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May 4, 2009
How to attract bats
Does anyone keep,have, house or try to make things bat friendly for their outdoor spaces? Our garden was rendered unusable last year in the summer because of mosquitos - the mosquitos in Carroll Gardnes are striped and actually come out in the day - I heard that some people put bat houses up to try to control this - is this crazy? If its as simple as putting a bat house up I need to know - if its like keeping a goat in yourback yard then that won't do-much obliged.
November 30, 2008
Have you seen any acorns?
Has any one else noticed that there are no acorns? We live in Carroll Gardens and I remember last fall you would get pelted with an acorn when you walked near certian trees and you would hear them patter as they hit parked cars all day. And I just came a across an AP article sounding the alarm. Has anyone seen any acorns in Brooklyn? I haven't. And we now have a squirrel issue where they are burrowing in a hole in a deck and eating through drywall. Poor things are starved.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27977375/
Author's Comments
Sorry I had a peice of fruit stuck in a tooth - all better now but I still hate lard bread - the thought if it makes me bloat.
Posted by: Ljubitca at November 17, 2009 3:32 PM in response to House of the Day: 121 Rapelye Street
AND I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH LARD BREAD - try the cheese, chocolate or veggie versions for crying out loud.
Posted by: Ljubitca at November 17, 2009 2:53 PM in response to House of the Day: 121 Rapelye Street
Okay so Naidre's they do sell hot food and their food so so much better than most. Mazzola's is amazing and Koto is CREEPY! Come on people who eat there?! But jesus people unless you are handicapped there is no reason to point point out what is right there - you are two blocks from court and three from Smith. Rapelye is right on the school -its not quiet during the day AND you spend most of your time digging down your dogs throat to pick up what a kid dropped on the ground. The location does have its draw but the killer is the proximity to the BQE - unless you live here you do not know how much dirt comes in through the windows. Now for the matter at hand. That house is a dump. Are those laminate floors? CHIRST HOW COMMON! You would have to start all over with a match and gasoline. And look it even has cement in the backyard - that's a card carrying feature for a CG home. CHRIST!
Posted by: Ljubitca at November 17, 2009 2:51 PM in response to House of the Day: 121 Rapelye Street
I loved the show! I love Marhta and I love Brownstoner but boy it looks like you put a lot of effort into your hair!
Posted by: Ljubitca at November 12, 2009 5:01 PM in response to Closing Bell: Martha's Brooklyn Show Now Online
I dont care if its a news copter or a copter full of Japanese-Spaniards - its abuse - this is not south central EL LAY - its a car crash for christ sakes - just a sad event made worse with overhead brown noise! Manhattan is so over - who even lives there anymore -ugh HOW COMMON!
Posted by: Ljubitca at October 26, 2009 12:35 PM in response to Copter Rage in Brooklyn Heights
Wait we live in Carroll Gardens so this is not about Brooklyn Heights - I can hear those f'ing helicopters all the time and the only thing I hate more than tourists on those double decker buses with the screeching brakes that tear at my intestines, is the noise that comes from those copters - this isnt just in BH its in CG and in Cobble hill and any of us who live nearer to the coast have to just put up with whatever money making scheme some schmuck has come up with to destroy humanity. AND I DONT HAVE A CASE OF THE MONDAYS CHRIST!!!!
Posted by: Ljubitca at October 26, 2009 11:22 AM in response to Copter Rage in Brooklyn Heights
Ljubitca wrote a review about Buddy's Burrito & Taco Bar on October 1, 2009 5:28 PM
I love, love love love - their nachos and their veggie tacos - as for how its supposed to taste if you are elsewhere doesnt matter to me. This place rocks compared to that nasty taquieria on the corner accross the street.
Amica
Posted by: Ljubitca at September 25, 2009 10:55 AM in response to Renters Insurance
*rob* what's with the door issue? where ist his coming from?
Posted by: Ljubitca at September 4, 2009 10:48 AM in response to Adventures in Advertising
Just so you kids know where this is, its on 2nd place between Henry and Clinton.
Posted by: Ljubitca at September 4, 2009 10:22 AM in response to Adventures in Advertising
wow you are some fearsome woman!
Posted by: Ljubitca at August 17, 2009 5:00 PM in response to Carroll Gardens Up in Arms Over MTA Doings
I affectionally call the Bird cage - a gerbil wheel.
So after the renovations - and just to be clear both endwill be open - correct? This entrance is the closest to us and it will be a bummer.
I am horrified to think that there will be only one exit this has night club sqaush stampede written all over it.
What also horrifies me is the people who live next door to this mess that smells of urine with their water fountain in the front yard - it must be horrible for them.
