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janemarierose
Utica, NY
(Zone 4b)
June 20, 2009
03:50 PM Post #6715838
| I have tried everything natural to get rid of them. Beer in the bowl at night,,,come to find out that my basset hound eeyore was have nightly cocktails...then sleeping it off during the day!
I read somewhere copper pennies... empty my penny bank to put around the flower..Lined them all up nice nice.Still have slug...
I read chicken gritwould work...couldn't find it local so i ordered 60 pounds online...i know i have alittle OCD going on here over the slugs but they are all over and eat so much!! anyways since the grit is made from oyster shells i thought this would work. I sprinkled over one bed that was getting hit the hardest ...I went and found a few large juice slug to watch them meet their maker...they slither across no problem..
HELP!!!
thanks,
jane |
dp72
Woodway, TX
(Zone 8a)
June 20, 2009
03:55 PM Post #6715850
| It's time for a chemical snail bait. Ask at an independent nursery center, not a chain. They will be more likely to know what will work for you.
Copper pennies?! |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
June 20, 2009
04:01 PM Post #6715871
| Sluggo or other products with iron phosphate as the active ought to do the trick. I'd stay away from the slug products with metaldehyde as the active since they are extremely toxic to pets and from the beer story it sounds like your dog has ready access to the areas where you'd be using it. |
vanessaw315
Cazenovia, NY
June 21, 2009
10:17 PM Post #6721050
| How about coffee grounds or using salt?? I also heard cornmeal works, they cannot dijest it. Does this sound right? |
dp72
Woodway, TX
(Zone 8a)
June 21, 2009
11:01 PM Post #6721189
| I doubt they eat things they can't digest. Kitchen remedies for all kinds of problems people face work now and then. Many of them are useless. If you have ever poured salt on a slug, you know that it kills it, but if you pour salt around in your beds, they will just avoid crawling over it, and too much salt will do harm to your plants.
The beer solution has its advocates. I don't know many people that are going to actually do that.
I still think your answers lies in the wonderful world of chemistry. |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
June 22, 2009
08:05 AM Post #6722007
| Sluggo works for me. |
wormfood
Lecanto, FL
(Zone 9a)
June 22, 2009
09:56 AM Post #6722460
| Ya, I thought of the copper penny deal, but pennies aren't copper. |
dp72
Woodway, TX
(Zone 8a)
June 22, 2009
11:10 AM Post #6722769
| And if pennies WERE still copper? |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
June 22, 2009
11:45 AM Post #6722963
| Bands of copper are said to repel slugs but the type I've seen sold are for putting around pots to keep the slugs from crawling up the outside of the pot. IF the plant happened to be a hosta with long leaves that touched the ground the slug would take the easy way up anyhow. |
dp72
Woodway, TX
(Zone 8a)
June 22, 2009
12:50 PM Post #6723263
| What is the scientific explanation of how these copper bands repel slugs? Copper bracelets were the fad for arthritis and other ailments thirty years ago, but the fad passed quickly because the New Age notion was nonsense and did not affect arthritis or any other health problem one way or the other. |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
June 22, 2009
01:47 PM Post #6723535
| Here's the ad for it. I've never tried it. 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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raylin48
Dunnellon, FL
June 22, 2009
03:45 PM Post #6724102
| Can someone tell me more about the damp coffee filters and baggie method to do the bigger seeds like morning glorys? Like how wet, how long? Do I seal it up? put it outside where its hot? I read about this,and would like more details. Anyone do this??? Thanks, raylin
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
June 22, 2009
10:11 PM Post #6725781
| Add beer in a saucer or a container that the big momma snail's can NOT climb out of along with Slugo!
Slug's and Snail's love beer and they get their last "party time" after drinking too much of it! Meanwhile Sluggo will take care of the rest.
Rachel
I just have to add for fun... while in the past when my container's were not viable enough for the big mamma's...A salt shacker will do them in! Make's for good "after dark" entertainment;-)
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wormfood
Lecanto, FL
(Zone 9a)
June 23, 2009
05:25 PM Post #6728654
| That's pretty gross. I'm gonna start a refuge for snails. Snails have rights, too.
Did you know that people eat them? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
June 23, 2009
06:28 PM Post #6728894
| S L U G G O! I swear by it!
Got me a very "helpful" puppy and a 500 pound 14 yr-old doberman ridgeback that are just in love with my plants (laying on them/peeing on them/eating them) and in love with the mulch and the dirt (sniff here and there and eat the occasional edible(?) bugs. yes they're just weird.) I've been using Sluggo since the beginning of spring and the dogs are fine :). The slugs- well, they went hasta la vista baby! :). I thought it wasn't working because I still saw about 5 snailshells on one of my trees but come to find out, they were empty and just stuck there by the decomposing carcasses of my nemeses! Oh yeah! Score for the noobie! They eat the sluggo which makes them stop feeding until they go caput! (hmm, i smell a diet pill idea in there somewhere:) kidding!)
I am about 99.9999% (disclaimer:) slimer-free and my plants are happy! (Now as for the p-u-p-p-y and the d-o-g... ...;-) |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
June 23, 2009
06:30 PM Post #6728902
| (btw, our ridgeback isn't really 500 pounds- she just looks and moves that way! :)) |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
June 23, 2009
09:32 PM Post #6729660
| Ha, wormfood, I do not like being cruel! My plant's take priority over snails/slug's.
Rachel |
wormfood
Lecanto, FL
(Zone 9a)
June 26, 2009
07:54 PM Post #6743101
| only kidding, I hate snails. I have a shade house, lots of water and I've done the salt thing myself only never saw it written down in front of me. I've had snails go up the side of the fish tank, into the water, eat the plants and then leave. Leaving a trail of slime. yuck. |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
June 26, 2009
08:36 PM Post #6743308
| Not sure what sluggo is but be careful with anything in pellet form as birds may eat them. I have watched it in my yard. Ugh! Poor birdy! Also have tried the copper tape, seemed to work but that was a raised bed, easier to layout.
Maybe you could dog proof your beer garden? The midnight runs and slabs of wood work as well if you don't mind getting rid of them by hand. But don't ever touch them bare handed. I made that mistake one day. "How bad can it be? I'll just wash my hands when I'm done." Hahahahaha! I had to use a metal scrubber and it practically took my skin off. I went back to clippers after that. Then they just become compost. Plus there's some twisted satisfaction in it & it's a quick death...they don't know what hit them. Salt is an awful thing to watch, even if it's a slug. But wormfood, beer isn't cruel, your giving them a party! |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
June 29, 2009
01:04 AM Post #6752285
| I found this very helpful info. on slug bait & I immediately thought of this thread. Especially because it mentions Sluggo LOL!
Here it is:
http://www.paghat.com/slugcontrol.html |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
June 29, 2009
11:14 AM Post #6753656
| Cool article ican! I really liked this quote: "Speak not of grief, young stranger, or cold snails will slime the rose to night."
-John Keats
(1795-1821)
Methinks it should be on garden stones or somethin! :) |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
June 29, 2009
11:51 AM Post #6753820
| I agree Chezca and thank's for the link Icanfindroom.
Rachel |
WonderMess
London, ON
(Zone 6a)
June 30, 2009
06:00 AM Post #6757552
| I used to have a gianormous problem with snails and slugs. Tried the beer traps and was heartbroken to find bumble bees & other good guys more often than any bad guys. Didn't want to use any poisons or whatever. Finally found two things I could do to take control:
#1 - I put baking soda into an old salt shaker and went around sprinkling it on them (always rinse the area well after about 5 to 10 minutes, otherwise it can burn the plants)
#2 - I used a jar with 1 part bleach + 2 parts water and went around dropping them in (it is the only thing that seems to kill them instantly - I can't stand seeing anything suffer)
- I didn't just hunt them at night either. I check under rocks, and anything else they might be hiding in, and deal with them there. In fact, I think it was the day hunting that really made the most difference. |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
July 01, 2009
12:26 AM Post #6762063
| I like the bleach idea. I tried salt once, I felt really really bad afterwards & ended up snipping it rather than watch that. I still like the snipper method too. I'm pretty sure that's instant and maybe a critter will get to eat it or it'll add to my soil. ;) |
RedwoodAnnie
(Zone 9b)
July 02, 2009
12:21 AM Post #6766737
| I have banana slugs. They are about 3" long or more. I hate them, but they are part of the natural forest I'm in. So I go out in the morning and gently get them on my little hand shovel and fling them on the hillside away from my garden. If it's not the deer, it's the banana slugs. Deer eat a lot of plants, but so do the slugs. And if a plant is deer proof it can be a slug favorite. I can't grow marigolds for this reason...it sucks. But beer in a dish does work. When I do that, I always get a couple of them. |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
July 03, 2009
06:38 PM Post #6774005
| My answer to the problem, get chickens...
A chicken will eat almost anything that doesn't eat it first. So, yes, they will eat slugs. Or, they may just “shred” them by their “pecking and scratching” action, thus killing them.
Now I'm not going to guarantee that they won't eat your plants too ;-) |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 03, 2009
06:58 PM Post #6774080
| Here's another slug thread but beware - there is a photo of the Mission Impossible slug:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=6745158 |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
July 04, 2009
04:33 PM Post #6777727
| Oh ya, that's a MI slug alright! I can hear the music now... |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 04, 2009
10:06 PM Post #6778864
| get epson salt, sea salt or any other corse salt. I dont believe in chemicals |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
July 04, 2009
10:19 PM Post #6778897
| What and KILL the Mission Impossible slug???? |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 04, 2009
10:23 PM Post #6778904
| well if you dont want to kill them you could catch them and let them go at a park or in someones else's garden |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 04, 2009
10:28 PM Post #6778913
| or escargot, anybody? :) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 04, 2009
10:31 PM Post #6778923
| escargot is snails hummmm cargot must be slugs |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 04, 2009
10:46 PM Post #6778957
| oopsie! (but they do have the same, shall we say, "consistency":)... Slugs are just "meatier" eh? (j/k!)
Anyhoo, slugs, wether we want em or not, shall keep on poppin up as long as there are plants... I say, to each his/her own on the method of "offing" or "relocating" these slimy little devils... If you get squeamish with the salt/chemical method, just say a little prayer for the little darlins and imagine them growin wings and slimin their way to slug-heaven! :) |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
July 05, 2009
12:03 AM Post #6779168
| Ah but you did check out the pic right? Of the amazing hanging banana slug? I off them as well but that guy/gal deserves props.
EEEEEEEEWWWWW!!!!!!! Cargo...consistency...MEATIER...man am I glad I already had dinner! |
WonderMess
London, ON
(Zone 6a)
July 05, 2009
07:25 AM Post #6779585
| OKAY ... EVERYBODY NOW! ... (to the tune of "Raindrops keep fallin' on my head")
Banana slugs keep ploppin on my head ... eeewwwwwww .. gack!
:) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 05, 2009
09:38 AM Post #6779820
| I'm not the best person to ask with this one. I've only seen spiders, worms and pincher bugs in my garden. but I know salt will kill slugs and I do sprinkles some around the plants every other month |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 05, 2009
03:41 PM Post #6781124
| Hmmm... The "bananner" slug's actually a mascot here in CA... (go figure!:) But it IS california... nothin's weird here anymore :)...
