Other - Home & Garden - March 2007

I won't have a new air conditioner for 2 weeks. It's 80 degrees in my apartment. I can't sleep, i feel sick, i have 2 cats that I can't just leave. What should I do? I have a box fan I have just sitting on the living room floor and I have a stand up fan that I have blowing directly on my bed. Yet I am still very uncomfortable. Isn't there something I can do with a box fan? Put it in the window or something? Which way should it face and etc?

2007-03-25 20:07:13 · 8 answers · asked by sulli21282 1

2007-03-25 19:50:01 · 7 answers · asked by ? 3

if you have another type of vacuum...why do you like it...

2007-03-25 17:49:45 · 10 answers · asked by marshen 1

Well being such a beautiful day, we had the doors and windows open all day. All screens are in of course. Tonight, there are these tiny little black or brown bugs that are flying all over. They look like tiny house flies, but maybe with more legs. We live in a very wooded neighborhood. We are new here, so we've never seen them before. Please help, They are EVERYWHERE... even flying into the computer screen as I type this. Please don't tell me to clean my house. It's clean.

2007-03-25 17:19:22 · 8 answers · asked by munkees81 6

You know, the ones that you plug into the wall and emit a high frequency noise that rats and mice can hear but we can't. It's supposed to drive the rodents crazy, but not bother humans and domestic animals.

2007-03-25 16:49:20 · 6 answers · asked by Mooch 4

I found this around my house and I can't figure what it is for.

http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hangerthingex4.jpg

2007-03-25 16:43:01 · 6 answers · asked by lady_jane_az 3

I am in the Bay Area.

2007-03-25 16:40:27 · 3 answers · asked by JENNIFER H 1

Not looking for the traditional room dividers - too big and too bulky and usually too expensive.

2007-03-25 16:38:21 · 4 answers · asked by sherrylynn1965 2

My dog loves to stir up skunks. I don't know how to avoid this. I don't leave anything outside that they eat, that I know of. How do I keep them away?

2007-03-25 16:24:00 · 5 answers · asked by Chad L 1

2007-03-25 15:50:29 · 4 answers · asked by darkbrother2@sbcglobal.net 1

im interersted in buying a few item from broyhill but cant seem to find the prices anywhere online. all the website list the products but not the prices.

i want to get the american era 91' couch and the american era chair

as well as on of the big poster beds

has anyone bought these items or other items like these from broyhill and have an idea of how much they charge for them?

2007-03-25 15:21:34 · 1 answers · asked by Tiffany 2

nov 06 they poured my garage floor and driveway.it was always dark looking.when it rains,it sweats real bad WET.today it puddled.the sidewalk next to the driveway and the patio were poured,a month later in dec 06 they are dry and white

2007-03-25 15:09:08 · 6 answers · asked by nascarjim8 1

how do u grow tomatoes

2007-03-25 15:04:57 · 11 answers · asked by coloradogal 1

I've read somewhere (and sometimes the labels/instructions would say) that some seeds need to be in the fridge for a number of days so that it will germinate faster. Is this true for all types of seeds? What about seeds from fruits I buy in grocery? I've got olive (from garden shop), lemon and cherry seeds (from fruits from grocery store). I plan to get eucalyptus seeds (maybe from garden shop).

2007-03-25 15:02:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a pitcher from a wash basen set and am looking to find the value of this item--anyone know where to look?--anyone know??

any help would be appreciated.

2007-03-25 14:21:48 · 3 answers · asked by Ayden's Mommy 3

2007-03-25 14:10:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm about to take down an above ground pool, and put in a barbeque/fire pit seating area. (It's all sand underneath)But I want to keep cats from using it as a giant cat box. I don't want to harm the cats.

2007-03-25 14:09:25 · 3 answers · asked by Amanda M 4

2007-03-25 14:04:21 · 7 answers · asked by dlrusher38 1

2007-03-25 13:40:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well it's that time of year again to spring clean. What aree some ways you spring clean your house? What do you do for your outside sprucing up?

2007-03-25 12:42:42 · 3 answers · asked by citygirl22_1 3

I'd like to start using the products but I would also like to be able to get a discount on them. I'm not interested in selling, though. How do I become a preferred customer?

