Sentences with word «packrat»

That was my mom's bowl and she was going to get rid of it (my parents don't have an iota of nostalgia / packrat in them... please don't get me started on the 100 year old piano they want to cast off) so I stole it.
The show titled «Packrats Paradise» captures the artists experience in the Graffiti world at the same time capturing his travels across Asia as well as living in the San Francisco...
When he offered the fruits of those labors to laboratory packrats and cactus mice, the rodents ate the mild chilies but avoided the hot ones.
Trapping and handling hundreds of woodrats (also known as packrats), the scientists found that the two species are highly associated with different habitat types, though they may live within meters of each other along the boundary.
The chilies were ignored by desert packrats and cactus mice foraging in adjacent bushes for hackberries, another red fruit that isn't spicy.
(One of the smelliest proxies that they used is pollen preserved in ancient packrat middens.)
Lori: Being a collector / borderline packrat, the piles of issues never bothered me much.
Digital packrats will love that Asus's Transformer Pad, for just $ 20 more than the base price — or for the same price as Apple's iPad 2 with 16 GB — doubles the on - board memory to 32 GB.
Likewise, your Inventory is limited - although gamers can purchase boxes to expand their carrying capacity and some consumables can be stacked, Dark Revenant prohibits players from becoming loot hoarding packrats.
I am such an information junkie and a confessed packrat, I am sad to say.
Although I love him dearly, my hubby comes from a long line of packrats....
The show titled «Packrats Paradise» captures the artists experience in the Graffiti world at the same time capturing his travels across Asia as well as living in the San Francisco Bay area.
Put into cages, five packrats and five mice turned up their noses at chilies, although they readily ate an altered version that wasn't spicy — but after showing up in the feces, the seeds failed to germinate.
To infer past climates, paleoecologist Ken Cole of the U.S. Geological Survey's Colorado Plateau Field Station in Flagstaff, Arizona, and his colleagues have spent 25 years sifting through ancient dung piles, or middens, of packrats.
It's hard to be a packrat / collector.
So look for the new series, and appreciate my packrat tendencies that I still have the records for these matters.
It's always been somewhat frustrating to me as one thing I've been good at is squeezing as much as I can while still making it work — possibly due to how much of a packrat I am in real life.
Packrats and Possum Trot: Artists and Collectors of the Desert A closer look at the collection habits of humans and other species suggest that we are all purveyors and taxonomists of discarded refuse, inorganic or otherwise.
But the packrats at the Armory paled in comparison with the personalities pouring into the salon - like kitchen of Gavin Brown's house in Harlem that night, where he was celebrating star turns by Laura Owens, Bjarne Melgaard, Uri Aran, and Jennifer Bornstein in the current Whitney Biennial.
And while you're at it, spend another $ 100 - $ 150 or so and sign up for Dropbox with the packrat option, or another file synching service.
For instance, the packing calculator estimates the number of boxes and packing materials that users will need for their move, based upon the number of years that they've lived in the house, their packrat tendencies, and the size of their home.
I'm sure he could trace the packrat - edness through centuries.....
My daughter is a packrat, I mean collector, and her dresser gets full of her precious finds.
I seem to be a packrat LOL and I always wonder..
(Actually this packrat still has a storage shed full of boxes to go through, but they are not in the house!)
That is the packrat in me!!!
I used to be a packrat and then I started having to move quite often.
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