Hey, our puppy eats slugs... Seriously! He plays with them first- watchin them crawl then swatting them backwards then watching them crawl forward again before he just looks at them intensely then... SHHLURRRRRRP! :) Seen him do it quite a number of times- grosses me out everytime! Maybe you guys can train your puppies/dogs to do just that? :)
Oh and I HAD snails too, until they said hello to sluggo :). |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
July 05, 2009
11:26 PM Post #6782948
| Ooooooh that is so nasty! I have thrown slugs over the fence with bear fingers ONCE, after I had to use a metal scrubber to get the slime off I never did it again. Wonder what your dog likes so much about them. I grew up in WA state & if you've been there, you know slugs are more than just a mascot. Everything slugs, magnets, t-shirts, umbrellas, whatever...slugs, slugs, slugs. However even in the Pike Place Market you can't find them for sale to eat. :) |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 06, 2009
12:20 AM Post #6783099
| Sluggo, couple times a year. Won't hurt anything but the slugs and snails. Easy but $$$$$$$! |
WENDYandWILL
Bear, DE
July 06, 2009
08:33 AM Post #6783817
| We had a toad take up residence in one of our gardens... and he was certainly doing his part to take care of the slugs. Unfortunately they were coming faster than he could keep up with... so we simply started sprinkling salt in about a foot wide path around the garden. We've never had to worry about clean-up either... the birds usually have that part handled before we take the dogs for their first morning outing!
Hope this helps!
Blessings & 73!!!
Wendy & Will, |
jkstone
Cordova, TN
July 06, 2009
07:52 PM Post #6786430
| I have a farmer friend who I recently asked how he keeps slugs away from his garden. He suggested Lime. I haven't tried it though, I have azaleas and they are acid loving plants, so I didn't think Lime would be a good idea. |
duck_toller
Middleton, WI
(Zone 4b)
July 06, 2009
09:08 PM Post #6786746
| I think you should take up fishing. I believe bass are partial to slugs. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 06, 2009
10:36 PM Post #6787238
| I'm not believing this thread. Are you guys really that worried about a slug's feelings. Get a block of wood and a hammer and watch them go splat. Seriously, Beer works. I always used tuna cans and put them under the wifes flowers. Never caught a bee or anything but snails and slugs. They crawl in and drown. Have had them so full the top ones couldn't get down to the beer. Had a regular trap line, ran it every morning and evening. Took a gallon bucket and just dumped the beer slugs and all in it. Went through a suitcase of beer a week. You can also take any type of citrus fruit and cut it in half and turn them upside down under you plants. Next mornig slugs will be all under it. I've even heard of one person who pounded used glass jars into powder and scattered it under their plants. Slug crawls across it and cuts it's little tum-tum and dies. |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 07, 2009
06:22 AM Post #6788049
| I don't worry about slug's feelings any more than they could possibly worry about the damage they do to my plants.
The idea of ground glass is fine but what about the hands of the gardeners as we do spring and fall clean up? |
wormfood
Lecanto, FL
(Zone 9a)
July 07, 2009
09:38 AM Post #6788447
| I saw an earwig eat an ant once, so earwigs (mentioned in the DG article) are a plus in my book.
and did anyone mention 7-dust?
Also, I had plastic over my shadehouse for the winter and I laid it out to try to save it for next winter. The next morning there were numerous snails underneath it sucked up to the plastic. Turned it over and got the salt. I did it a couple of nights and haven't seen any for two years. They are just coming back this year so I think I'll do it again. |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 07, 2009
11:29 AM Post #6788887
| I'm squeamish when it comes to killing things. Sluggo is nice and discrete. put it down, then you find empty shells. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 07, 2009
11:32 AM Post #6788900
| Jim41, I'm with you! 'Cept for the "splatting" part- too AKKKKK! I can't even stand looking at these slimy buggers much less picking them up and pounding on them until they're the consistency of snot or jello! AKKKKKK!!!! Just thinkin about that gives me the heebiejeebies! And the slime trail they leave behind? Reminds me of when one accidentally sneezes and there's no tissue/napkin at hand! AKKKKK!!!!!
Hey this thread is hella fun tho! :) |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 07, 2009
11:44 AM Post #6788946
| When my little brother was a baby he tried too eat a giant snail! He only got one or two crunches on it before my mom scooped it out of his mouth. it was 20 years ago but i'll never forget all that slime and drool. Talk about AAAAAK! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 07, 2009
11:39 PM Post #6791733
| I love you guys!!! Come to my house and drink some good Dark Roast Community coffee with me and let's talk this thread out. I would love to be able to see the expressions on your faces. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 07, 2009
11:47 PM Post #6791762
| I am pretty sure I would enjoy your invitation Jim41! Do you have the good Folger's brew ready;-)
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 08, 2009
12:00 AM Post #6791801
| Well, I could go out and buy a little but personally never drink it. Ever since I found out Procto Gambel make it, it seems to me like I can taste soap. Maybe just the power of suggestion? We in Louisiana are partial to our state coffee, Community. Try it and you'll never go back. When we visited our daughter in Ohio, we had a car full of the stuff for her neighbors. Come to think of it they all forgot to pay me for the coffee. |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
July 08, 2009
12:32 AM Post #6791868
| P&G sold Folgers to Smuckers, so you don't have to worry about soapy taste...maybe a little jelly though! |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 08, 2009
07:41 AM Post #6792382
| Just a thought; maby if you put a small bird feeder in the garden the birds will see the slugs and eat them |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 08, 2009
11:42 AM Post #6793198
| ecrane3 - If I could get the lady to make some cat-head biscuits to go with that jelly tasting coffee it would be ok. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 08, 2009
11:49 AM Post #6793229
| Oh geez... I feel bad now... Has anybody noticed that janemarierose has left the "building"? I hope we didn't gross her out! (all in good gardening fun tho!)
Ok, enough with the gross-fest and let's talk serious.
beer, batter+slugs+hot oil = ??? (anybody?!?) J/K!
(sorry! we just had shrimp tempura last night and it hella reminded me of this thread!) :) :) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 08, 2009
03:51 PM Post #6794200
| pirl - The way I understan it the glass has to be the consistence of powder. Mixs with the soil and you don't know its there. Remeber, I have never tried this. Someone just told me about it. Presonally, I am not patient enough to sit and pound glass to powder. |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 08, 2009
03:54 PM Post #6794216
| Sure, you don't have 5' of snow in winter with nothing to do! Actually we have very little snow but the idea of the ground glass did concern me. Thanks for making it clear. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 08, 2009
04:06 PM Post #6794289
| Just Red-Neck curtsy, maam. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 08, 2009
05:24 PM Post #6794626
| theres tons of glass shards in my yard and snow in the winter |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 08, 2009
10:55 PM Post #6796074
| Jim41, your community coffee sound's welcoming along with a "cat-head" biscuit;-) Good to know that some still use the term (Cathead biscuit)
Thank's
Rachel
|
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 08, 2009
11:01 PM Post #6796112
| Your welcome RachelLF. Nothing better than cat-heads and tomatoe gravy. Do ya'll eat mater gravy in Virginia? |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 08, 2009
11:12 PM Post #6796165
| I have to admit Jim41, it 's been year's since I had that "type" of gravy but fried green Tomatoe's along with yellow squash are a priority here at the moment;-) Make's for a tremendous meal.
Rachel
|
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 09, 2009
07:40 AM Post #6796857
| Okay, time to let some Yankees in on your secrets...what are cat heads (and don't tell me they're really cat heads!). |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 09, 2009
07:48 AM Post #6796888
| ok I've been reading this thread & laughing for a week now...and also making faces at the thought of pounding a slug with a brick...eeew...I run when I see WORMS never mind slugs...(yes it takes me forever to weed, because I'm so squeamish) when I saw baby slugs in my garden I ran for the salt, it was emergency situation as they were marching toward my Harry Lauder walking stick...but I need to know WHAT are cat head biscuits? How do you make tomato gravy? I love biscuits & gravy and these sound like something I need to know about :)
Chezca I worked in a restaurant where we made beer battered anchovies maybe the big slugs would taste like those, those were pretty good ;) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 09, 2009
10:25 AM Post #6797388
| Cat-Head Bisquits are the kind with a top and bottom and no middle. Ummm good. Email jimgoodman1@hotmail.com and I'll email you my wifes "World Famous Tomatoe Gravy" recipe. Well maybe not world famous but a lot of folks in Louisiana, Ohio and New York like it. |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 09, 2009
10:35 AM Post #6797428
| Sounds good! I'll Email you, Jim. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 09, 2009
10:44 AM Post #6797465
| pirl I'll send you my wife's Green Tomatoe Pie recipe if you want it. Several on another thread have asked for it and already have it in a word file. Something different and pretty neat. |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 09, 2009
10:54 AM Post #6797504
| Now I have a story for you:
Long ago I made a green tomato pie (called "Mock Apple Pie" according to the recipe) while I was still married to my ex husband. He ate a piece and commented on how good it was. I told him it was MOCK apple pie and he said, "I don't care what kind of apples they are - it's good". |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 09, 2009
11:13 AM Post #6797587
| Jim41, did you write that article about the mater garvy and cat heads? I read that. Made my salivary glands water :) (cat heads are ginormous biscuits as big as a "cat's head", hence the name. Right?)
btw, there was an episode of "Dirty Jobs" where Mike Rowe ate deep-fried battered leeches... I'm assuming it don't "feel" any different from slugs? :)
Pirl- hilarious! :) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 09, 2009
11:54 AM Post #6797769
| Chezca - You are right. My preference is big but not to thick. Like um crusty. To do a pun on Will Rogers, " I never met a bisquit I didn't like." Concerning the dee fried leeches, I am like Mikey of commercial fame, I'll eat anything (once) but I think I'll draw a line on the leeches. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 09, 2009
04:38 PM Post #6798859
| When I was a kid we had an area behind our yard that had leeches (we lived 4 miles outside of Boston...I don't think of leeches as a city thing, but there you go) and I remember my father pulling them off us kids...eeeew I could never eat one..they stretch out & out when you pull them...and years ago I worked in the intensive care unit (big trauma hospital) and we used medical leeches on a female patient...I would literally pray on my way to work "please don't let me get that patient, please don't let me get that patient.." At least the anchovies weren't moving when we deep fried 'em lol
Jim I emailed you for that recipe, thank you in advance...and I must ask, if a biscuit has a top and a bottom but no middle, is it really 2 biscuits because they aren't attached... *grin* |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 09, 2009
06:14 PM Post #6799192
| lol 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
|
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 09, 2009
06:23 PM Post #6799226
| How in heaven's name, did we end up talking about slugs one minute then biscuits n gravy the next?!? :-)
I swear to you, this thread has a life of its own!
Now I've eaten some quite exotic fares... Fried pig intestines with a vinegar/pepper/onion sauce, anybody?!? Really good too! (depends on the cook of course! but i don wanna see it before they cook it btw!) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 09, 2009
07:04 PM Post #6799323
| as long as you dont eat my kitty |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 09, 2009
07:14 PM Post #6799354
| ROTFLOL! ^-^ I don eat kitties! Too hairy!
|
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 09, 2009
07:44 PM Post #6799469
| How about this kitty?? 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
|
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 09, 2009
08:19 PM Post #6799612
| not enough meat ;) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 09, 2009
09:00 PM Post #6799782
| poor naked kitty, it must be cold |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 09, 2009
10:07 PM Post #6800033
| this is awesome, you guys crack me up. I want to visit the south and get some catheads and 'mater gravy. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 09, 2009
10:14 PM Post #6800071
| Those pig intestines you ate, we call chittlins. Were your creek slung or stump whopped. Bet most of you have never heard that before. On exotic eating, have you ever tried mountain oysters. Ummm, Ummm. |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 09, 2009
10:16 PM Post #6800077
| sweetbreads? |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 09, 2009
10:24 PM Post #6800099
| Sweetbreads are brains. Mountain oysters come a lot lower part of the anatomy or a bull or boar.
