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pyesetz

News of the week

Mar 27, 2009 18:24

On Thursday of last week, the drain pipe from my kitchen sink, laundry tub, and washer/dryer plugged up solid. As mentioned before, the drain pipes in my house were rather sluggish when I moved in and have been getting slowly worse ever since. On Friday I used Google Maps to find the closest plumber to my house, since if I was going to start a ( Read more... )

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First ve get moose an skwirrel ungulata March 28 2009, 00:21:49 UTC

Say what?? Behold the glory that is the (north) American Red Squirrel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Squirrel

Re: First ve get moose an skwirrel pyesetz March 28 2009, 00:44:06 UTC

Yup, that's probably it! Thanks once again for explaining the difference between "knowing how to use Wikipedia" and "knowing what I'm talking about". If I cared, I should probably alter the "red squirrel" article to note that the name is also used for the "American red squirrel".

cassander42 March 28 2009, 04:17:10 UTC

Did it look kinda like a chipmunk but with a fluffy tail? If so, then yeah, it's a red squirrel. But if it's head and body looked more like a grey squirrel, then it's probably a color variation of that.

Also, do you have a lot of firs or other conifers near where you live? Red squirrels like that.

Frai and I spotted an American red squirrel for the first time last summer in West Virginia. We were up around 4,000 in the Dolly Sods which has lots of firs. The environment is more akin to Canada than the surrounding area, with wildlife such as snowshoe hairs and the aforementioned red squirrel.

For what it's worth, "black squirrels" are common around DC too, having been brought to the region maybe a hundred years ago or so from Ontario. We have a few around our apartment... they're cool.

cassander42 March 28 2009, 04:21:46 UTC

Er, if it's body looks like a grey squirrel, it also might be a fox squirrel. I've never seen one of those live before or researched them much, though, so I can't say too much about them.

pyesetz March 28 2009, 04:34:17 UTC

The fox squirrel is also caleld "monkey-face squirrel", but I didn't get such a great look at the face.

cassander42 March 28 2009, 14:55:59 UTC

Something is strange. By email, I was notified of two comments by you. But only this short one is showing up, rather than the longer one. Even when I logged in I can't see it.

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avenginglioness March 29 2009, 01:27:19 UTC

"...the neighbour-plumber showed up and spent a solid hour reaming out my pipes.">

*snickers* XD

avenginglioness March 29 2009, 01:27:55 UTC

oh lol forgot to close tag and I has no paid account. can't edit. *cry*

pyesetz March 29 2009, 02:15:29 UTC

LJ fixed it so the italics don't "bleed" into following comments.

Note that the above "mentioned before" link includes the brownish text buttsex to help ensure that readers get the joke about "having a nice weekend" after the reaming. And then there's the bit about the journeyman plumber and the "re-hung" pipe...

But everyone else commented on the wildlife biology bit instead :(