Well, another term for bear spray, which is sold in bear-heavy national parks, is "bear mace." It does, in fact, stop menacing bears cold, but it does not work on QUITE the same principle as bug spray ...
Glass stovetops have worked well for people I know--they clean off easily and heat more evenly. However, they also BREAK easily in some case.
The cattle thing was a follow-up on that movie Dad and I watched, Castaway Cowboy. The people in the movie insisted you couldn't get cattle off the island to sell them. I wound up trying to figure out how you get cattle ON Kaua'i.
Actually, mint in our garden is rather nice--we just have to periodically beat it back into the Designated Mint Area, which is loosely defined anyway. But in a container? CHAOS!
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Date: 2010-09-27 11:40 pm (UTC)Glass stovetops have worked well for people I know--they clean off easily and heat more evenly. However, they also BREAK easily in some case.
The cattle thing was a follow-up on that movie Dad and I watched, Castaway Cowboy. The people in the movie insisted you couldn't get cattle off the island to sell them. I wound up trying to figure out how you get cattle ON Kaua'i.
Actually, mint in our garden is rather nice--we just have to periodically beat it back into the Designated Mint Area, which is loosely defined anyway. But in a container? CHAOS!