Posted by: Ljubitca at August 17, 2009 12:42 PM in response to Carroll Gardens Up in Arms Over MTA Doings
I know *rob* "buses" - How Common!
But really this is greatnews - and above ground is better than below anyday.
Posted by: Ljubitca at August 12, 2009 11:12 AM in response to Knitting Factory Moves to Williamsburg
The post office in redhook should really have been put down. I don't care if someone sends me a gold brick registered - I will never go back to that office again. I actually had hope.
Posted by: Ljubitca at August 5, 2009 10:23 AM in response to Brooklyn Spared In Great Post Office Purge of 2009
How are cold cuts healthy?!
Posted by: Ljubitca at July 15, 2009 12:42 PM in response to F. Martinella Closes After Less Than Nine Months
I never understood the focus of the store. And I admit I never stepped foot in there but really I don't get cold cuts at all. The salad bar sdid ound nice.
Posted by: Ljubitca at July 15, 2009 10:35 AM in response to F. Martinella Closes After Less Than Nine Months
Ljubitca wrote a review about Fast and Fresh Deli on July 8, 2009 1:00 PM
Does anyone know how far reaching their delivery are is?
For crying out loud - tie a beagle to the post and she will make short work of those sissy bags. GO and tell the starbucks mananagment that you are calling the po po if it happens again - of course dont call the po po because they hate cyclists - I call them cyclists because that is what they are, as bikers ride motorcycles which dont normally need to be tied down. And as long as cars/buses can kill cyclists I am all for me me me. If you are parking your stroller where bikes go you have real problems. At least remove the baby.
Posted by: Ljubitca at July 8, 2009 11:33 AM in response to Bike Parking Woes Continue
Ljubitca wrote a review about Tutta Pasta on July 7, 2009 12:35 PM
It's Tutta Pasta - sweet moses have the choices come to an end, this is a chain! I mean how common!
Ljubitca wrote a review about Mazzola's Bakery on July 6, 2009 1:22 PM
One time our puppy who is a hundred pouns and barely 6 months old - got out of his collar and made a mad dash into Mazzolas Our walker was mortifed of course but found him safely inside on line. He has probaly wanted something from there for so long since the scent perfumes Henry street everyday.
They have many other breads for those who arent fond of meat chunks in their bread, like a spinach and cheese, or the plain cheese filled not to mention the choclate baguette. The best item of all I wont even mention as I am fraid there will be a run for it.
"The once industrial dockside neighborhood that inspired "On the Waterfront?" Wasn't that Hoboken?!
The kitchen is awful! Ugh how common! Look at those awful cabinets that have nothing to do with the interior. They couldn't add a window above that sink rather than the sky?!- and why no pictures of the terraces? Are the concrete floors heated? They better be at these prices.
And excuse me most bownstones are light and airy!
I do like the garage that will house the escape mobile.
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 29, 2009 10:50 AM in response to Red Hook Townhouse Project On the Market
Shared outdoor spaces make my skin crawl.
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 28, 2009 12:45 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 80 Poplar Street, #1R
Ljubitca wrote a review about Reds Tapas Bar on May 21, 2009 1:14 PM
We love this place - it is really affordable and it so close to us - had husbands birthday there and bascially took over the place on satudday night - the staff, owner and hostess (the ownerswife) were wonderful. Love the food.
No one is supposed to be planting edibles in the ground of your gardens!?! You are supposed to put a raised bed and add your own soil. How common!
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 14, 2009 12:18 PM in response to Brooklyn Ground Zero for Lead Soil Problems
Doesn't Prospect Park do them?
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 8, 2009 10:50 AM in response to Fireworks Backlash
One of the links first posted to my question sends us to a post that says to attract bats you should soak the bat house in bat urine. I am willing to do that in well covered flesh.
I walk past City Hall everyday and night and there is definltiy a lot of activity there - perhaps you found a lazy bat.
I will continue the urine search.
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 5, 2009 1:01 PM in response to How to attract bats
And where does one get bat urine - surely that you can order???
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 5, 2009 11:56 AM in response to How to attract bats
There must be a water source otherwise where would all the mosquitos have come from? Who doesnt love bats?! They are winged kittens.
I just have to convince my husband.
We once ordered a bag of ladybugs for an aphid problem I wish we could order a bag of bats.
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 5, 2009 11:38 AM in response to How to attract bats
Sorry Rob how common was not a reference to the NJ fireworks but rather not knowing were they were from (when you saw them). I grew up in Jersey City and the Liberty State Park Fireworks were amazing and they were all we had as we couldnt see the Macys - and now I find myself on the wrong side again. I just looked up cruises for the 4th -(I know how common!) There are actually $300+ pp cruises for the 4th of July - Christ!
