mina_crys

Had a rainy week and left a 5 gallon bucket out with a weeds in it. Went out to mow and shoved over the nearly full bucket and grossly dark water (fearing for mosquito larvae) only to see a dead squirrel or chipmunk lying there (didn't inspect but ran away in a true girly manner).

It smells terrible in the yard now and I don't know what to do with it.

I could throw it in the garbage but my curbside collection isn't for six more days (don't want that festering in my large can).

Will burying the little rodent where it lays eradicate the terrible smell?

Please help. Thanks

Here's the thing:

I have been dating a man for nearly two years who is almost wholly the opposite of me from political beliefs, religion, and nearly everything else. It leads for great discussions to say the least. In many ways we compliment one another greatly.

I am having issues with one way we are opposite. Sense of humor.

He thinks it is the funniest thing to make light yet unrelenting jabs at me. None of these things are so bad I would consider it verbal abuse (no name calling, threats). Individually I don't feel as though these things would anger me, it is the procession that often angers me greatly. I have told him on numerous occasions to stop or lessen it, yet I almost feel as though it is almost ingrained in his person. He declares it as part of his sense of humor, and that I need to lighten up, that I am too sensitive.

A couple of examples: When I make statements or comments he rolls his eyes or makes "overly cooperative/agreeable (mocking)" facial expressions (often multiple times per evening), repeatedly pokes at me in the nose, ear, mouth, or sits with his face two inches from mine (because it's funny to see me squirm away), pokes fun at my excessive use of rarely used vocabulary, making fun of my hobbies (this might be what angers me the most) such as making fun of my cooking, gardening, or decorating.

I understand that there is humor to be found in somethings that occur on a day to day basis with which I have always been fine (in past relationships). And there are some things which I can laugh at with him.

I do not wish to discuss this with family and friends so I am asking for opinion. Am I overreacting?

I am sorry if this is lengthy . . .

I rent a home on a very quiet block of a somewhat noisy neighborhood. I am a single parent of one seven year old daughter. We are also very quiet and spend a lot of time outdoors. I also have a nice wooden swing set that I bought for my daughter last fall which I think will become quite a nuisance with other children wanting to come over to play.

Across a near intersection is a home with regularly bad tenants. The current tenant is a mother with three children. I saw the mother, son (probably seven or eight), and toddler in a stroller walking home from the neighborhood school one day and was appalled at the mother's behavior. In the span of one block she stopped three times and (mildly) shook the stroller yelling at the crying toddler to "shut up" and "f---ing shut up.."

Now comes her daughter who we have just met today (she appears to be around ten). Right away she invited herself to make use of the swing set, my daughter's scooter, as well as attempting to follow us indoors when I told her it was time for us to go in. About an hour later when my father was over assembling my daughter's new bike the girl entered my home without permission, attempted to hop on the exercise bike and computer which are both in my living room. I stopped her immediately and told her she needed to go home, that she wasn't welcome in our home uninvited. She asked if she could sleep over and in response to a no from me asked if she could play tomorrow. I told her perhaps she could play tomorrow, outside, and with permission from her mother. I also told her we would be out part of the next as we had errands to run (which she promptly invited herself along).

When testing the bike outdoors she stopped by again and informed me that she would be coming along when we go to the store "and stuff" tomorrow. I told her no she could not come, that I did not know her or her family. This girl is persistent, I still think she believes she's coming along!

Later this evening I spoke to my friend (and daughter's former daycare supervisor who knows about kids and parents) about the neighbors as she lives directly next door to this house. She warned me to stay away from them at all costs, to not even attempt to speak with her (the mother). That the children are rude and desperately seek attention and that the mother is also rude and requests rides from her.

Any advice would be outstanding. . . (p.s. I live in this neighborhood while attending school/working from home due to the affordability until I graduate and am ready to buy, not willing to move).

My boyfriend is an avid crypto fan. It's all monsterquest and sasquatch books! Anhow, in his attempts to convert me he would like me to look at a particular video clip and photograph which neither of us can find online.

The photographs are of a supposed bigfoot that was captured in the late 1800s. The video was on a show he saw in the mid-to-late eighties on a network channel. It came from a couple that were on horseback in Montana. Not the Patterson video.

Sorry those are the only details I know. Any help?

I moved into a new home this winter. Now the snow is starting to melt and I am seeing little presents left from a dog all over the yard! I am not a pet person and have never had a dog. Is a scooper my only option for removal? It has been sitting over the winter and from what I can tell it doesn't seem quite. . . solid.

Last year my sister and I started living together and since then I have only one houseplant remaining, my aloe plant. The damned thing has eaten all or part of my older house plants including my ivy, philodendron, and violets as well as new trees (palm and orange) which I received as a gift. (the cat didn't die from any of it just threw up all over).

what the hell can I grow that it won't eat, or any ideas how to keep the damned thing away? Since the cat can reach anything in the house that it wants to.