Ever eaten lites, liver, heart and onions. Not bad at all. Bet it beats deep fried leeches. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 09, 2009
11:30 PM Post #6800371
| yikes the furthest I've ventured is frog legs...and they taste like chicken! there's not enough meat on them to bother, though. here we call the intestines tripe...I've never eaten it. boiled brains are called head cheese here.
Chezka I love Dirty Jobs, have you ever seen the one with the ostrich? It's hysterical. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 10, 2009
12:53 AM Post #6800572
| That... hairless... cat... is just wrong! :-) (but i betcha it batters good! AKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!)
Ok, your moysters (mountain oysters), they've got nothin with what my bros HAD to partake in while in Saudi Arabia... They dared them to eat FRESH (meaning RAW) thinly sliced goat "oysters" with fresh maters and cheese... Said they were a delicacy... AKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needless to say, they didn't keep it down- can't blame 'em.
Goodness, this thread is getting funnier and funnier by the post! |
feegreen
southend on sea
United Kingdom
July 10, 2009
07:33 AM Post #6801072
| Try dried crushed egg shells or coarse grit around the plant,they cant crawl over it.Coffee grounds also wrk but some plants dont like that..it is a constant war!! |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 10, 2009
08:38 AM Post #6801225
| I grind eggshells up mix them with used coffee grounds and tea bags. Of corse you want to clean the eggshells well. I put this mixture in my flower boxes. I dont know why, I have always seen in done by bigtime gardeners growing up |
dp72
Woodway, TX
(Zone 8a)
July 10, 2009
08:43 AM Post #6801237
| catz. if salts aren't chemical, what are they? |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 10, 2009
09:39 AM Post #6801427
| well I guess it is a chemical, but is more natural than raid |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 10, 2009
11:04 AM Post #6801870
| Salt is a mineral. So yes- it is a naturally occuring element. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 10, 2009
05:15 PM Post #6803445
| Lynnie6868 - Hog intestines we call chittlins or more properly chitterlings; Beef intestines we call tripe. It is all still just guts. Head Cheese we call Hog head cheese and is made from the whole head. Every thing is ground up and mixed together with spices and put in a mold and pressed. Don't know the details. Never liked it. My wife loves it. Married her anyway. Take the bad with the good. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 10, 2009
05:46 PM Post #6803596
| Mike Rowe's perfect for that show! The Ostrich was funny but the geoduck was wayyy funnier- i mean lol-pee-in-your-pants hilarious! :-)
Jim, I thought "tripe" is like the weird lining/part of the cow's stomach? Has anybody tried grilled chickenfeet? mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
As for the slugs, still SLUGGO. (I have to honor this thread's subject now and again duh...) :-) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 10, 2009
06:05 PM Post #6803645
| Chezca, never grilled them but when I was a kid and we killed chickens off the yard, my aunt would scald them and pull the yellow skin off and boil them with salt and pepper and butter. That was my uncles favorite part of the chicken. Surprising how much meat is on them. When you were though eating them then you picked your teeth with the toe nails. (just joking)
Hey gang is this new barn electric ad running you crazy. Pulled up a photo and couldn't look at it for the dog gone thing dropping down and covering it up. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 10, 2009
06:23 PM Post #6803707
| I don't get the pop-over ad... Check your pop-up blocker settings (it should do the trick).
I grew up in one of em killin-chickins-the-backyard/guttin-yar-own-fish for dinner household. Didn't faze me much. Some of the most memorable times I remember is when our parents/aunts/uncles/gramps & grams do these ritualistic traditions way back when... Yea... The chickins were cute but they tasted way better when fried! :-)
I don't know why slugs gross me out... go figure..! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 10, 2009
07:47 PM Post #6804025
| I grew up in a very proper Boston environment, all food was neatly packaged from the grocery store. The only thing I ever tasted fresh was seafood , lobster & clams...we would dig clams right on the beach, throw them in our little plastic pails & take them home & steam them...you can't do that now, half the areas are polluted and the fishermen get dibs on clammin' the good areas. Everybody has to work & make money, right?
I still hate creepy crawlies though...bugs gross me out. I could NEVER I mean NEVER eat headcheese...that is one brave woman you married, Jim!
I have pop up blocker & the mosquito ad drove me crazy anyway! Like mosquitoes aren't annoying enough!
Chezca I did see the geoduck episode, that was very funny! And I can't even drink goats milk, or eat goat cheese, never mind goat oysters!
I put salt on my slugs...have not seen any since..(in deference to the original thread). |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 10, 2009
08:14 PM Post #6804169
| I'm with you lynnie!!! geze jim it sounds like you eat fear factor meals |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 10, 2009
11:14 PM Post #6804903
| Ooh that mosquito ad was horrid. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 10, 2009
11:17 PM Post #6804912
| I missed that 1 but this electric add is bugging me |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 10, 2009
11:21 PM Post #6804928
| yeah me too, i wonder if we gave some feedback if it would matter? |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 10, 2009
11:26 PM Post #6804942
| not sure but I;m doing to go to bed. I think I'm going to play in the dirt tomorow |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 11, 2009
12:45 AM Post #6805146
| Hey iluvcats, what is fear factor food? I was raised on a farm where we raised everything we ate both vegetables and meat. Killed our own chickens, hogs and beef. Have't cared for chicken since we started buying them at the store. Kids had a 4-H broiler project and since I had to build a brooder anyway, raised a bunch or Rhode Island Red straight run biddies. Ate the roosters and gave the pullets to my Dad. (Remind me to tell you about his trained chickens.) Beef you buy in the store doesn't taste anything like what we raised. Only thing close is Pure Angus beef. Hog killing was on the first really frosty day we had. It was an all day and into the night job. Never killed less than 10 or 12 at a time. Cut up our own meat and smoked it. Since my cousin and I were the youngest boys we were delegated to cranking the sausage mill. Still got a heck of a right arm from turning that thing. We would take the liver, lites (lungs) and hearts and the women would chop them up together and start a stew. That and hot bisquits was the food for the day. Only thing we bought to eat was flour, sugar, corn meal, and coffee. Sometimes we even ground our own meal. I came along to late to see it but Grandpa used to raise sugar cane and make his own syrup. We never had much money but we sure did eat good. I personally didn't know we were poor until the Feds started to publish the poverty level after I was married. Tell you something else we still had time to sit on the porch (gallery as Pa called it) and visit with the neighbors. Not many juvinile delinquents either. Hard to be delinquent after hoeing or picking cotton all day. We knew where the church was and we learned to say "yes maam and no sir and please and thank you." Hey, Jim get off the soap box. Sorry gang. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 11, 2009
10:11 AM Post #6806006
| fear factor is a tv show where the eat bugs, rotten eggs, eyes and other grose stuff |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 11, 2009
12:59 PM Post #6806650
| Thanks for the reply. Seldom watch tv. Rather spend my time helping to make this the longest thread in the history of Dave's gardening. Have a great week end. |
wintergardener
Valatie, NY
(Zone 5a)
July 12, 2009
10:54 AM Post #6809854
| Does anyone know where I can buy Sluggo in upstate New York? My local Agway does not carry it. I'm in Columbia County. Thanks!!! |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 12, 2009
01:54 PM Post #6810476
| walmart maby |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 12, 2009
02:16 PM Post #6810555
| on Fear factor I think they get paid to eat the stuff, don't they? I still couldn't do it though. I can't even watch others eat it. |
wintergardener
Valatie, NY
(Zone 5a)
July 12, 2009
02:42 PM Post #6810629
| I think the audience who watches Fear Factor should get paid.
My local Walmart doesn't carry Sluggo. Guess its on to Gardener's Supply.com. |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 12, 2009
03:01 PM Post #6810713
| Try Ortho's Bug Geta Plus - big green container. It kills earwigs as well. Might be easier to find. Try Home Depot, Wal Mart, Agway. You might want to call first to avoid wasting time, gas, etc. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 12, 2009
03:11 PM Post #6810748
| I have an earwig problem. How much dose that ortho's stuff usually sell for? |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 12, 2009
07:00 PM Post #6811521
| I have hundreds of these little guys in my garden AND they eat among other things slug and snail eggs!
Not sure of the species but I'm sure somebody on DG will.
pajonica 
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 12, 2009
07:31 PM Post #6811626
| can they survive a New England winter? if so, I'll take a dozen lol |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 12, 2009
07:32 PM Post #6811632
| I believe that is an american anole. tiny lizard, they dont get more than 6 inches. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 12, 2009
07:34 PM Post #6811646
| lol. They can only survive new england weather if you keep them in a tank with heating lamps. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 12, 2009
07:54 PM Post #6811702
| Hey Gang apparently someone from Dave's reads these threads. The Barn's Electric ad is gone and in its place is an ad for sluggo. The snail bait some of you guys have been talking about.
I don't have any lizards in my garden but do have toad frogs. Around the house, where all of Jo's pot plants are we have hundreds of salamander lizards. Some of those rascals are six or eight inchs long and as big around as a half dollar. They eat a ton of bugs and such. Took me forever to talk my wife in to not wacking them. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 12, 2009
07:55 PM Post #6811705
| sigh...I need to move to a warmer zone...on top of not being able to keep little lizards around, I always want plants that I can't have. I have absolute live oak envy...I swear I want one of those live oaks so bad! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 12, 2009
08:04 PM Post #6811751
| oh yeah, I believe a lovely person named Terry took care of that, must be an admin. It's nice to not have to play Beat the Dropdown.
I once had a tree frog stuck to my front door during a rainstorm...don't know how he got there, or where he came from, but he stayed on the glass door till the storm passed. Mind you, I live in a veritable hayfield, no water for blocks...except the neighbor's pool...I hope he ate his share of bugs while he was out there...(the frog not the neighbor, I don't like that Fear Factor stuff).
Maybe one of you guys knows the answer to this...there are dead japanese beetles under my potted rhamnus fine line shrubs (buckthorn)...are these shrubs poisonous to jb's? |
1CatMom
McHenry, MS
(Zone 8b)
July 12, 2009
08:14 PM Post #6811797
| *waves*
I'm new here at Dave's Garden and this was the first thread I have read in the forums. LOL It has been hilarious!
I look forward to getting to know y'all better and getting some help with my gardening since I'm a relative noobie. :-) |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 12, 2009
08:16 PM Post #6811805
| welcome 1cat! |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 12, 2009
08:21 PM Post #6811826
| I think my lizard is a skink of some kind measures up to 8" tip to tail, survives winter here ok. min temp
around -2c
pajonica |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 12, 2009
08:57 PM Post #6811964
| HEY!! I'm a crazy cat person to!!
As for the add swap. Some companys have way to much time on there hands.
Pajonica your probally right about the lizard. The anole is native to south america and states that border
Did I forget anything???
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 12, 2009
10:03 PM Post #6812216
| We don't have a lot of ice storms but if you could see a live oak after an ice storm you might change your mind. Course most live oaks are found in central to southern Louisana. I'm way up here in northeast La.