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 5, 2009 11:32 AM in response to Brooklynites' Hopes for 'Fourth' Fireworks Exploded
Rob you are talking about the Liberty State Park Fireworks. I mean how common!
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 5, 2009 10:46 AM in response to Brooklynites' Hopes for 'Fourth' Fireworks Exploded
I think I still would consider this Carroll Gardens. It's a lovely garden with an attack cat that is a dog hater.
Posted by: Ljubitca at May 1, 2009 11:41 AM in response to Community Garden Spotlight: Summit Street Garden
What a mess.
Posted by: Ljubitca at April 15, 2009 11:14 AM in response to Court Street Checkers In Progress
What on earth was going on in that living room? What are the current inhabitants into? This place is awful.
Posted by: Ljubitca at April 13, 2009 12:58 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 415 Argyle Road
Naidre's in Carroll Gardens
Chestnut
Char #4
The Jake Walk (fondue)
Boca Lupo
Paninoteca on Smith
Mezzat
Frankies in the summer
Posted by: Ljubitca at April 13, 2009 12:07 PM in response to Nominate Your Favorite Restaurants
This place is ugly and it sucks - how common!
Posted by: Ljubitca at March 17, 2009 2:29 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 160 Columbia Heights
Hey thanks for the smoothing over NOP - I grew up in a house much like this in Jersey City and my parents are still there and well that house sort of scares the crap out of me too. I love woodwork and old houses and such but I need light and these pictures hopefully do not do this house any justice. As that hallway screams of you being chased by the knife-weilding wood nymph that crawled out of the woodwork.
Posted by: Ljubitca at December 8, 2008 4:40 PM in response to House of the Day: 1232 Dean Street
Sorry guys but this house scares the crap out of me and the kitchen is where the murders would happen.
Posted by: Ljubitca at December 8, 2008 3:00 PM in response to House of the Day: 1232 Dean Street
I long for the day that I open brownstoner and it doesn't have an account of this tiresome opening. No other account of constuction would glorify this waste of time, virtually and in reality. It's great that a store is opening but I don't want to have to read about evey minute detail. Christ, this old house is brilliant - this is not. The only thing that would redeem this series is a blog about its dismantling - I mean really, who is the owner of BIRD sleeping with at Brownstoner to get such coverage? The account of my cat's day is more interesting.
Posted by: Ljubitca at December 5, 2008 3:46 PM in response to Bird Blog: Week 23
Speaking of closings - Margaret Palca Bakes on court is closing at the end of January. Their other location will remain open. Increase in rent and bad economy where the reasons.
Posted by: Ljubitca at December 5, 2008 3:24 PM in response to Streetlevel: Bye-Bye Boerum Hill Food Company
A similar troupe lives in Edgewater NJ - I was just as startled when I saw those just hanging around. They are handsome. If you go to the site you can pay the mp3s and drive the cats crazy.
Posted by: Ljubitca at November 22, 2008 9:46 AM in response to Yes, Virginia, There Are Parrots in South Slope
Get a bibi gun and a motion dectector light. At least she seems regular and goes at 9 am so it may help in your pursuit if it happens in daylight. Or maybe you can fix your gate and lock it?
Posted by: Ljubitca at August 22, 2008 5:41 PM in response to Return of the Stoop Pooper
Hey Guys:
We actually had 3 appointments with the parks department for pick-up of the debris - and they were no shows. They only came the first time. We are just going to get cozy with the thicket.
-j
Posted by: Ljubitca at August 12, 2008 10:26 PM in response to Garden of the Day: Clearing the Brush in Carroll Gardens
So Hanco's on Bergen beats Nicky's on Atlantic any day. Never went to the Tea Lounge on Court street nor the PS locations. So no comment on that - but something like Hancos would be a nice additions any day - Hancos for some reason never gets the press that Nickys does.
But to the one comment about Lee Lee's Valise in carroll gardens on court - and please understand that I mean no harm and no offense - I really think that store isnt going to last - we live around the corner - and I by no means would categorize the shop for women of normal size. Women of normal size are medium and large. Women who would shop there must be much, much larger and it just doesnt seem to fit into a hood where people do so much walking. That store is always empty. I dont think it would last in PS either.
Posted by: Ljubitca at July 26, 2008 6:08 PM in response to The Tea Lounge Bids Adieu
Hey I dont care if its the best school in the country I dont want to live next to it- I live around the corner from it - noise is noise and trash is trash.
Posted by: Ljubitca at November 17, 2009 5:16 PM in response to House of the Day: 121 Rapelye Street