Good question eh? The best solution so far? Steal ’em. Thats right, simply poach from a competitor. Have a little chat with a big 3 company technician…you know, Abell/Orkin/Steritech as you run into one picking up product at Gardex. I see it daily. Or put your business card under the wiper every time you see […]
Read More »February 10th, this constantly cold Kansan is standing next to the lake an hour north of Toronto trout fishing. Not ice fishing as you’d imagine, but using a 9’ fly rod and cast a leech patterned fly into open water around the dam. Second day of record temps, 12 degrees and sunny! And the second […]
Read More »Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow! The Queen of carbon monoxide herself, The Right or Left Honorable Olivia Chow. Oh, c’mon Robert, she’s all about green and trees and tree huggers and peace on earth, good will blah blah So here’s why she’s the only nomination. Bike Lanes. I repeat: BIKE LANES Another OMG Robert, bike […]
Read More »Thats right, I’m now getting advice from Uber drivers. Every Wednesday I usually head to downtown Toronto to have a pretty young doctor stick needles into my spine…supposedly to alleviate pain. Thats not a joke. And if you’ve ever driven in downtown TO you’ll soon realize Uber is the only sane way to go. Or […]
Read More »As the year winds to a close it’s a great time to take a well-deserved deep breath. Business is slowing down as the occasional invaders from outside die off with the frost, but a great long Indian Summer helped fill the coffers with an extra treatment here and there. In retrospect not a bad year […]
Read More »It’s 3:25 am, another night of not sleeping, and i just devoured a left over hot dog and a homemade chocolate shake. so you lie awake at night and your mind roams. And tonite I’m dwelling on all the ”cide” words, which generally regard killing something. Herbicide, pesticide, homicide, genocide, biocide, even molluscicide of all […]
Read More »It’s gotta be the age, or post C19, or something that makes time seem to fly by. What happened to the summer, and all the fun bugs that go with it? Anyone see uptick in overall treatments? “Not really” or ”meh” is the answer I get most of in the back. Ants? Plenty hot enough, […]
Read More »The city of Toronto has just had an environmental event with contaminated water breaching a local waterway that feeds into Lake Ontario. A large chemical supplier/warehouse catches fire, and in order to contain the 7 alarm inferno from other chemical warehouses a vast amount of water was thrown at the blaze. The end result was […]
Read More »Since my two local, around the corner hardware stores closed I am now a frequent shopper at Home Depot. Partially because of my new old man past time of hiding in the garage making toothpicks and sawdust out of big boards. Then buying more boards, making more toothpicks, and repeating the cycle until I die […]
Read More »I’m bewildered at how local government can override all the data and research and chemists, ecologists, microbiologists, toxicologists, MD’s and Phd’s who work at Health Canada in the PMRA. That means the PMRA’s highly valued, educated, and respected scientists put in years of work for nothing? It certainly doesn’t guarantee the pesticide can be used. […]
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