was brought toT his knees, a new record for television series viewing was established,'' Handell said. ``In those comparatively early days of TV, virtually everybody watched Dr. Kimble walk into the sunset a free man. That record stood for 14 years until `Roots' was wonderfully brought to us.'' |
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