Sentences with phrase «pack rat»

I recall my friend being a fairly accomplished pack rat and unable to discard her growing children's library of early readers and baby furniture.

It is thought that heavy storms left standing water that was contaminated by pack rats.

My husband is a total pack rat!!!

Chaykin's lovably shlumpy Arthur Lidz is a compulsive pack rat who collects stray balls from schoolyards.

There are odourmasking compression sacks available, but Mountain Equipment Co-op's five - litre Pack Rat sac ($ 8.75) does as good a job keeping the stink in as it does keeping water out.

20 But we're not the only ones making a mess: Pack rats generate mounds made of sticks, plant fragments, dung, and rocks, cemented together with their own urine.

I never buy an assortment of dishes / linens anywhere because I feel like I'll end up pack ratting stuff and I feel like we're always packing and moving.

As the multiple narrative strands move from character to character — a sympathetic insurance assessor (John Ortiz), a curmudgeonly pack rat (Bruce Dern), a widow (Burstyn) picking through the remnants after a house fire — the would - be medley quickly devolves into a series of actorly monologues on a thesis.

News is now trickling out that T - Mobile pack rats are in for a treat this coming Friday.

17 Pack Rat Day — Time to confess the touching, funny, or maybe bizarre things you just couldn't get rid of over the years!

After I left PaineWebber, I quit following American Funds until the other day when I came across some old fund literature I had kept (yeah, I'm a recovering pack rat).

A floor below, Dawn Kasper stars in a homeless pack rat's mobile studio.

«I'm a real pack rat — I never throw anything away.»

a. Aquifer levels rise / fall, Beavers build dams, Rocks fall, streams change course, ground cover burns, pack rats build nests, marmots store food, bears water the tree; there are numerous factors that change ground water availability to any plant.

Or you could be using Dropbox with Pack Rat.

But as a self - confessed pack rat, that's not easy for me.

And we aren't even pack rats!

My friend, Lanny, the proverbial bachelor and tiniest of pack rats, just moved in with his girlfriend after living alone for 14 years.

Unconvinced, when I got off the phone, I went up to the attic and dug out the box that held my old school work (yes, it's true — I'm a total pack rat — especially when it comes to things I've written!).

Santa Fe, New Mexico residents Jamie Hascall and Dr. Betsy Brown were amazed not only to find a pack rat's nest under the hood of their Subaru Forrester, but also by the artful display of chile pods the rodent had collected from a nearby chile ristra that had fallen to the ground.

Santa Fe, New Mexico residents Jamie Hascall and Dr. Betsy Brown were amazed not only to find a pack rat's nest under the hood of their Subaru Forrester, but also by the

I'm more of a Pack Rat than a rat.

I don't know about you, but I'm sort of a pack rat.

Using them also made me feel much better about being a pack rat.

On the other hand, if your child has become a real «pack rat,» you may need to coach him on how to sort and donate unused belongings.

Being a «pack rat» I savored the letter, and still have it.

Confession: I am a pack rat and have kept every paper based memory and scrap of paper.

The landlord, whom Jorgensen affectionately calls a «pack rat,» used recycled sliding glass doors to cordon off the portion of the floor where the actual laboratory work is done; a biotech firm donated equipment.

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community — which takes its name from one of nature's premier accumulators, the pack rat — is one of many research projects based at the Springfield - based museum, which houses extensive collections showcasing the natural, cultural, and artistic history of the state.

But the newly identified virus, known as the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus, is a pack rat: It lugs around a staggering 730,000 base pairs of DNA, including more than 500 gene - like regions, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

However, unlike those of deer mice and pack rats, which also frequent caves, once bat droppings dried, they easily crumbled into dozens of tiny fragments that reflected our lamps» light in a rainbow of colors.

If you have pack rats» nests around your home, you HAVE to poison the rats.

Kissing bugs breed in pack rats» nests.

This is also what makes me a pack rat.

I never truly believed I was a pack rat until my stint in Copenhagen came to an end and I arrived home to so.

I love the clean look of open desks but I fear I'm too much of a pack rat to really get use out of them.

I would keep it, but i'm also a bit of a pack rat.

I think my issues with this skirt will overcome my pack rat tendencies (you know I gots them) this time...

Holly says she is now a pack rat because she never had any place to keep things while she was growing up.

In her late 80s, Sadie is the quintessential grumpy old lady: practically a hermit, a «hoarder» whose unkempt front yard elicits the ire of the county officials who deem her pack rat existence a health hazard.

Pearson could accurately be described as a car guy's pack rat.

Also, I was a Pack Rat close to being a hoarder and, again, I converted.

She was really a pack rat when it came to books.

Dogs that are not confined may show signs of soiling in the house, destructive chewing, or» pack ratting» - gathering up all your personal items and pooling them all in their bed.

Ferrets» tunneling, pack ratting and digging behavior is instinctive.

Who knew that the Pictures generation had its pack rat?