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KatyMan

(4,180 posts)
87. Our bamboo is great
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 10:41 AM
Feb 2013

we really love it. It does scratch, so you have to be careful when moving furniture around. We don't have young kids or dogs either (only grownups and cats in the house), so it doesn't get the wear and tear a lot of floors get. We did all of the non-wet areas of the house in it, and tile in the bathrooms and kitchen. Really happy with it, easy to maintain, wasn't too difficult to put in, cheap and sustainable. Wins all around. Having no carpet in your house makes you realize how dirty carpet gets!

Another beer can story--my brother and his wife had a painting party at their house one year, and my friend and I were painting some built-in bookshelves that were on either side of the fireplace (a typical late 70s/early 80s sort of fireplace). The shelves went all the way to the ceiling so we painted an empty beer can the same color as the back wall of the shelves and put it at the back of the top shelf. It was there for something like 3 years before they noticed it. Pretty funny to get a phone call from my brother asking "did you put that beer can there?".

This is why the duck is taped [View all] Major Nikon Feb 2013 OP
lol. nt seabeyond Feb 2013 #1
Now I know where "Fuck a Duck" came from! n/t Still Sensible Feb 2013 #2
OOPS! pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #3
What is it trying to write? LiberalEsto Feb 2013 #4
I think it's the silhouette of the Aflack duck! csziggy Feb 2013 #6
He is injured! Cracklin Charlie Feb 2013 #31
It's a pic of MFM au naturel pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #9
"Fuck You" would be my guess Major Nikon Feb 2013 #19
I hope they left it - that would be a pretty cool sidewalk to have... petronius Feb 2013 #5
Agree! :) KatyMan Feb 2013 #8
Cool! OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #14
I am be the only person in the world who is not that fond of bamboo. . . Hamlette Feb 2013 #25
Heh, I'm thinking about growing some bamboo outside too OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #28
Be careful with bamboo spinbaby Feb 2013 #32
Those underground runners formercia Feb 2013 #83
Have you considered what the neighborhood brats UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2013 #53
noooope OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #56
I guess it depends on the type of bamboo. UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2013 #61
I'll definitely research before planting anything OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #63
There are some miniature varieties that are beautiful pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #73
Consider ornamental grass spinbaby Feb 2013 #86
5 dollars?! OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #88
A friend of mine used to install liner swimming pools Hamlette Feb 2013 #85
oh, and reminded of the op, I'd consider cement Hamlette Feb 2013 #26
Yeah I have seen some pretty great looking cement things OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #35
Our bamboo is great KatyMan Feb 2013 #87
Another thing that lets you know OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #89
It's a thread about a duck walking on wet cement... it's all side-track JHB Feb 2013 #90
graywarrior's secret's out - or is it? dmr Feb 2013 #7
I'm still wondering how "the thread that would never die" died. Javaman Feb 2013 #22
The technical term is "euthanasia" Bucky Feb 2013 #71
Leaving some quacks in the cement. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2013 #10
They're going to bill him for that pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #11
Waddle they do to fix it? Robb Feb 2013 #15
Feather out the tracks pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #17
Wow! That's going to make a large bill. kurtzapril4 Feb 2013 #23
But what a tail he'll have to tell pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #24
Ms. Duck is weaving kurtzapril4 Feb 2013 #39
She'd better duck and cover... pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #45
I hope he knows how kurtzapril4 Feb 2013 #46
He's hoping his boss isn't in a fowl mood pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #49
I bet if a pretty lady kurtzapril4 Feb 2013 #50
I'm sure he'd give her a gander pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #51
I hope she wouldn't fly off the handle, though. kurtzapril4 Feb 2013 #54
No, as they say... pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #55
It's special when two people kurtzapril4 Feb 2013 #62
STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP IT!! Bucky Feb 2013 #72
Are you ill? Eider know--you seem okay to me. nt pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #75
I hope they don't paddle the duck for that. Arugula Latte Feb 2013 #78
You guys are quacking me up! LOL StrictlyRockers Feb 2013 #84
I'm down with all these bad puns. BlueStreak Feb 2013 #58
Welcome to the club pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #60
Old concrete finisher here madokie Feb 2013 #12
I was having a bad day pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #16
Did it look something like this? kentauros Feb 2013 #27
My car! pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #29
You're a woman lawyer in Houston? kentauros Feb 2013 #33
Only when I'm indercover pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #41
Or "inderconcrete" kentauros Feb 2013 #42
We're trained to deeply cement our cover identities pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #64
Exactly madokie Feb 2013 #34
I'm guessing with this one kentauros Feb 2013 #38
more than likely just cut out the part that was damaged and replace only it madokie Feb 2013 #68
Okay, thanks. kentauros Feb 2013 #69
My bad pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #77
The Bimbo Twinkies? kentauros Feb 2013 #80
The Twinkie defense was used for the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #81
Or, kentauros Feb 2013 #82
Duck Amuck! Fumesucker Feb 2013 #13
And so it is written, on the 49th day of the thirteenth year a duck will appear Tyrs WolfDaemon Feb 2013 #18
He did his own profile. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #20
That's a really artistic duck. Chellee Feb 2013 #74
It is! :) Solly Mack Feb 2013 #76
But once the cement is dry we can release him, right? CrispyQ Feb 2013 #21
Defiance... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #30
I'm glad she is FREE anyway. And I think that's improved concrete. nt patrice Feb 2013 #36
Somebody go tell graywarrior!! patrice Feb 2013 #37
Thanks for the laugh graywarrior Feb 2013 #40
Duck: Problem? Dash87 Feb 2013 #43
LOL treestar Feb 2013 #44
I predict orange sauce is in this duck's future. DrewFlorida Feb 2013 #47
Why did the duck cross the (wet) sidewalk? rurallib Feb 2013 #48
Obvious: ChazInAz Feb 2013 #57
graywarrior was in hot pursuit pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #59
Natures stamped concrete... midnight Feb 2013 #52
After they put in a new walk in my empty neighboring house's yard, MineralMan Feb 2013 #65
That might just piss me off too, except for one thing... Gorp Feb 2013 #66
Now I know "why a duck?". longship Feb 2013 #67
Wait, I think that duck is spelling something. Bucky Feb 2013 #70
If that were MY drivewsy I would leave it just like that. Very cute. n/t leeroysphitz Feb 2013 #79
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