- May 23, 2015
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- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Caught the neighborhood mouser having a cool drink from my pool....apparently he likes the salty/borate-y taste of my water....
señor gato gordo !
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What a pretty kitty! Does he leave you gifts?
What does YOUR kitty think when she sees him??
My cats are so used to "sharing" with new kids they don't even blink anymore when there is another new one 
I guess that is a good thing when we take in all of the oldsters from the shelter.
Kim
What does YOUR kitty think when she sees him??
My cats are so used to "sharing" with new kids they don't even blink anymore when there is another new one I guess that is a good thing when we take in all of the oldsters from the shelter.Kim
- May 23, 2015
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- Chlorine
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- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
What a pretty kitty! Does he leave you gifts?
What does YOUR kitty think when she sees him??
Kim
He leaves little bombs around but nothing in or near the pool. My cat was sleeping at the time but when they have seen each other, it's hilarious as my cat goes into psycho-evil kitty mode and launches herself into every window around trying to get out. It's quite funny to watch. I would not want them to come into actual contact though - I once had to separate two fighting cats and you can easily lose a body part if you're not at least on the other end of a 5ft broom pole. I had no garden hose at the time, so it was quite scary.
If it were a ground squirrel, you'd seen it all in monochrome green with before and after kill shots. I go all special forces sniper mode on those evil little buggers
You need to get the new Barrett .50 caliber with thermal imaging scope. Sure, some people think that it's too much, but we know that there's no such thing as too much firepower.
- May 23, 2015
- 24,474
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- 16000
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- Plaster
- Chlorine
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- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
My neighbor "wiggles sticks" for the Air National Guard & Border Patrol, I bet he could get me one of those....
PayPal or Apple Pay directly into my personal off-shore account works well....
Don't be fooled... That isn't some harmless cat but an animal drone sent by the HOA to investigate the dilapidated state of your Palm trees
- May 23, 2015
- 24,474
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- 16000
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- Chlorine
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- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Yep, HOA drone cat. Makes total sense.
Those palm trees are the bane of my pool existence. I should have shot the landscaper for putting them in - it’s just too cold here in Tucson for Queen palms. Every winter they get whacked by the few sub-freezing nights we have and then they struggle all spring and summer to come back only to get beat down again by another cold snap. They are water intensive plants and the clay soil here is totally wrong for them. There is a chainsaw in their future and it’s onky a matter of when ....
As for the dying fronds, I only prune fronds when they are totally brown from the leaves to the stem. Palms are grasses and so you don’t want to remove fronds that are still partially green or yellow because the tree itself will re-absorb water and nutrients from a dying frond. “Hurricane cuts” (very popular thing to do in FL) are very detrimental to the health of a palm tree and typically results in smaller trunk diameters making the tree weaker and more susceptible to wind damage, not less....
Those palm trees are the bane of my pool existence. I should have shot the landscaper for putting them in - it’s just too cold here in Tucson for Queen palms. Every winter they get whacked by the few sub-freezing nights we have and then they struggle all spring and summer to come back only to get beat down again by another cold snap. They are water intensive plants and the clay soil here is totally wrong for them. There is a chainsaw in their future and it’s onky a matter of when ....
As for the dying fronds, I only prune fronds when they are totally brown from the leaves to the stem. Palms are grasses and so you don’t want to remove fronds that are still partially green or yellow because the tree itself will re-absorb water and nutrients from a dying frond. “Hurricane cuts” (very popular thing to do in FL) are very detrimental to the health of a palm tree and typically results in smaller trunk diameters making the tree weaker and more susceptible to wind damage, not less....
tucsontico
LifeTime Supporter
+1 for Queen palms not growing well in Tucson and letting palm fronds hang until dry! Cannot convince my neighbors!
Queens are almost like weeds around here. They grow very well but look like garbage if they aren't maintained. I know your supposed to wait to trim them until the fronds are completely dry but by that point the house looks like a repo.
My favorite Palm is the Canary. I was obsessed with these things a few years ago and transplanted several into my yard. The biggest one arrived on a semi truck and took a 50T crane to place.
I pretty much slept under the thing for 3 months and constantly tested the soil moisture and drainage. It ended up dying about a year later and took several years of my life with it (due to stress and checking account damage).
Long story short - what's there now????
Queens
- May 23, 2015
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I like my ghetto-pool. I’m thinking of painting the interior...a nice chartreuse will let me hide the algae and go au-naturale on the sanitation....
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