Did you know that the big salamander lizards make good pets. Friend caught one at work, carried it home to show the kids. They fell in love with it and kept it for a house pet. They could call the darn thing and it would come running. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 12, 2009
10:08 PM Post #6812240
| ugh! I have to stop doing yardwork barefoot! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 12, 2009
10:23 PM Post #6812300
| I've got to share this with someone and since you are my favorite people and you'll talk about anything, here goes---- I had a surprise plant to come up where I moved the compost to fill my raised beds. One single little plant. I looked at it and left it alone. I thought it was a cuke since I'd thrown some over large ones on top of the pile last year. As it began to grow and spread, I decided it was a cantalope, for the same reasons as above. On day my wife was out there and said, "Oh goody a watermelon." It had one melon on it that already was to big to be a cantelope. I'd had thrown my flop of a watermelon crop on the pile last year so I agreed with her. Tonight after church she said let's go see if the watermelon is ripe. The kind I tried to raise last year was an ice box melon so I said ok. The vine of this one single plant now covers a space about 20 ft. square. I worked my way out there trying not to step on the vines (I still remember how from my old watermelon swiping days in my wild and wooly youth). When I turned back the vines low and behold the biggest cantalope I have ever seen. That joker is as big as a basketball already and still green as a goard. The cantalopes I raise are called ambrosia and last year they got a decent size but this thing is a monster. Not only that but it is wrapped up with melons bigger than the average cantalope now. Don't know it that joker will ever get ripe but it is something to see. Guess the compost is the reason. Thanks for letting me share. I've been about to bust. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 13, 2009
06:22 AM Post #6813119
| oh yum I love cantaoupe...I guess they like your compost, huh? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 13, 2009
11:11 AM Post #6813931
| hey OSH (orchard supply hardware) carry SLUGGO. I got my 4 lb sluggo for $19.+ during one of their sale promos... BUT don know if OSH is just here in cali :-) Maybe I should start "dealing" sluggo for DGers? :-) (j/k!) I could sell it in little "baggies"...hehehehe...
Jim41, post a goshdarn picture of that ginormous cantaloupe, okilydokily? and let us salivate over what we do not have growing in our compost heaps! :-) (I do have bindweed and cottonweed grrowing in mine... I wonder if that's something I should brag about?... hmmm...) :-) |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 13, 2009
11:46 AM Post #6814086
| BY THE WAY! People! I guess OUR thread (and I use the term loosely bec it's really janemarierose's brainchild) is soooo popular that SLUGGO has taken notice? :-) Shouldn't we get paid for our smart promotion? :) By say, sending us each a 4 pound jar of the stuff?!? Whaddya say, Sluggo? Eh? |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 13, 2009
12:33 PM Post #6814314
| Jim41, you just have to share a pic of that huge cantalope;-)
Rachel
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 13, 2009
01:05 PM Post #6814450
| Well gang, I'll take the picture but me and the net aren't best of friends. To old and dumb I guess but will try. Had miniture version of the giant in the compost. umm good. If you have never planted Ambrosia cantelope you need to try it. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 13, 2009
07:59 PM Post #6816038
| Jim don't make us come down there... |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 13, 2009
08:01 PM Post #6816052
| In october my sister and I smashed some pumpkins behind the shead. I wonder if they will sprout 
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 13, 2009
08:15 PM Post #6816112
| one Halloween the kids' jack o lantern was left beside the garage when we had early snow, we got a vine growing in the spring. my husband pulled it up very quickly because it was "in his grass." |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 13, 2009
08:18 PM Post #6816131
| lol. The thing is were we smashed the pumpkins theres a big pile of doggie poo and a 3ft jungle of weeds. I should get the landlord to wack them but I never catch him when he's mowing |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 13, 2009
09:19 PM Post #6816332
| we grow pumpkins every year from last years halloween pumpkins. Super lazy style usually next to the compost pile. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 13, 2009
10:09 PM Post #6816512
| O.K. all the red-neck is trying to put an image of this thing on the thread. I used my square to give you an idea of the size. It measures 9 inchs from where the stem is attached to the bottom and is equally that wide across. The thing is, it is still green and growing. It had to have come from one of the bad Ambrosia cantalopes I threw on the compost pile last year. They can get to a fair size but nothing like this thing. Maybe it reverted back to what Ambrosia was bred from. I hope it ripens so I can see what kind of flavor it has. If I am successful getting this image up I am going to post one of the vine itself. That thing covers an area of approx. 16 ft. by 16 ft. All from one single little seedling. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 13, 2009
10:12 PM Post #6816518
| Ooops! Got the wrong image up first. Will try again. 
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 13, 2009
10:47 PM Post #6816678
| Jim41, you learned how to post a pic and that cantalope vine should hold more than just one. It's been a few year's since I tried growing cantalope but your's look's like it's rippening just fine and should taste quite yummy.
I have enjoyed your writting's Jim and hope you continue;-)
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 13, 2009
11:01 PM Post #6816764
| Thanks RachelLF, I have only been on Dave's for about a month and it has been a blast, especially this thread. My wife is getting jealous of the time I spend on this site. The cantalope vine has about a dozen on it that are as large as the ones in my cantalope bed and they are green and growing as well. There are a multitude of little fellows as well. It is hard for me to believe all those vines come from one little seedling. If you ever raise any more try the Ambrosia I mentioned. I love cantalope but had about quit eating them because they had no flavor. Then a guy gave me one of these and reminds me of the ones my dad raised except a little larger. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 13, 2009
11:19 PM Post #6816849
| Glad your here. Just tell your wife to sit down and join in on the fun on Dave's Garden;-)
Rachel
Edit: I will have to try the Ambrosia next year;-)
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 14, 2009
12:04 AM Post #6817008
| One of my most favorite people in the world is named Rachel. She was a master gardener and knew more about plants than anyone I have ever known. She is nearly blind now and had to sell her home and moved into a trailer by her daughter. If she could use a computer and get on this site, we would all learn a lot.
If your are going to try the Ambrosia, better start now looking for seed. They were hard to get this year. |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 14, 2009
12:49 AM Post #6817124
| While you've been chatting off topic your slugs have eaten all your plants,lol. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 14, 2009
01:34 AM Post #6817192
| that cantaloupe does look good! Jim you're lucky you don't have to buy the tasteless cantaloupe at the grocery store...blech. In the summer I get it from the farm stands & it's pretty good, but winters it's awful. Thanks for posting the pic, although I was already looking forward to cat head bisquits with mater gravy & some Community coffee to go with that big cantaloupe.
Pajonica if you send us some lizards we can chat all day while they take care of the slugs. |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 14, 2009
04:11 AM Post #6817262
| They don't have green cards. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 14, 2009
08:38 AM Post #6817651
| If slugo sends anyone free samples maby we should start talking about merical grow. I go through that stuff like crazy |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 14, 2009
08:39 AM Post #6817654
| Miracle Gro? |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 14, 2009
08:41 AM Post #6817659
| yea, I knew I didnt spell it right |
pirl
Southold, NY
(Zone 7a)
July 14, 2009
08:43 AM Post #6817664
| It's not horribly expensive at Wal Mart or Home Depot and using less of it is far better than using too much. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 14, 2009
08:56 AM Post #6817697
| I get it for about $2 at my local discount stoor. it also depends on how many plants your using it for to. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 14, 2009
11:18 AM Post #6818089
| Jim41, that's one purdy/yummy lookin cantaloupe! Where can we find ambrosia seeds so we may TRY to emulate your success (by that I mean dumping them in a compost heap and pray!:-)? Seriously, I'd like to try to grow one them thangs...
As for Miracle Gro, I'm not a fan of their fertilizers/amenders, but I sure love their potting/garden soil! That stuff is gold! BUT I just discovered that HDs SUPER SOIL is almost as good as the Miracle Gro soil 'cept it's like 50% cheaper!
I use Spray-n-Grow and their fish emulsion. Sometimes I add the free CocoWet sample they included. Also figured out that if you use a couple of drops of SuperThrive in a vase of cut flowers, they perk up and last wayyy longer! No need for that florist's powder...
We have a doggy poo "disposal area" in our backyard (a sunken perforated 5 gal plastic pail with rocks at the bottom and sprinkled with septic tank powder every month to aid in decomposition). What amazes us is that the plants near that area are growing twice as fast and a lot healthier looking than the rest. (I bought 3 identical butterfly bushes in april and the one near the "area" is now almost 5 feet tall while the other two are still around 2 feet tall...) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 14, 2009
03:36 PM Post #6819077
| you should see the weeds in out doggy poo pile. they grow like crazy!! somtimes I take alittle if the topsoil from that area and use it like a fertlizer in my flowers. Theres also hampster shavings, charcole from the grill, and lawn litter. I guess my plants like it |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 14, 2009
04:04 PM Post #6819183
| Well gang, I picked 16 cantalopes Sunday just before dark and 23 today. Spent the rest of the morning driving over the country giving them away. Surprising how folks are glad to see me when the cantalopes are ripe. Still about a dozen on the vine. Two years ago I order my seed from Burpee and they got back ordered until it was almost to late to plant. This year I bought seedlings from a young man who put in a green house right down the road from me. Don't know where he orders his seed from but he told me had trouble finding them. The cantalope that covered Northeast Louisiana continues to thrive. I think it is feeding off the slugs so pajonica doesn't have to worry about my garden. New runners are showing up every where as the local supply dwindles. Miracle Grow potting soil is all my wife uses on her plants. It is so good because it is laced with the fertilizer. If she gets any more pot plants (89 and counting) I am going to have to buy a semi and haul direct from the factory. I watched her the other day try to throw a limb off of one of the pot plants into the compost pile, she made two or three attempts and then went and got a pot and planted it. It WILL LIVE, so I guess that makes 90. By the way, today I celebrate my 68th birthday. I shall live for two more years, at least, I am determined to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. I promised Jo that I would hire a real preacher to marry us this time and I always keep my promises to her. Sometimes it takes two or three years, but I am a man of my word. By the way, there is another thread about mint that is trying to out post us. So far we are way a head of them. I also through in that mention of my slug eating plant so no one could accuse me of getting off the subject. Love all you guys and wish I could meet you personally. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 14, 2009
04:13 PM Post #6819214
| :-) But man oh man does it stink! Can't stand the smell esp right when my hubby does the poop-patrol and walks around with a half-full pooperscooper looking for more- er- crap! Me no care what I'm in the middle of doing in the garden- I RUN to the house and start spraying air freshener (on one hand and bug spray on another) after him! The flies are horrendous- it's like they know it's DINNER TIME! :-) AKKKKKK! Duck and cover! Ya don know where those flies landed before they decide to park their poop-stinky little feet and hairy butts on you!!! (Jeez! I'm getting goosebumps just thinkin about it...) Eeeek!
Well Happy Birthday Jim41! and Congratulations! I'm pretty sure you'll get to see the big 50th and many more after that! My parents made it to almost 60 years until my mom passed away about five years ago... But here's hopin you and your BETTER half get to the big 75th! Hear, hear!
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 14, 2009
05:01 PM Post #6819402
| I gotta get me some slug eating cantaloupes...those are some good cantaloupes!
I don't have a dog poo pile, but i do have a poo story...a few years ago there was a den of foxes a few yards over. they're a protected species here in MA, don't know about other states. Anyway they were babies & liked to come to my kids' playscape and lay around the warm peastone...and they weren't afraid of anything, either (I think they got the notice of protection) Anyway our golden retriever was real old by then, 13, half blind, incontinent, he had pee'd on the kitchen floor and my husband half-carried him out (he was big, 100 lb golden) and put him in the backyard & came in to clean up...so my husband hears this strange crying sound, goes back outside to find these foxes had surrounded the dog & were calling each other. The dog just lay there, didn't even bark, he knew he was a goner, too old to move...my husband got a mag light and tried to get the dog up, and the foxes started flanking him...it was almost midnight, and my husband was shining the flashlight & could see the pairs of eyes moving around...he banged the light on the picnic table and the foxes retreated & he was able to half carry & half drag the poor old dog in the house...so we had had it with these fox, we had already called animal patrol (nothing we can do sorry) so we got some cougar poop and threw it around the perimeter of the yard. I know you're wondering WHERE we scored cougar poop...we had connections with the local zoo ;)
oh I think the dog ate slugs...he was always drooling & looking pathetic.
