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Of course it is snake season In Texas....and everywhere else for that matter....Mike Shot a 4 ft long rattlesnake. He had 8 buttons on his rattle, I collect the rattles. He brought the snake up to the house and set him on an outside table and with no head he was writhing around that table. It looked so funny doing that with no head. It's the nerves that make them move after they are dead. Mike Blew his head off. My BIL has a pair of boots that have kevlar mesh fron the ankle up. BIL works for the railroad Comm. and needs those as he gets out of his trk into tall weeds all the time. I will shoot the snakes when I see them, but Mike see's them sooner than I do.
There's and old story that the family tells about Mikes grandfather......If a plant Like My Tomato plants won't grow....he would take a switch to them and hit them with it (not hard) and then after a short time they would start to grow and produce, well Mike took a switch to one of my plants and did just that about two weeks ago.....Now there are several new buds that will soon be tomatoes. I didn't believe him but I do now. And it's bushy and sprouting new leaves all over the place. Have a great Sunday All Love Oma
May I be more compassionate and loving than yeterday*and be able to spot the idiots in advance
We've been pretty lucky down here so far this year--haven't seen any rattlers, yet.
That practice of abusing certain types of plants to make them produce, does indeed work. It only seems to work on certain types of broadleaf plants, and it appears to be most effective on plants such as tomatoes and cotton.
My dad used to beat up his tomato plants with a burlap bag, or something similar, if they weren't putting on many buds. It always worked.
If you will notice, when you drive past a cotton field, the turn rows, which are used for turning tractors and other equipment around on the ends of the field, always seem to have the most blooms, and later in the season, the most coton bolls, even though the plants are heavily damaged from being driven over by the equipment traffic. Before farm tractors became popular, farmers used to hang burlap bags on their horse-drawn cultivators, in order to thrash the cotton plants a bit, as they cultivated the fields.
Love,
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I guess you are rihgt because the tomaro plants are putting out buds. I Just htought that was so funny to hear when Mike told me that. We always have alot of snakes out here where we are. Later on I don't go out to the barn in sandles anymore. And I take a pistol with me.
How are your prickly pare wounds doing?
Love Oma
May I be more compassionate and loving than yeterday*and be able to spot the idiots in advance
I grew up in Yakima, and went barefoot (or flipflops) all year. Mostly barefoot. I've never been the same person since I moved away and had to wear shoes. Sigh.
In AZ, esp at night in the dark, I don't go barefoot much. Scorpions. There was one on the bathroom floor not too long ago - dropped from the air vent just above the toilet during the night. It only happens once a year, and if you do step on one, it's supposed to be the equivalent of 6-10 bee stings. BUT the last bee sting I got on the bottom of the foot swelled just past my knee. Besides, they creep me out.
The prickly pear hasn't bothered me lately, so I guess I'm ok. I can just barely feel some of the stubs if I rub my finger across the skin, but the skin looks normal, and there's no pain. I suppose they will eventually be absorbed or decomposed, or whatever.
Love,
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Hopefully they will heal Tex....just watch them. And if you need a drawing Poltice...I have a good recipe if needed.
Marsha we have Scoroions here as well. Found one in my clothes closet the other day. I hate them as well. Love Oma
May I be more compassionate and loving than yeterday*and be able to spot the idiots in advance
I will shoot the snakes when I see them, but Mike see's them sooner than I do.
