On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:06:12 GMT, <lucasea@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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>"beav" <BEAVITH1@NETSCAPE.NET> wrote in message
>news:3js7h25asi8qvqus5chkt09ftusonbldcg@4ax.com.. .
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>> the tractor was a hangar queen
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>8^D I've heard that term used as regards Jags, but never a lowly garden
>tractor.
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>> frankly, i'd go for the moth balls, and when i get back from this
>> weekend, i think i'm going that way.
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>I assume you are implying that you prefer the smell of mothballs to that of
>dryer sheets. That may be the case after short-term exposure, but the
>mothball smell really hangs around and gets into things, and quickly becomes
>irritating. Have you read the (probably apocryphal) story about the guy
>that thought he would outsmart a squirrel by using mothballs to drive it
>away? The story goes that the squirrel got the last laugh by taking all the
>mothballs and stashing them in the wall of this guy's house. The smell was
>so into intolerable that he had to tear down the wall and clean it out.
>Like I said, probably an urban legend, but certainly the purported effect is
>plausible.



the tractor is in the shed. they can drag those moth balls anywhere
they like. : )

i've got 2 cats and i know how to use them.

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>> of course, last night, i ran out and covered my new tractor with dryer
>> sheets...
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>I wonder if it's the chemicals or the perfumes in the dryer sheets that
>repel rodents? If it's the chemicals, than odorless dryer sheets might be
>just the ticket.


whatever it takes..


>Eric Lucas
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