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 14, 2009
05:03 PM Post #6819408
| Happy Birthday Jim! Are you having ripe tomato & splenda pie? ;) |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 14, 2009
05:18 PM Post #6819463
| Speaking of dogs eating STUFF... Found a mangled Orajel (toothache meds) tube THEN found our DROOLING (and I mean DRIPPING!) semi-dog puppy under one of the chairs... I'd have felt sorry for him but it was just too funny! I couldn't catch my breath laughing! :-D And our poor stupid semi-dog puppy was just lookin at me and was like, "wha-? whaf ya loowin a-? "... Hilarious!
Jim41, we wish you a wonderful day! May all your wishes come true! I'm bakin you a virtual birthday cake in the shape of catshead biskits :) don forget to blow the virtual candles!
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 14, 2009
06:26 PM Post #6819727
| Jim41, I jsut re-read your post... Wha?!? A "mint" thread TRYING to outpost ours?!? Are they insane?!? I guess we're gonna have to slugbug their thread! (btw, I heard it through the GRAPEVINE that iluvcatz's been pulling a double-agent stint over there... rrriiiiight!? :-) hehehe... What a SLUG! :-) (w00t! double pun!!!:-)
We still rule tho... We don't EVEN HAVE a PICTURE to lure people YET we do!... Score!
*eleventh commandment: "honor thy original post subject (even if it don make a licka sense!)"
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 14, 2009
06:26 PM Post #6819729
| Ooops. double-posted. (don know how to delete this...) sowee.
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iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 14, 2009
08:24 PM Post #6820163
| lol. Dogs can be stupidly funny. This is my dorkie dog. sorry about the poor quality
Whats wrong with my idea of the never ending mint thread?
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wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 14, 2009
09:04 PM Post #6820330
| fitting |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 14, 2009
09:49 PM Post #6820537
| Hi Jim and Happy Birthday! Wishing you so many, many more as well;-) 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 14, 2009
09:53 PM Post #6820548
| Thank you one and all for the birthday greetings. The virtual cake was virtually delicious and it didn't even raise my blood sugar level. The only thing was long virtual nose got burned blowing out the virtual candles.
No, Lynn, I think I have eaten my last ripe tomatoe and splenda pie. Still gag thinking about that thing. Hmm, wonder if the cantalope that rules would eat it. Naah! Only I, the dutiful husband, was crazy enough to keep trying to eat it. Inside joke everyone else.
Yes, iluvcat's was double dipping but so was I. They wondered how anyone could talk about slugs so much. My answer was we all have slugs but we all don't have mint. Sharp, huh. They are pretty dainty on that thread. Talked a lot about sniffing mint, not a good poop story in the bunch. Speaking of poop, Bought my daughter a 4-H pig years ago. The guy was supposed to call me when to pick up the pig. Waited and waited no call. Finally, to get the kid off my back, I called him. Oh yeah, been meaning to call. kept forgetting. In to my brand new car, the first I ever bought. Little pig, tow sack, yep that will work. The pig weighed 125 pounds. Idea, tie its feet together and put it in the trunk. All the way home the pig squeeled. When I got home I found out the squeeler was attached to its rectum. Squeel - poop- squeel-poop all the way home. Every time the weather would warm up the car smelled just like pig poop. Waited for the weather to turn cold then traded the car. Someone sure got a surprize the next summer.
Remember gang, "SLUGS RULE" |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 14, 2009
09:58 PM Post #6820572
| I must add as well Jim41, Your friend "Rachel" sound's like a person I would enjoy hanging out with. I had several great gardner's in my family, one was my Mother. I regret not spending more time and learning more from her and a few other relative's. Dave's Garden is and has been a good learning "tool" for me.
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 14, 2009
10:00 PM Post #6820580
| Just scanned back through the thread. Did any of you notice that Janemarierose, the originator of this post never acknowledged all this valuable information we have been giving. Hey, you good start a school with all this information. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 14, 2009
10:08 PM Post #6820634
| I have regrets, too. My dad was a master gardener. Wished I had paid attention instead of just thinking of it as work. My granddad was a good gardener. He did every thing by the signs of the moon. Oh well, to late now. My big mistake was not passing on what I know to my son and daughter. If this economy collapses totally, as it very well could do, I can raise enough to feed my family. Some folks will starve to death. My wife and I still know how to can in jars. I even have a wood stove, if push comes to shove. Foolish! Maybe. Been called a lot worse. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 14, 2009
10:31 PM Post #6820769
| NO! Not foolish at all Jim. I know how to can food and raise a garden...and know all about using a wood stove as well;-) I guess you seldom have the need for much heat in the Winter month's where you live though;-)
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 14, 2009
11:49 PM Post #6821085
| I've seen the temp down to zero one time. Occationly we will get temps down to about 15 but rare. Never remember but one or two times a cold snap lasting over a couple of weeks and usually not that long. I built a green house last fall for my wife and all I used to heat it was an electric heater. That just at night. and not many of them. We came close to getting part of that ice storm that devastated Arkansas last winter so am going to install a butane heater just in case.
Was posting this reply to you Rachael when my battery died. Guess you've gone to bed by now. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 15, 2009
12:49 AM Post #6821229
| Hey Jim41! The virtual cake was a breeze to bake :-)! Glad you liked it! Btw, the pig part? My hat's off to ya ma friend! Another ROTFLOL moment for me :)
Iluvcatz, of course sumtin's wrong with the mint thread: it ain't slugs! :-D But it's for good clean fun, right? (Of course OUR slug thread IS better, noh? Oui! Oui! :-)
Ooh! I found a little black and white kittykat under my car at work today! Didn't want to skeddadle so I had to wait for it to move before I could go home! Cute little thing too! Had huge blue eyes ! I wonder where it's momma went... It'll probably grow into a slug-eating cat too by the looks of it...
(almost forgot- ehem!): SLUGS RULE, MINT DROOL! :-D j/k!
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 15, 2009
12:58 AM Post #6821249
| I think that bunch is getting stoned over there at mint ville. Think they are all guzzling mint julips. But at least as they are getting into there cups they are starting to talk about slugs. Just goes to show you slugs are fun. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 15, 2009
05:47 AM Post #6821455
| Chezka very funny about the orajel! And Jim I think you scared the poop out of that pig, should have let him ride in the front with you ;) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 15, 2009
07:21 AM Post #6821616
| I think I'm going to start throwing the "guts" from the cantalope outside for now on. What is that fish stuff you guys have been talking about?
Jim, How can you say slugs rule? We have been talking about getting rid of them. Of corse this thread is going to be more popular, alot of people conciter mint plants weeds. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 15, 2009
11:02 AM Post #6822296
| Which fish stuff? The fertilizer or the guttin-yer-own-fish? :-) The fertilizer's called "fish emulsion"- plants love it bcos it is organic and it IS fish so very stinky.
As fer the mint, only seen fresh mint at the bottom of a tall empty glass with "some" ice leftover :-)...
Me can't have a pet pig... Too close to bacon thoughts... (mmmm... bacon...!) Maybe a pet chicken, BUT see, me love KFC... Darn! Maybe a pet duck? They eat snails and SLUGS... BUT me likey peking duck at the chinese place so scratch that! I'm just gonna have to stick with my semi-dog puppy to get those slugs in check :-)!
(pssst! hey maybe we could "infiltrate" the mint people and make them start talking more about slugs!? Eh? whaddya say?!?:)
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 15, 2009
11:49 AM Post #6822543
| The more zapped they get on all those julips the more they talk about slugs. Not sure if they are two legged or live under a plant. Us red necks are kind of slow.
Yep, we are trying to get rid of the varmints, maybe I should have said Slug Thread Rules. Howsoever, found out that isn't even true, ran a cross a thread last night that had 429 posts. Made me sick, wouldn't even read it. How could anybody make that many posts and not be talking about slugs.
Wish some of you guys were close enough to give some tomatoes to. Picked 10 gal. this morning and 5 gal. of squash and 4 gal. of cukes. How on earth is this stuff making in the high heat we have been having in Louisiana. Maybe it's to hot for the slugs and the plants are taking advantage. Wishful thinking. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 15, 2009
12:19 PM Post #6822687
| 429?!? Then we gots a lot of work to do people! :-)
Hey Jim41! How close are ya to California?!? :-) We loove maters here! Esp the semi-dog puppy! (Serious!) I've been trying to grow maters for two years now and was perplexed as why I didn't get to harvest anything last season. Oh I saw the little taters on the plants but never got to see em ripen... We found out when we reviewed our security cameras that- yep- the semi-dog puppy took a likin to maters! Thinks they're the best thing (second to slugs of course) in the world to munch on! He still does too! He'd sit right in front of the kitchen counter when he sees me choppin/washin maters, waiting for a handout :-) (really cute!). He also likes fruits too and quite a number of veggies. Weird dog I tell ya... Oh and don't even get me started on tater chips! It HAS to be the salt&vinegar Lays potato chip for him, otherwise he won't touch it! He don like eggs and french toast tho and I wonder why...
(ehem!) SLUG THREAD RULES!!! :-) (yippeekayay!) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 15, 2009
07:16 PM Post #6824278
| jim, you can always bring some of the tomatos to a local homless shelter, food bank or food drive.
I was talking about the fish emulsion. Next time a fish in our tank dies I am probally going to burry it in my flowers |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 15, 2009
09:53 PM Post #6824803
| Hey that's a good idea! But if you want to make it better, you should (and I know this is gonna sound blech but i swear it'll be better) put it in a blender and add a couple of cups of water. It will get absorbed better and that way you wont smell it longer than if you left a whole fish (decomp is nasty). |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 15, 2009
10:42 PM Post #6825061
| Rachael I didn't open the thumnail the other night but did just now, that is a really beautiful hibiscus. I'll have to put up one of my day lilies.
Chezca, California is a long way from here. Always wanted to see northern California, my wife's brother-in-law used to drive a transport and he really liked that part of the country.
Iluvcats, the closest homeless shelter is about 40 miles from me. We share with Jo's sister and mine and a host of people from the church. Several of the widow ladies would never see fresh produce if we didn't carry them some. The fun of raising this stuff is giving it away and I luv fresh veggies.
Jo put up dill pickles Monday. Used something called Mrs. Wages Kosher Dill Mix. Broke out a quart tonight to try. They are great. First dills she's put up in a number of years. Didn't have time or a place to garden on the last church field. Glad to be back home. Will never move again.
What do you guys use for white flys. Noticed some on my okra. Got to get them under control before they spread to the cantalope that covered north Louisiana.
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iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 16, 2009
08:40 AM Post #6825897
| Well, I am sure you can find somone to take them. The price of living is getting crazy now a days. I dont know anyone who would turn down free food. I dont know how you could save the seads.
Heres a thought. You could post an ad on craigs list. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 16, 2009
11:10 AM Post #6826394
| Came across this... Sooo cute. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 16, 2009
12:45 PM Post #6826843
| Morning Gang, I love the pic. Wish we had it at the top of the thread for our logo. Mowed the yard today. Didn't really need it, just scraggly. Picked 2 dishpans full of figs. Looks like the lady is in the canning business again. Got to get those babies something put up. Think we'll by pass the mater gravey and eat fig preserves with them thar cat heads for a while. Got to drive 40 miles to mow my son's yard where he is moving to this week end. Told him I would mow but to darn old and lazy to help him move. Old well, someday he is going to grow up and not need the old man. I hinted for him to take a day off and put down a pump for me but all of a sudden he lost his hearing. I know thats right because he started talking about something else just like I had even spoken. Think I'll send him a bill for the mowing. Wonder how he'll react to that. Don't pay any attention to this, just an old man mumbling. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 16, 2009
01:03 PM Post #6826941
| Law & Order: S.L.U.G. 
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 16, 2009
01:45 PM Post #6827088
| Love the slug cartoons, Chezca!