2007-03-25 12:41:16 · 3 answers · asked by Bellamy 2

preferably for people who install it or people who have bought it......

2007-03-25 11:55:59 · 3 answers · asked by BM33 3

2007-03-25 11:42:31 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are there effective methods of killing pests that are environmentally friendly? If not tell me what pesticide is closest to enviromentally friendly? Right now my house is dealing with termites and ants.

2007-03-25 11:37:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-25 11:21:44 · 3 answers · asked by LennyWenny 2

British houses of the past were built very well and looked nice to the eye, timber-framed cottages, gracious georgian town houses, stout victorian terraces, spacious 1930's semis.
Why in the modern age do new houses resemble lego buildings. It seems as if they are built to a uniform patten and offer no scope for the imagination

2007-03-25 11:19:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is a metal building. Had to tear out the plywood floor and floor joist and bottom framing. Going to frame around the bottom edge with treated wood. Can either go with plywood again, concrete or thought about putting down plastic and then pavers inside the framing. What do you think?

2007-03-25 10:47:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-25 10:42:52 · 2 answers · asked by Shawn E 1

The house is a small (tiny) brick shell. It is an alley rowhome in a "transitional" neighborhood. The seller is rehabbing the homes and will split the equity with the original buyer when he/she sells. I am in graduate school and have very little income. These houses are going to be very efficient and seem affordable, so the idea is very attractive to me. How can I find out more, and what are the dangers?

2007-03-25 10:42:23 · 3 answers · asked by moxie 1

Hi everyone.

I am new here and to be perfectly honest, I don't even know how to explain this in an "appropriate" manner since I'm sure it isn't your ordinary run-of-the-mill question but I'll try and just hope for the best I guess.

First of all, I personally do not farm worms but I also have nothing against them or the people who raise them. I was going to ask a doctor about this but I figured that people who raised worms would probably be the people who would know the most about them.

About 2 weeks ago, a friend of mine became very intoxicated and on a dare, inserted a "regular" earthworm into his privates. He ended up losing the worm "up there" and subsequently, ended up with prostatitis (an infection of the prostate gland). As a footnote, I wasn't the one who dared him (in fact I discouraged him from doing this but there was a lot of peer pressure involved and he was VERY drunk). As a second footnote, he has had prostatitis several times in the past (for whatever reason).

Anyway, I didn't concern myself too much with it at first but being the hypochondriac that I am, I soon found myself obsessing about all sorts of diseases and so I began doing a bit of research on worms. I read on several sites that they *can* carry all sorts of bacteria, protozoa and other microorganisms but they did not say if these "organisms" were pathogenic (disease causing) in humans, what species of earthworm they were or what country the earthworms (or microorganisms) were indigenous/endemic (respectively) to.

On several other sites, I read that the gut of earthworms contained so many "good" bacteria that it was very difficult for any "bad" bacteria to survive in them because these pathogenic bacteria were neutralized and that earthworm "castings" actually had the effect of "sterilizing" the soil, etc.

Still another site talked about a girl eating an earthworm and ending up with some condition for which she was later treated (and cured).

I'm at the point now where I'm not sure what to believe and so that is why I am here asking this rather "strange" question. The worm was (I believe) a common "fishing worm" and it was taken from under a board in a yard where no dogs or cats frequented. The board itself was very large and had been there for many years. This happened in the state of Florida. It has been in his bladder for 2 weeks now and a urinalysis (4 days after this happened) showed no bacteria and all cultures were negative for anything. He seems to be doing ok except for some side effects from the antibiotic. I guess I'm just wondering if I could get some input on worm diseases (in Florida) that one might have to be concerned about under the circumstances which I just described. He's already been to the doctor who just shrugged and gave him an antibiotic so apparently the doctor wasn't too concerned.

Anyway, I apologize for the very bizarre nature of this question but I truly felt that the best people to ask about worms were the people who raise them.

PS: This is a genuine and serious question.

- Regards and thank you very much, Sid

2007-03-25 10:30:52 · 6 answers · asked by ShoeFlyPie 1