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Woke up this AM and discovered a dead hawk on the backside of our cabin. The body doesn’t look as if it’s been attacked. It is about 5 feet from the cabin and directly across from a window. Has anyone else had a hawk fly into a window? We are concerned about disease? We’ve had some smaller birds hit a window but not something this big.
Found some info here:
http://www.foothillpest.com/technical-pages/insects-and-related-pests/pine-tree-ants/Thanks Kuma, all our power, cable and phone come in underground… good investment by original builder / owner.
you may need to check overhead wires. If I recall right my Sister had issues and they found them using the phone lines from above and getting into her place that way
Have you ever had to deal with an infestation of pine ants (not carpenter ants). They look like regular small black ants, but have a potent pine smell when squished. From what I’ve read, they like to nest in the foam insulation commonly used in open beam ceilings.
Even though we have Clark Pest Control come out and spray regularly, somehow these nasty critters found a way in. What a PITA!@phabib – That sounds about right. Since access to ours is under ground, we’ll probably wait until it becomes a necessity and then have risers with lids put on at the same time we have it pumped.
I read up on septic systems when I installed mine and what I learned was that the tank stratifies into 3 layers. The top layer is being worked on, the middle stuff has finished anaerobic digestion and moves into the second chamber of the tank in two chamber tanks, or into the leach field. The stuff that can’t be digested falls to the bottom and builds up.
When the build up gets to be too much, its time to pump it out and dispose of it.
In our case with a 1500 gallon tank the design life between pumpings was about 10 years.
You can probably extrapolate from there. The book mentioned that you could poke a stick into the muck and judge how thick the bottom layer is too, but I don’t remember how thick it was allowed to get.
Sandi,
That was cool. Thanks for sharing. You were going so fast how did you not skid out on the turns :}
Sweet Pea Septic is great: http://www.sweetpeaseptic.com
Also, every 5 years you should have your septic checked.
Looking at the CHP Incident Log, it looks like an officer was working a non injury crash when another vehicle struck his patrol car requiring a tow (11-85). There were a rash of accidents up there last weekend as well.
Sr4 / Tamarack Frontage Rd
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5:09 PM 4 [6] 1185 FOR PATROL VEH ENRT/ NO OTHER 1185S NEEDED
5:07 PM 3 [5] INV IF 1185 NEEDED
5:05 PM 2 [2] ANOTH VEH HIT PATROL VEH
5:05 PM 1 [1] RPS UNIT WAS 97 AT TC