Jim I drove all the way to my mother's with my 2 little helpers to paint her arbor, it started raining as I got there...came home, no rain here it's sunny. She pulled me outside to look at her rhodies (I've been trying to cut them down for 2 years, but it keeps raining between the blooms & buds, can't cut the buds I'd never hear the end of it) and she complained that there only bare branches on the bottom...these shrubs have been in since I think 1970, probably haven't been trimmed in at LEAST 10 years...I may have to talk her into pulling them out & planting new, she would not like looking at bare branches till they grow out. Plus they have taken over her whole front yard. There are maple saplings in there I have my eye on too.
I would come help you with your pump but I have no idea what it is :) I work for bisquits & gravy, or chocolate chip cookies. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 16, 2009
04:10 PM Post #6827698
| Lynnie, why pull them out? Can't you just trim and remove the dead and sordid-lookin parts? Your mom sounds a lot like my mom used to be :-). She has to SEE flowers ALL the time... Says she hated a drab-lookin garden ;)
Does your mom have SLUGS in her garden? (needed to inject "slug" in here out of respect :-) |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 16, 2009
06:36 PM Post #6828147
| If anyone's already said this SORRY but I didn't read through the whole threat, just not enough time right now. But about the copper tape, I believe I heard that the slugs get shocked when they touch it. I don't know why and I may be incorrect but I do think that's what I've heard. Something in them reacts to the copper.
I use Sluggo too. It's MAGIC (and curtains for Mr. Slug!) Sluggo ROCKKKKKSSS!! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 16, 2009
07:21 PM Post #6828296
| Hey GrammyJo! Welcome... to... the darkside..! :-) Finally got tired of the mint juleps over yonder eh? :-) (j/k!)
Seriously- have fun! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 16, 2009
07:57 PM Post #6828439
| Hi grammyjo, welcome!
Chezca all parts are dead looking lol these rhodies are 7-8 feet high and about 5 feet deep, only the top and front are green, once you go in about 12 inches it's all bare wood. They need to be cut about 3 feet off the top and 1 1/2 feet from the front, so she'd be pretty unhappy with that look. I can hack them to to the ground & move them to her side yard & let them re-grow there, & put new ones in her front yard. There's actually a brick border with hostas growing about 1 1/2 feet inside the rhodies. I crawled in there (no small undertaking for one who fears bugs) in the spring & reported back on the hostas. My mother used to use an upside down frisbee with my brother in law's beer in it to catch the slugs...the big ones loved it! (the slugs not the guys)
come to think of it, those hostas have survived in there for a LONG time! How long do those things live? |
wonderearth
Santa Cruz, CA
(Zone 9b)
July 16, 2009
10:24 PM Post #6829061
| AAK i took years to convince my grandmother to cut back her azalea, it was all bare branches, yuck. We took it all the way to the ground. It came back fast but the flowers were sparse the first year, i think only one. It was straight up haunted! It was set up so you just looked right into the dead back of the thing from the dinning room window. Wow, 40 year old shrubs can be so cool or so horrible. Lots of SLUGS under there too, well not really but spiders for sure! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 16, 2009
11:56 PM Post #6829402
| Hey spiders eat teenyweenie itty bitty slugs! Seen some trapped in spiderwebs last year. But since I barely see any slugs bcos of mr sluggo, my spiders are getting thinner! One thing I don't understand is the phobia with spiders... I grew up playing with spiders with my bros. We'd have a spider wrestling match, put two of them on a chopstick and see which one falls off! Was totally fun. Used them for bait too (garden spiders- long large black ones with very long legs). My hubby's deathly afraid of them so I'm the spider-squisher at home. Sometimes I scare em cos i just grab spidey with my fingers and squish them in front of their faces :-) Expressions are priceless! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 17, 2009
01:13 AM Post #6829602
| Like the cartoon Chezca. We have a little bugger down here called a brown recluse. Those rascals are looking for someone to bite. Don't guess the jokers ever killed anybody but I have known at least a dozen folks who wished they were for about a week. Got a good friend in the hospital now from a spider bite.
Lynnie I had to make an emergency hospital visit about 9 p.m. On the way home it started to rain. Had to drive about 40 it was raining so hard. Thank the Lord for the rain. We can't grow rhoddies down here. Azaleas rule. Had some all the way across the front of my home. They were here when we bought the house. They were the great big kind. I had to keep them pruned so hard that they never bloomed. There was also 2 camelias planted under the eaves of the house. Same problem. Last spring I was fixing to prune, instead I got out the chainsaw and cut them off even with the ground. Planted pink Knock Out roses back. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. Oh yeah, a pump is that thing you put down in the ground to access the water that is there, so you don't have to pay high city water bills for watering you plants. Bisquits and gravy and chocolate chip cookies are good for me. When you coming? Oh, and by the way, we have these things in La. called cottonmouths and copperheads that it is best not to crawl under a bush in the summer time.
Welcome to the thread, GrammJo. It is good to have you. Run with the slugs for a while and you will never go back to mint. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 17, 2009
01:21 AM Post #6829618
| Rachael I almost forgot. Told you I would put up a day lily photo. This isn't my favorite day lily but it was the only one I saw this year that had three bloomed out on one stem. 
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 17, 2009
04:16 AM Post #6829770
| "Hey GrammyJo! Welcome... to... the darkside..! :-) Finally got tired of the mint juleps over yonder eh?"
Uh oh…If this is the dark side I HAVE to leave. Slugs LOVE THE DARK SIDE!!!
Thanks for the welcome guys! Oh Jim…. I have to go back to the mint sometimes. Slugs taste better with mint on top, didn’t you KNOW THAT??? Geeezzzzz (That’s just common knowledge…) ;o)
By the way Recluse spiders are NOTHING to fool around with! We have them around here too, though I fortunately haven’t actually seen one around my home (doesn’t mean they aren’t here though). My neighbor 2 doors down was bitten by one several years ago and didn’t realize it until her skin started turning black. She ended up spending extensive time in the hosp. and having a huge chunk of her under arm cut out. She was really fortunate to get help when she finally did!
With that lovely story I’ll say nighty night. I’m gonna quickly check my other forums n threads and then off to bed. Catch ya’all later.
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 17, 2009
05:54 AM Post #6829825
| Funny you guys mention brown recluse spiders, I know 3 people here who got bit by one...my mother got bit & when she showed me her arm, it was turning brown & I made her go straight to the dr, he said he's never heard of these spiders but he gave her antibiotics & she was ok. She worked in a furniture store & thought maybe it came in a package.
After my mother pointed out the bare branches on the rhodies she pointed at another bush that she apparently is angry at...in the fall it's "supposed" to be red, it's yellow. She doesn't remember what it is. I asked her if it was a dogwood, she said it's not a tree. I do not argue with Mother ;) She has quite the green thumb but she buys things she has no idea what they are & then she messes with them & they grow like mad. She wants that one pruned too. It has green & yellow variegated leaves, it's a good 10 feet.
Wonderearth funny you mention haunted...these rhodies are probably much older they were there when my parents bought the house in 1973. It's a Victorian built in 1875 and if that house isn't haunted I don't know what is! There are 8 of us kids and we're all convinced of that!
oh Jim you mean a well...my husband has been talking about doing that too. I did at least put in 2 rain barrels, but I go through that water pretty quick. I want one more. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 17, 2009
11:39 AM Post #6830741
| GrammyJo, me likey your humor :-) You're already fitting in poyfectly!
I've seen those tv specials/documentaries about spiders. And yep, the brown recluse wins all the time since it looks so innocuous. House spiders are almost always non-venomous or are very low in the "will-kill-ya" scale. I've seen those VERY graphic photos of spiderbites too- just horrid! Just make sure you familiarized yourselves with the venomous spiders and stay clear from them.
I guess my DH's arachnopbhobia is almost the same as my scoliodentosaurophobia AND murophobia (lizards and rats/mice! eww.).
Oh and I just looove haunted houses. Actually, anything haunted. |
lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 18, 2009
04:52 AM Post #6833714
| ARE YOU ALL MAD???????????????????
thought i would read this thread as we in the UK have big problems with snails and slugs. thought i minght get some good ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now i have a belly ache from laughing.
Jim hows about popping over to the UK with some of your wierd biscutes and gravy? green tomato pie??????????? what on earth is that?
Back to the slug/snail problem, i have found the crushed egg shell/coffee granules and teabags do the trick. the snails get a meal througth the shells and a dring from the tea/coffee and all leave fed and watered. so we are all happy.
BY THE WAY how did you lot end up talking about cantaloup melons???????
have come to the conclusion you are all mad. but made me laugh.
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 18, 2009
05:21 AM Post #6833748
| hi lainymay, pretty much we're all mad :) but welcome to our slug thread. We do have good ideas, they just don't all involve slugs. I can't believe a slug would infest a proper English garden, though, the nerve! I hope you're not saying I'm attracting them when I throw my coffee grounds around outside. That never occurred to me.
Chezka I have a phobia of any creepy crawly, especially if it has more than 4 legs that's just not right!
And if you love haunted houses you'd LOVE my mother's old house. Place gives us all the creeps. I myself will not be there alone (even as a kid growing up there) and my kids are glued to my side when we go over there.
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lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 18, 2009
06:50 AM Post #6833867
| lynnie we do have a big problem in the uk with slugs/snails, i suspect its b3ecause we never have great weather.
i have had a good laugh reading this thread and come up with the idea if i leave a plate of fish and chips out for them, they will have thier feast and go away full and content and leave my plants alone.
what do you think? |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 18, 2009
08:26 AM Post #6833973
| lainymay if you leave a plate of food out *I* may come have a feast lol
I heard that about the weather in England...then years ago a friend married a British girl and a bunch of us went over for the wedding. We spent 5 days in London it was 80 degrees & sunny...hot as heck in the city. And there were no ice cubes for drinks. But we had a blast and the people everywhere were very nice, very fun, quite brilliant actually :) The wedding was in a town called Chester. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 18, 2009
10:36 AM Post #6834325
| Welcome aboard lainymay. We are just an everyday, garden variety, common sort American. Scattered all over the country, we've found we have a lot in common. People from other nations and countries are beginning to join us now as they are finding they have something in common with us. What is that that draws so many people from so far away, together. SLUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep, the everyday slippery, slimmy,creepy, crawly slug. Who would ever have thought this would be the rallying cry of nations. This just might be what is needed to make us all brothers. Hey Yall, that ain't half bad for a redneck. And them there bisquits ain't weird at all in my part of the country. Mater gravy and green tomatoe pie are for the educated palate. A real gormet treat, unless the maters are to ripe and you try to use splenda. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 18, 2009
10:42 AM Post #6834350
| slugs make friends |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 18, 2009
10:52 AM Post #6834393
| Well said Lynn. You said briefly what I in my rambling was trying to say. I have made some friends on this thread that look forward to hearing from every day. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 18, 2009
03:02 PM Post #6835104
| wow Lain, You actually red ALL of this??? |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 18, 2009
03:18 PM Post #6835150
| Hey, iluvcatz. I think this thread should be required reading before you are allowed to go to any other thread. Maybe we should compile all this into a book and get it published. Make the best seller list over night. I could use my part of the royaltys to supliment my SS. Yeah!!! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 18, 2009
03:27 PM Post #6835183
| Jim sell tickets to your giant slug eating cantaloupe ;)
hehehe just pushed us to 200 |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 18, 2009
04:28 PM Post #6835385
| 201 Yeah, Lynn. You are quick on your feet. Us ole dumb rednecks never would of thought of that. Tomorrow is Sunday so I'll wait til Monday and put up a toll booth. Maybe one of those turnstile thing ur ma bobies. Have a great week end, all. Jim |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 19, 2009
12:15 AM Post #6836759
| Well all you southerners on the thread, I just finished eating a good ole southern supper (for my notheren friends, that is the meal we eat at night, dinner we eat at noon). Had fresh pink eyed purplehull peas boiled with a ham hock with a hand full of that good ole slimey okra thrown in for added flavor, red ripe juicy tomatoes (seeds and all), with about a foot tub of good fried cow horn okra. Had a rotissery chicken we bought at Sam's but decided not foul up our taste buds with fowl. If company comes tomorrow guess what they get.
