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[at-l] Trail Days report...
The list of listers at Trail Days is long and has been published here, so I
won't go through it again. I met almost all that were there...
I arrived Thursday so that I could set up the HIKE-USA booth and the
HATT2000 booth. After finding the "guy with the red shirt and suspenders",
I was assigned two side-by-side spots - on the AT behind the gazebo. My
tent is a blue mesh sided 15' x 15' structure that is designed basically to
cover a picnic table during family outings. It serves my purposes fine,
allowing for a dry place to move everything when it rains. My second
structure arrived when Big Cranky (Ken Bennett) and Little Cranky (his
daughter Meghan) arrived. They produced a tent identical to the one I
already had. We set about raising both tents, and having a wonderful time.
Other listers arrived and helped with the tent raisings. The heat was
brutal. Ken had to leave far too soon, but the visit was great. For the
rest of the day, I kibitzed and walked around town, and had a great calzone
at Quinceys...
Friday and Saturday brought great hoards of people to Damascus. The days
have melded together in my mind, and are really a blur. The heat was
intense, with spurts of rain showers. The booth next to mine was Enertia
Trail Foods (www.trailfoods.com), a company operated by listers John and
Bethany Garrett. We had had side by side booths in Hot Springs for Trail
Fest just three weeks before. They are great people with a great product
line. They are also madHATTers. Chase and Woodelf made camp with me behind
my booths. Solar Bear set up a massage center at my booth, and ALDHA also
set up a table with me. I tried to get to the AT-L photo on time, but it
was taken early. I had sent my camera to the photo shoot with Chase, in
case I didn't make it, so I do have a photo, I'm just not in it. Ryan
Brooks is a neat guy. Laid back would be a good description. He hung with
me on Friday, then got swept away on Saturday. The Old Ridge Runner hung
around quite a bit. He is great to talk to. Twilight graced me with her
company for a bit. Coosa was around now and again. The Redhead came and
went. Skyline introduced me to his new hiker dog, Savannah. His old dog,
Buttercup, had recently passed away from cancer. Apparently Savannah was a
regular at Rustys Hard Time Hollow, which is where Skyline adopted her.
Skyline is presently attempting to finish his sectioning of the AT, with a
hike from Kent CT to the Big K. Baltimore Jack Stopped by to troll us in
person. He really pissed a few of us off, but he wouldn't be Jack
otherwise...
Forgive me if I have REALLY overlooked someone here - Sandi, Leslie, Dee,
POG, Cherrio, Atwannbe, etc, etc, etc. A good time was had by all...
pittsburgh
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From: "Coosa" <coosa@fox21.net>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:14:59 -0400
Subject: Re: [at-l] Mice - let's hope Mouse
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I have spent almost 25 dollars on mouse traps of various kinds. I have 4 of
the snap ones, 4 HUGE sticky ones, 4 expensive little sticky ones and 8
dollar store sticky ones. I've baited them with bird seed. I do have some
nestle crunches, so that's after the weekend. I got 4 boxes that batteries
come in -- very small -- and made 'bait traps' with them and will be placing
3 'green fish flavor' mouse baits in them.
BUT first, I'm rinsing EVERYthing with chlorine water, drying it and placing
the salvagables in the 3 sterlite 38 qt plastic 'boxes' for my soft-pack
edibles and the canned goods will go in cardboard boxes.
I will clean out all the shelving, detox it and put the plastic, etc, back
in the open area and the mouse bait and other traps in the dark corners.
The sticky traps I'll place at intervals along the baseboard. OnE of the
baited boxes under the sink. I have the Four large sticky traps guarding
the opening from the kitchen to my living room. I just ealized I have TWO
25 pound bags of bird seed next to the front door. Mouse heaven?
I may go back to the dollar store and get a trash can to stick my bird seed
in -- they have 8 dollar ones. So, I'll have spent almost 35 on these
meeeces, if I do that.
Oh, did I mention that I feel violated? I am the Nicest Person a Wild Mouse
will find -- he/she was there first, so I give him or her plenty of room. I
am not pleased with mice in the shelters, but I do them no harm. BUT, the
mouse has invaded MY space here, and isn't giving me the same respect I give
mice in the wild.
The mouses have walked into the wrong tent, here. Kind of like the couple
GiveMeChocolate and Leslie saw under Leslie's vestibule. Kind of like only.
Trying to keep my sense of humor -- I could have bought a lot of gear with
the money I'm spending to get rid of these mice!
Coosa
PS, total cost for the additional items is closer to 50 dollars -- I'm
ticked off now. Okay mice here I come.
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