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Unread 06-07-2009, 01:26 PM
 
Location: Deep fried Okrahoma
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You should have gotten out and moved them.
Yeah, but that's kind of hard to do when you are 4 years old and your dad is driving. I remember Oklahoma being one big amazing wonderment. Every day was a new adventure.

BTW, Raelyn sounds like cali-okie girl.
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Unread 06-07-2009, 10:44 PM
 
Location: Flower Mound, Texas
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Default Paybacks are a bear!!!

Yeeees, but Cali has roaches and other ugly bugs too. Actually we only had hobo spiders in Oregon and slugs which I picked up with my hands and flushed down the toilet.. I am not as primadonna as you are all making me out to be. You better hope that I don't run into you somewhere in Tulsa... I am known to do paybacks...LOL!!! Ask my boys about that!!!
ha ha, thanks for the bug pics and updates...
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Unread 06-07-2009, 10:56 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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Yeeees, but Cali has roaches and other ugly bugs too. Actually we only had hobo spiders in Oregon and slugs which I picked up with my hands and flushed down the toilet.. I am not as primadonna as you are all making me out to be. You better hope that I don't run into you somewhere in Tulsa... I am known to do paybacks...LOL!!! Ask my boys about that!!!
ha ha, thanks for the bug pics and updates...
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paybacks a bear!!!............
That's not the way it goes...
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Unread 06-08-2009, 02:02 PM
 
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YOU GUYS ARE SCARING ME!! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO WANT TO MOVE THERE WITH ALL THESE BUGS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT? I THOUGHT THAT THE BROWN RECLUSE WAS ONLY IN THE PNW?? WE USED TO HAVE THEM IN OREGON AND I DIDN'T THINK THE MIDWEST HAD THOSE TYPES OF SPIDERS. UGH, I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO ALL OF THIS. AND HOW IS THE HUMIDITY, HOW LONG DOES IT LAST? IT DOESN'T LIKE MY HAIR AT ALL
There is a reason most Okies let their hair grow straight, humidity. just kidding.

On the good note: We do have beauty parlors.

On another good note: Most people's home are not replete with brown recluse spiders.

We don't have roaches. I have not seen a gopher or a mole since I got here. Maybe I am just lucky. We don't have rattlesnakes in some areas, but then on a bad note, we do have copperheads and water mocassins.

Humidity lasts all summer.

On a good note: It isn't as bad as Mississippi or the coast of Florida.

To the poster of the spider: So that is what a wolf spider looks like. We had huge ones in our house last year, and one was on the wall. I thought that I would help it outside, so I wanted to use the fly swatter to pick him up, when all the sudden he flew into the air and landed I no not where. I jumped back and screamed. Now we just kill them, and I let my husband do that.

On a good note: I love dragonflies, and we had a large one in the house, and so I got him to climb up on my finger and then he allowed me to take him back outside.

On another good note: I just ordered some praying mantis'. This will be fun. But they don't eat ticks. Now you can get some guinea hens that will.

And what the heck are these biting flies all about?

You can get a mosquito plant that keeps mosquitoes away from you. They sell them here and are really called citronella geranium. I used some leaves on my arms last year and it worked better than the sprays.

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Unread 06-08-2009, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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The humidity is something you can get use to. After 36years of living with dry/desert heat, I had no problem getting use to it.
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Unread 06-08-2009, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Cushing OK
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The humidity is something you can get use to. After 36years of living with dry/desert heat, I had no problem getting use to it.
I could do with the muck out there to go right now, but in all honesty this feels JUST like Riverside in the summer. It used to be desert, and we had a swamp cooler. Then people move in mass to the desert and had to have green lawns and water hungry trees and humidity level soared. Last summer was 100 plus with humidity in the 60's and 70's on a good day.

So for me it is like I never left Riverside right now except for the rain. Unless we got a hit from a coastal storm or some of the Arizona monsoon migrated a bit.

But my house has had an interesting selection of bugs, but NO roaches, NONE of the obnoxious ants which live in a giant anthill under Riverside and are tiny but bite with vengence. When I get a chance to get out of town there are big green areas with no houses and that road to OKC which is still Route 66 is very cool.

Compensations, compensations. Everywhere is a balance sheet. As long as the bugs stay outside and do their thing there can be a zillion species. But man would love to see a wolf spider, but would have to rescue it from the cat.
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Unread 06-08-2009, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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I could do with the muck out there to go right now, but in all honesty this feels JUST like Riverside in the summer. It used to be desert, and we had a swamp cooler. Then people move in mass to the desert and had to have green lawns and water hungry trees and humidity level soared. Last summer was 100 plus with humidity in the 60's and 70's on a good day.

So for me it is like I never left Riverside right now except for the rain. Unless we got a hit from a coastal storm or some of the Arizona monsoon migrated a bit.

But my house has had an interesting selection of bugs, but NO roaches, NONE of the obnoxious ants which live in a giant anthill under Riverside and are tiny but bite with vengence. When I get a chance to get out of town there are big green areas with no houses and that road to OKC which is still Route 66 is very cool.

Compensations, compensations. Everywhere is a balance sheet. As long as the bugs stay outside and do their thing there can be a zillion species. But man would love to see a wolf spider, but would have to rescue it from the cat.
watch-it...some Oklahomans don't know what a swamp cooler is.
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Unread 06-08-2009, 08:36 PM
 
Location: OK City
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watch-it...some Oklahomans don't know what a swamp cooler is.
Absolutely. I had never heard of a swamp cooler until I lived on the West coast.
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Unread 06-08-2009, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Flower Mound, Texas
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Default Uh huh!!!

Oh yes... for me that is the way it goes... You tease me and you end up with a fish in your car. I had two older brothers that taught me well and a husband and two sons that are pranksters!!!


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Unread 06-08-2009, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Flower Mound, Texas
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Default Uh huh!!!

My two boys purchased a plastic spider in Cali and put it on my pillow.. I almost had a heart attack!!! I can tell that the poster on this forum is a prankster!!! LOL!!

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That's not the way it goes...
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