I didn't think they could do it but the mintys are at 199 and posting.
Talk to yall later, Jim |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
01:46 AM Post #6836928
| “GrammyJo, me likey your humor :-) You're already fitting in poyfectly!”
Thanks Chezca! I fit in POYfectly??? All I can say in response is
‘neyack neyack’……..’woo woo woo woo woo!!!’ (I’ll splain that to ya if you don’t get it ;o)
Jim, I’m really concerned that a ‘man of the cloth’ would be talking about his wife’s ‘pot plants’. Tisk tisk…. are we talking about plants IN pots or the kind you grow in large fields hoping the Feds never discover the location of……..HUM????? LOL
lainymay, it IS a bunch of silliness, isn’t it!? I got ‘slugged’ and now I can’t get away. LOL
How much you all want to bet that lainymay has………… mint in her garden??? ……..OH the HORROR!!! I KNOW it’s upsetting but it just had to be said, no way of getting around it!
lainymay, do the hotels in the UK have ice-cubes for their guests? I couldn’t LIVE without ice-cubes!
Jim, that meal sounded pretty good until you got to the ‘slimy okra’………..YUCK!!! Now my husband was born in a cabin in the middle of a cotton field down in Tenn. 63 years ago (could even see chickens under the cabin...er..shack through the floor boards) and he’s ‘there’ for all that down home cookin, me too for most part. But we Northern girls have to draw the line SOME where! And OKRA is where I draw my line. BLLECK!!
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 19, 2009
02:04 AM Post #6836946
| If you haven't tried it don't knock it. If it's cooked right it's really not slimy. Just that way when you use to big of a pod and over cook. The flavor is great. Did I mention I also had fried okra. No slime a tall. By the way, the mints have out posted us. And on the pot plants we red necks seldom add the ed. Potted Plants. The last church I was senior pastor at was in Caldwell and it is the pot capital of Louisiana. The parish is primarily hills and pine trees. They find an area that has been clear cut and get out in the middle of it and clean a place and plant it down in Mary Jane. Don't think the sheriffs department tries to hard to catch them to busy trying to shut the meth labs down. Got to go to bed. Preaching tomorrow at the first church I ever preached at. Going to use the same scripture. Still remember it after 28 years. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
05:23 AM Post #6837035
| Jim I'm not much buying the dumb ol' redneck thing, but that's ok, we'll go along with ya if you want ;) I have been to Texas and OK, had okra it wasn't too bad. It wasn't cooked by your wife and now I'm unreasonably partial to her cooking despite the fact that I've never had it and despite the ripe tomato pie incident lol They actually sell okra frozen in my grocery store...never bought that.
We brought my niece out to dinner for her birthday & I had cajun beef and it was really good. And I'm pretty hard to please. I don't like packaged food, canned fruits or veggies, processed food...life is too short to eat crappy food, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm making all my posts separate, we're behind the mint thread! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
05:28 AM Post #6837039
| 3 stooges, right Grammyjo? my husband loves them...got the kids watching them...my kids are very TV deprived, they're lucky to see an hour a day, and there they were one day, giggling away at the 3 stooges...it was pretty funny. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
05:48 AM Post #6837048
| Grammyjo,
we stayed in a 3 star hotel (can't think of the name...it was in Piccadilly Circus) and there were no ice machines, no private bathrooms, and no a/c. The hotel was nice, but if you want those amenities I guess you have to go to a 4 or 5 star. The dollar was already weak against the English pound then (10 years ago) and my American dollars did not buy me ice lol
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lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 19, 2009
06:01 AM Post #6837053
| grammyjo are you spying on me? yes i do have mint in the garden, apple mint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, eau de cologne mint ( yeh they really do exist ) and of course we have ice cube machines in our hotels. have to say we are very posh you know.lol
you wont believe this but in the winter our slugs have little knitted suits on to keep themselves warm as they go cruising for food.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND WHATS WRONG WITH MINT IN THE GARDEN????????????????
very nice taste putting a sprig in your peas, no i didn't say i pee mint!!!!!!!!!
OH NO im getting as crazy as you lot here. are you all up and about yet? it's 11am here in england. |
lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 19, 2009
06:06 AM Post #6837056
| linney are you sure it wasn't a bed and breakfast you were staying in??????????lol.
times have a changed since you were last here. everything hotel wise is upmarket aimed at poeple outside of london, very posh and also very expensive. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
06:09 AM Post #6837062
| well shoot now I'm going to have to find the name...(and you bumped up our count)
:)
it wasn't a b&b...we did stay in some during that trip, but not in London...I'll find it. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 19, 2009
07:51 AM Post #6837176
| I only read from my last post and I have to add alot of us have to much time on our hands (including me). |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
08:39 AM Post #6837269
| Lainymay, I believe it was the Regent Palace...I would have to dig out pictures to be sure...a friend did all the planning. I just googled it & I laughed to read that the freeholding company dropped it in 2006 because it's in such disrepair. It's a 2 star, and the pound is so strong against the dollar I STILL couldn't afford my own bathroom lol
I want to take the kids across the pond when they're older, I better start saving now!
I don't know what they used to control their slugs there, but it worked because i didn't see any. Maybe they stayed at the Sanderson? I bet they have ice there. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
08:41 AM Post #6837272
| iluvcatz I'm starting to wish they put the latest posts on top... |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 19, 2009
10:29 AM Post #6837505
| Lynnie, put your pointer on the slide and right click and hold and drag to bottom. What I do? If an old ignorant redneck like me figured it out a young sweet thing like you can do it. I am like you about canned, frozen and processed food. Don't care for it. Jo used to freeze a lot of peas and beans and the like and still does on a smaller scale. If it's not fresh I'd rather have dried beans or peas. My wife is a great cook although she would never admit it. All I know is when we have a pot luck at the church, her pots all ways go home empty. Didn't get to make England about 10 years ago. Visited are daughter in Germany and we spent a month running all over Europe, Made Switzerland, Bavarian Alps, Luxemburg. Holland, Belgium and France. Didn't realize how small Europe was or how old. Our country is still a baby compared to there. My daughter lived i a house built in 1100. Went to a restaraunt one night famous for its Snitzel (spelling) ordered a coke with it. Got a hot coke in the bottle, a glass and 2 ice cubes. Best meal we ate out while there was at a McDonalds in Verdon, France. The big shock to my wife was while we were zipping down the road to see men and women off on the side following the call of nature. Jo is just a sweet innocent country girl and she stayed red faced for a month. Especially, when she couldn't hold it anymore and we had to stop. If she knew I was posting this I would definitly be in the dog house. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
11:17 AM Post #6837673
| I'm cracking up at that picture! I bet you were laughing at her too when you pulled over weren't you Jim? lol They say it's a man's world. I didn't notice behavior like that in the UK.
I DO scroll down the side, I'm wildly impatient it's my worst fault (hubby's at the hardware store, can't disagree with me) I was thread hopping & I got impatient.
Also, that's exactly how many ice cubes I got in my drinks...2. We mostly ate Indian food, there were a lot of Indian restaurants & they were very good. I decided after that trip that ice is an American thing. We went to Ireland at that time, too. I don't think we drank anything but guinness there.
I didn't see any slugs in Ireland, but I confess when you drink guinness you forget to look for slugs.
Your daughter's house must have been VERY cool. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
11:21 AM Post #6837691
| iluvcatz I have to tell you I cleaned all the bathrooms and baked 2 dozen muffins in between posting...I don't want you guys to think I sit around all day! My computer is right on the kitchen counter (so I can keep an eye on the kids when they're on it) and every time I pass it I can check my emails & whatnot, becuase it's always on. Very handy for looking up recipes too. |
lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 19, 2009
01:49 PM Post #6838070
| hi all again, how are your slugs doing.still feasting away? we have just had a right pur down over here in England so it wont be long before the slimy slugs start showing their heads. i may be a bit thick but exactly what is the perpose of a slug? what does it do for the good of the garden ? AND how do they manage to get onto my hanging baskets> they must bungy jump or something.
Perhaps we should all get together and start a slug circus, what do you say, as they seem to be very clever slimy critters.
i think i am going mad.i was sane until i came on to this thread.
someone call a physciatrist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 19, 2009
03:10 PM Post #6838280
| my brother saw a slug that was as long as the panneling on his g/f house. EWWWWWWW |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 19, 2009
03:11 PM Post #6838283
| Sanity is a matter of opinion. We of the slug thread definitely think we are the ones who are sane and the rest of the world is nuts. And then again we are just so much fun. Everyone on this thread is an extremely intelligent person, except for me and I'm a red-neck and I don't count. We have our own way of reasoning and you have to be one to understand. I find your idea of a slug circus extremely exciting, it is the kind of thing I can get into.
Lynnie, are any of those muffins blueberry. I drool over blueberry muffins. Did I ever tell you my blueberry and red bug story. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 19, 2009
03:14 PM Post #6838288
| Lynnie can you imagine how funny it would be if they posted the last post first. Imagine how it would read. Oh goodness, I'm to old to think how weird it would sound. |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
July 19, 2009
05:06 PM Post #6838613
| O.K. you sluggies! Yes I'm double dipping from the mint thread = shocking = gasp!!!! But if you look WAY up at the top I've been here before LOL! I can't help it if we were gathered at a garden party and there were two groups I would be going back and forth. I admit being from Washington state where slug festivals are held and slug paraphernalia fills every tourist store I have seen my share of slugs so I haven't spent to much time here, but I thought you may enjoy the following:
Info from a WA state slug festival:
"Here's some slug trivia for you. Slugs have been around since the dinosaurs. The wet Olympic coast is home to 23 species of slugs. They have two tentacles, one for seeing and the other for feeling. Because their tentacles movie independently, they can see in two directions at once. Slugs have 27,000 teeth and eat their weight everyday. It would take more than 9 hours for a slug to finish a 100-yard dash.
That's why the organizers of the annual Slug Festival held every July no longer hold slug races. "It just wasn't much fun," Susan Hulbert of the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park says."
http://www.byteland.org/slugfest/index.html
http://www.getridofslugs.com/
Hope you enjoy :)
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 19, 2009
05:13 PM Post #6838636
| Hi everyone. Thought I'd put in my two cents and make it 222. I don't have any slugs but I got squash borers big enough to shishkabob. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 19, 2009
05:20 PM Post #6838654
| ah ha 223 |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
05:42 PM Post #6838734
| Well I finally got my mother's arbor painted...guess what was on it?? A baby slug. My mother painted it's belly before we saw it, then she flicked it off into the "garden" (overgrown area infested with bugs that attacked me as soon as I got in there). There was also a big striped one in her driveway blech! I think I stepped on that one before I saw it, it's head was a little smooshed. This is why I never go barefoot.
And the idea of pulling out her rhodies went over like a lead balloon...I offered to replace them, she doesn't want me buying them for her...I told her we could do it in the Spring & she can get a different color if she wants...she seems pretty attached to these..she planted them "with my father" (she stood over him while he planted them) when they bought the haunted house...let's see 36 years ago?
I know, I'm very fresh, aren't I? Jim you must have a sermon against that? I probably need a refresher!
