How many of you actually use your whirlpool tubs?
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Comments (31)Bernd, Bill Meyer, who wrote the original article you were looking for tends to agree with you regarding the level of toxicity of both products. While it is true that a smaller amount of metaldehyde is potentially lethal, the nature of Iron poisoning is slow and painful for mammals. In addition metaldehyde manufacturers have added a lot more bitrex, a bitter tasting material, in order to make it less palatable. Here's Bill's explanation in a private email (reprinted with permission): "The metaldehyde bait of prefrence is the MP (mini pellet) size, and that's really what people should use. Pellets are about the size of half a grain of rice. That size is generally small enough for most birds and animals to ignore. Dogs are the main problem with it. The EPA upped the amount of bitrex required tenfold a few years ago and it seems to have reduced poisonings well. The bait component is attractive to most animals but dogs can and do sometimes ignore the bitrex taste. Always spread it very thin - about 3 mini pellets per square foot. That's what we do here and I've never found a poisoned animal or bird with three applications a year for ten years or so. about a tablespoon of this could be fatal to a small dog. The iron phosphate/EDTA baits are quite a bit less toxic by volume so a lot more is needed to kill an animal. On the surface that sounds like "all you need to know", but it isn't by a long stretch. The absence of bitrex and appealing scent could lead to a lot more consumption than the metaldehyde baits. With bags dishonestly marked "safe for pets and wildlife", many people will ignore safety precautions and leave bags where pets might get into them. Then there's the type of poison each is. Metaldehyde is a quick-acting nervous system poison. If you or an animal gets enough to kill it will do so pretty quickly. If it isn't enough to kill, recovery should go well with little or no residual damage. Iron poisoning is much different, and has a nastier side. If high enough to kill, it is pretty nasty in itself, but non-fatal doses can do permanent organ damage, particularly through the digestive system. Additionally, while metaldehyde clears the system quickly, iron continues to build up with each ingestion and is only very slowly cleared from the system. Dogs in particular do not clear excess iron very well at all. As these pellets all last weeks outside repeated feeding outdoors on iron phosphate/EDTA pellets can occur until symptoms appear. Personally I consider them equally poisonous - just in different ways. As long as everybody gets that they should know to be careful about their use and storage. It is long past time for the EPA to put poison warnings on the iron phosphate packaging." Everyone needs to be careful using these baits. Steve...See Morehow many of you use your shutters ?
Comments (9)I don't think our cottage (home) originally had them. We might put up wooden decorative ones at some point though. We looked at a few other cottages that DID originally have them and still do, and it was a feature I really liked although I doubt we would have used them too often. Typically here they were used to "closeup" the cottage for winter when it wasn't being used and since we live here year-round we wouldn't need that feature. I do have a set and two mismatched shutters from a now demolished home in town that we salvaged and use as closet doors. They were in pretty rough shape and unfortunately missing the house portion of the hinges. I fixed them up (as best as I could, we still have one slat missing to reproduce at some later point) and we had to use cabinet hinges since I couldn't find matching "house side" parts for the ones they had. Interestingly, they have roman numerals carved on one side of each one-different numbers, but they don't really convert to years or the address of the home. I would LOVE to know what those are for!...See MoreHow many of you use your dining room?
Comments (72)So much has happened (husband quite ill, husband getting better, husband home, but with wheel chair, then walker) that I'm starting to rethink some of my earlier ideas, for remodeling the house. (It's going to be a while, but still hoping to do it at some point!) I've been watching Nicole Curtis and liking the living room open to dining room that she has in so many of the older homes. I really like the built-ins and fireplace (even the stained wood trim!) and I'm rethinking the living room/bedroom. The addition put the bedroom behind the living room, but it would be so easy to open them up to each other, with a big archway. The living room is 18 'x 14' and the bedroom is 18' x 13'. It's a lot of space for an area we might no use as much as the kitchen and den, but I think it would be beautiful. And it might be a great place to overflow, when we have a lot of work to do and need more space than our home office. So, anyone done anything similar? Have you turned a lager room into the dining room and decided to keep the smaller dining area part of the kitchen? That room is pretty small, so the current kitchen and dining room would make a great kitchen/nook area. Just not big enough for more than 4 (maybe 6) people to eat...and we have a large family! After what's happened, I realize you can't take anything for granted and want to start hosting more holiday and family dinners, as soon as we can :)...See More*Floof* how many sinks DO you actually have?
Comments (66)Forgot to say earlier I was swooning so over Annies outhouse, lol.... 6 sinks. 4 toilets. The double basin kitchen sink, kitchen/garden powder room, and my loves office bathroom sinks are most often used. That can go down to just the kitchen sink- it's happened during power outages to set up the 5 gal water bottle over it for everything for a couple days. For me it would be really, really weird to have run out of all soap of bar, liquid, foaming, dish, body, shampoo, laundry liquid... to the extent that I have to restock all hand washing ability at all sinks at the same time....See Moredebbiejoy_ca
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