I was at Home Depot getting a new chiminea when we saw this sign. It seems like fear mongering to me. I havent even seen one here and as the sign says they only come out ever 17 years anyways.
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06/08/2013 17:10 #57777
Beware of Cicadas?Category: terror
06/08/2013 15:58 #57776
Im going to find youCategory: robbery
I was quitely dusting blinds when I thought I saw someone move across the foyer. I knew (e:terry) was outside mowing the front lawn. The door was open, but he was right out there. I decided it was nothing and went back to dusting. Then I see someone pickup my laptop up off the the dining room table.
I confront the guy and he says his friend told him to pick it a laptop. He thought it was his friends house that looks just like this. Sure. there isn't even another house in buffalo that looks like this. So I tell him to get out and yell to (e:terry) who calls the police but the guy starts running. So I chase him to an abandoned lot between the "multicultural potential center" and a residential lot. He kept going into the field but I got weirded out being there by myself and called the police.
They arrived within two minutes but he had gotten away. I am so curious if he got anything else. Luckily, I had just cleaned out downstairs for a party a friend of ours is throwing here tonight, so I think there was nothing else to steal.
I wonder if he lives in the alley next to the dumpster. There were a lot of clothes and a shopping cart there.
tinypliny - 06/14/13 20:17
Atrocious!! Guess you need to lock your door always - even if you are in the yard. Who knows, one of these days you may not have been watching!
Atrocious!! Guess you need to lock your door always - even if you are in the yard. Who knows, one of these days you may not have been watching!
paul - 06/09/13 02:10
I got it back.
I got it back.
lilho - 06/09/13 01:10
This makes me so mad... So he got away with your laptop? Situations like this totally warrant having mace or a taser...
This makes me so mad... So he got away with your laptop? Situations like this totally warrant having mace or a taser...
metalpeter - 06/08/13 19:54
It is still crazy... hoping nothing else...
It is still crazy... hoping nothing else...
paul - 06/08/13 16:58
I just wanted to know what else he might have taken from me.
I just wanted to know what else he might have taken from me.
metalpeter - 06/08/13 16:22
That is insane.... like what would you have done if you caught him ? and also how did he go right passed Terry who was mowing... Doesn't make it any less worse .....
That is insane.... like what would you have done if you caught him ? and also how did he go right passed Terry who was mowing... Doesn't make it any less worse .....
06/06/2013 00:36 #57768
Side GardenCategory: garden
Just got done working at midnight. Wish I saw more daytime.  There are already so many roses and flowers in the side garden.  Wish it would just stay warmer for the tortoise.



tinypliny - 06/14/13 20:17
So pretty! ottawa is exactly like Buffalo. All these flowers at this time of the year!
So pretty! ottawa is exactly like Buffalo. All these flowers at this time of the year!
06/04/2013 09:12 #57761
Quick Work Trip to NYCCategory: work
My new boss and had to attend a two hour meeting in Manhattan on Monday. We flew out of Buffalo at 10am and were home by 10:45am. 95% of it was travel time.
The meeting went great and the people we met told us exactly what we had antcipated they were going to say, which was a good thing.
The only bad part was getting soaked in the downpour. Next time I am bringing an umbrella. I can't believe I didn't thibk to bring one or at least my waterprood backpack.
tinypliny - 06/14/13 20:18
Whoa - look at you. Jetsetting businessman! ;-)
Whoa - look at you. Jetsetting businessman! ;-)
metalpeter - 06/04/13 19:16
wow I've never even been to NYC.... New Rochelle I think is 20 minutes from Manhattan but not sure if that is the Burro or the School ... It was a swim trip many years ago so not like we got to escape and go there.... Love the horse great photos....
wow I've never even been to NYC.... New Rochelle I think is 20 minutes from Manhattan but not sure if that is the Burro or the School ... It was a swim trip many years ago so not like we got to escape and go there.... Love the horse great photos....
YesThatCasey - 06/04/13 15:11
Interesting...my first experience with rain in NYC was a mob of street vendors appearing out of nowhere offering people umbrellas for $2.
Interesting...my first experience with rain in NYC was a mob of street vendors appearing out of nowhere offering people umbrellas for $2.
06/03/2013 23:46 #57757
My name is firecracker - I was born on the fourth of JulyCategory: firecracker
the scary thing is that this is not even my Fourth of July outfit.
tinypliny - 06/14/13 20:18
Okay last pic - totally creepy. LOL
Okay last pic - totally creepy. LOL
metalpeter - 06/04/13 04:50
nice video...
nice video...
Robert - 06/04/13 00:48
that was a pretty awesome outfit, i gotta say.
that was a pretty awesome outfit, i gotta say.
Oh well.. I will miss them..
they are kind of neat!
Exactly, they haven't been around in 17 years because that's their incubation period, as I understand it. This year there are supposed to be a gazillion coming out at one, from NY to North Carolina. It's been all over the news.
What I remember is that Brood 2 follows the Hudson Valley up to around Albany. Here's a map of where Brood 2 is expected to emerge :::link::: I think Rochester gets a different brood. Since you grew up around here, if you tell me that you seen 'em, I believe you.
We have cicadas I have seen them but maybe not the 17 year ones.
If memory serves, I remember reading that Western New York doesn't have cicadas.