Re: Peanut butter and sticky stuff

["Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My grandkids go to the local church and bring home pine cones. They cover
the pine cones with peanut butter, then roll them in bird seed. The birds
enjoy a nice treat until the squirrels come by and take the whole thing
away.

Jim Rojas


"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> But what do you do about the squirrels following you around?
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> "Charles Booth" <chasbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | The message re vinyl windows and sticky tape removal remined me of a
> | trick I learned at my garden club many years ago.
> |
> | One of the club members was demonstrating her craft: making Christmas
> | wreaths with wire and pine branches, adorned with red boughs, etc.
> |
> | At the end of her demonstration her hands were covered with spots of
> | sticky pine pitch.  We then saw her open up a bottle of peanut butter
> | and apply several teaspoons of it to her hands.  She began the usual
> | rubbing we all do when washing our hands, and a few moments later
> | after wiping her hands with a paper towel, her hands were free of the
> | pitch!
> |
> | I have used peanut butter many times to clean my hands of sticky stuff
> | that I previously removed with laquer thinner, a solvent I used for
> | cleaning my foil brushes. Not the best stuff for human skin.
> |
> | To remove  paper labels with a sticky back, I will use hot water to
> | turn the paper into mush, remove the mush, and then apply a small
> | amount of peanut butter to the sticky stuff, and, with a circular
> | motion with cloth or plastic dish washing pad, I work the peanut
> | butter into the sticky stuff, and its soon gone..
> |
> | If you find sticky stuff on something, and you know that strong
> | solvents, mineral spirits, etc., may mar the surface of that
> | something, try peanut butter.  It's the oil in the pb that does the
> | trick.  Especially good for motor oil/grease that gets on your
> | fingernails, cuticles, etc.
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