If we do start a slug circus I can get lots of slugs from her house, I don't think she's attached to them. How do we train something that can't hear us? Maybe use slug braille, icanfindroom they could feel the directions with that creepy feeler tentacle, right? Where do they keep all those teeth? Eeew! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
05:51 PM Post #6838764
| Jim you're right, a dozen blueberry & a dozen chocolate chip...I need my chocolate. You haven't told us your blueberry & red bug story, now you have to...I'm thinking I'm going to be glad I already ate my muffins...
welcome jjsgramma do squash borers shishkebob as good as slugs? |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 19, 2009
06:20 PM Post #6838890
| Lynnie the scripture is, "How much sharper than a serpents tooth is the tongue of a child." Think I quoted that right. Don't have time to look it up. Of course there is always, "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days will be long upon the earth."
Red bug story later got to go to church. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 19, 2009
06:23 PM Post #6838905
| I'm shreading junk mail for my plants |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 19, 2009
07:01 PM Post #6839015
| iluvcatz, that is BRILLIANT, why did I never think of that?
Jim my days are long enough, how much longer are we talking here? Is there a crankyface icon? I'm tired & cranky. Think I'll have another muffin...
(oops that was fresh...I am going to be a remedial student...) I do like that first quote, though, sounds like my little one...my mother always says your children keep you humble...if that's a euphemism for exhausted I'm right there. Well probably partly because I've been waking up at 3 or 4 AM the last few nights, which is just ridiculous. I'm a little punchy.
slugs/serpents...hmmmm... |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:08 PM Post #6839041
| Well brother Jim, YOU’RE the one that said ‘slimy’ okra first!! LOL I’ve actually tried it fried but it didn’t appeal to me. It may be a ‘subconscious’ dislike more than from the taste. But with the buffet world full of so many other selections I don’t NEED your okra! How COOL that you’ll be preaching (or preached already ;o) at your first church. That is sooooo neat! How’d it feel? Bet you met a lot of old (and I MEAN old ;o) friends, right? |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:09 PM Post #6839044
| Yes….of COISE the Three Stupids! I always loved them, haven’t watched in years though.
Now we must give Jim the benefit of the doubt here. If not he might just find out where we live and come put a slug on our HEADS!! AARG!!!! Good idea about posting each separately too. And that way it won’t look like I’m writing a novel eve time I write! Of course it'll look like I'm monopolizing the threat but what the heck. LOL
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iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 19, 2009
07:09 PM Post #6839046
| another thread, I have to admit it it easier than choping up all those twigs |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:09 PM Post #6839047
| Lynnie, if the $ was already weak then I hate to think about what you COULDN’T buy there now! And it’s not looking like it will get better for a loooooong time. I can remember when the $ was THE top currency. Wish we could go back to then……. |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:09 PM Post #6839048
| lainy…me spy on you???... why NO, I wouldn’t do such a thing. FOR MERCY….why ever do you ask?? LOL Eau de cologne mint?? That’s a riot! I’ve never heard of that. I do have an Apothecary rose in my back yard though which is used in the perfume industry. KNITTED SUITS FOR YOUR SLUGS??? Dear lainy….you’ve gone and lost your bloomin mind! My slugs only wear grass skirts (males too) since grass is abundant in our yard and ever so much cheaper than knitted fabrics. ;o)
And what’s wrong with PEE soup? HA!! (It does seem like you’re loosing your marbles dear, must be something about having slugs on the brain….oops! I mean mind. ;o) Oh yes, and I’d LOVE to see those critters bungee jump! That gives me an idea about how to use our hundreds of rubber bands in the kitchen drawer……………..
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:10 PM Post #6839054
| iluvcatz, I don’t really have too much time on my hands. But I usually wait till it’s waaaaaaaay past bedtime to check out my email and forums. Today I’m doing it early. TA DAA!!
By the way does your brothers GF live near a nuclear power plant???!??? GROSS!!!!!!!!
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:10 PM Post #6839056
| You guys can also just push down the scroll wheel which will set it to scroll up or down at various speeds depending on how far up or down you pull the mouse. Just click it again to stop that function. That’s even easier than using the margin scroll. If I were in the UK and wanted ice I’d have to offer to pay for more then two cubes! Now my husband would be fine with that but I need a glass full for myself, no kidding. They’d make a bundle off me just selling me ICE!
I can’t imagine WOMEN peeing just off the road………in PUBLIC?? REALLY???? Men maybe although here they'd be arrested if caught. But I just can’t wrap my head around women doing that. I HAVE actually had to right NEXT to the car between the door and my hubby standing on the other side to block the view (snickering all the time of course). Really?... they do that out in the OPEN?? I still don’t believe it. Yes Lynnie, it IS a man’s world too, especially when they’re in a fishing boat. That’s the only time I wish I were a man…. LOL
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:11 PM Post #6839057
| Lynnie, I can tell you why you didn’t see any slugs in Ireland. They stay in the forests with the fairies since they fairies need something to ride on. Of course the slugs move sooooooo slowly that’s the reason you never SEE the fairies when your there!!! You’re so lucky you got to go there. I’m of Irish decent and one of my dreams is to actually go there and photograph everything. My birth mother’s maiden name was Kelley (notice the extra ‘e’). For some reason hundreds of years ago the Kelly’s got mad at each other (I’m guessing here) and parted and the new group started adding the extra ‘e’ in their name. Hmm….maybe that explains my ‘sometimes’ cantankerous personality, ya think??? LOL WOW! And you’re a way better woman than me!! Something tells me you’re MUCH younger than I am! How do you manage getting so much done at one time? I’m jealous ‘cause I remember being able to ‘multi-task’ like that too. ;o) |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:11 PM Post #6839059
| Jim, you hit the nail RIGHT on the head with your very astute evaluation of us ‘slug folks’! I couldn’t have said it better myself. ;o) I have to tell ya though, if you drooled over MY blueberry muffins I might have to take a poke at your nose…a HARD poke!! I don’t want NO droolin on my blueberry or any OTHER kind of muffins!!! |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:11 PM Post #6839060
| icanfindroom, I’ve heard there’s a ‘few other’ peeps from the slug thread that sneak over to the mint thread on occasion too. I’ll NEVER tell who they are though!! I’ll have to check out that slug trivia too. It actually does sound very interesting. And that’s what I would have said about what good are slugs, they eat garden waist. Just too bad that they eat the GOOD plants too AND that they leave that trail of YUCK everywhere they go! BLECK! |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:12 PM Post #6839063
| Lynnie, it sounds like you’re a very good daughter. Every mom needs one (I can attest to that!). I completely understand why your mom is ‘attached’ to those bushes. They undoubtedly DO have great sentimental value to her. That’s why my living room is turning into a forest from all the plants I’ve kept from funeral visitations. Sometimes I wish I didn’t WANT to keep them because they really are getting too plentiful. But I can’t resist the ‘tangible’ way they enable me to remember…..
OK…enough seriousness and BACK to the silliness!
Since icanfindroom gave those slug facts and explained that they have two tentacles moving independently, they can see in two directions at once I NOW understand WHY they’re soooooo slow!! They’re confused about where to go!!!
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:12 PM Post #6839064
| Jim you KNOW I’m going to look up that scripture! It’s one I’m not familiar with….. |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:13 PM Post #6839066
| Welcome from me too jjsgramma. OH…..and I’m number 227!!!
And you can see who has the MOST free time today I guess too, right??? IT’S ME!!!
I'll try and check in before bed tonight. have a great rest of the day all!
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:22 PM Post #6839089
| HA! Lynnie, I see you snuck in a post before I added all of mine. I do mine in Word (with two windows open) so I can keep track of what's posted already. That's the only way I can keep track (though if I COULDN'T keep track I'd probably take much less time and space for mine. ;o) Anyway, I'm sorry you're having trouble sleeping lately. I'm a frequent insomniac, though lately I've been doing pretty good. How old are your kiddo's? Being a good mom (sounds like you are for sure), keeping up with everything, being there for EVERY one when they need you, and on and on... it's a wonder on a mental level ANY mom can get a nights sleep, let alone find the time to sleep. You know life goes in cycles and you'll pass through this one and get back on that 'even keal' soon.
I say 'Have another muffin and HECK...have a couple for ME too!! It'l get better, promise' ;o) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 19, 2009
07:25 PM Post #6839098
| i'm not sure. he's going to email me the pic later tho |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 19, 2009
07:40 PM Post #6839163
| iluvcatz, you mean a picture of the slug? |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 19, 2009
08:36 PM Post #6839394
| Yea Lynnie squash borers shiskabob better than slugs they don't slime ya when you put them on the skewer. 3 year old grandson was here today helping and it was hilarious he would crouch down and that little butt crack was a showin just like a old farmer my husband started calling him farmer Dill. His name is Dillon and we call him Dill.
Lynnie Grammy Jo can have the blueberry send me the CHOCOLATE muffins. I don't know how anybody keeps track I must be to new at this |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 19, 2009
09:20 PM Post #6839586
| ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 19, 2009
11:27 PM Post #6840092
| iluvcatz my friend wants your friend to come over for dinner 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 19, 2009
11:34 PM Post #6840110
| Well gang you have been busy.
Lynnie I imagine you are in bed by now and if so I hope you sleep well. I hate to wake up and get back to sleep. All the rest of you guys keep hands off the blueberry muffins. Lynnie baked them especially for me. Probably even used Splenda to keep me out of a dieabetic coma.
On slick okra, other folks called it slick and I being the southern gentleman I am didn't want to disagree. I just think it is delictabally easy to swallow. GrammJo the okra on a salad bar is pickled. A true waste of good okra.
It was enjoyable to go back to the first church. Only a few faces from 28 years ago. A lot of the folks have gone the way we all have to go.
Red-Bugs and Blue-Berries (red bugs and chiggers are the same thing)
July 7 three years ago, I had my second by-pass surgery. A lady in the church, who was going to Florida on a job with her husband, told Joanne she could pick her blueberries. Unfortunately, the doctor had other ideas for us. After we got back home it dawned on her about the berries. She called the ladys mother and asked if any were still on the bushes. "Oh child, they are loaded." Well I wasn't about to be left behind so I put on my shoes (still in pj's) and off we went. Instead of bushes they were trees. Don't guess they had ever been pruned. Sure enough, they were solid blue from the top to the bottom. You could take a limb and just strip it because all were ripe. Well folds, I was just one day out of the hospital and not up to heavy duty pickin but Jo gave me a one pound coffee can and said that wouldn't tear anything loose. I just eased around the perimeter and picked. Little ole Jo was all over those trees. Up in among all the branchs. Man, she thought she was in blueberry heaven. We picked 10 gallons of blueberries. All was right with the world. Blueberries and ice cream, blueberry pie, blueberrys on cereal and of course blueberry muffins were on her mind as she drifted off to sleep. The next morning the bed shaking woke me up. There she sat in all her womanly glory scratching and scratching. She was covered with red bugs from head to foot. I don't think you could poke her with your finger and not hit a bug. Ole Jim just had one or two. Moral of the story: don't go berry pickin unless you've just had heart surgery. Get less red bugs that way.
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
06:23 AM Post #6840692
| Grammyjo the scroll wheel makes me dizzy :)
Thanks for your kind words, my girls are 7 & 9, they're just happy little kids. Right now I'm the sandwich generation, getting a little smooshed by everything but you're right, it goes fast. Gotta enjoy it while it's here. You're right that I worry about everybody too. I have a big big family, so it's a lot of worrying lol
Jim I slept much better last night! Thank you! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
06:25 AM Post #6840695
| iluvcatz sign that one up as the ringleader...do you think he's circus material? |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
06:38 AM Post #6840719
| jjsgramma Farmer Dill sounds like a cutie...is that a squash bug in the picture? That looks kinda crunchy to shishkebob...
ok everybody, I have a shocking confession...I have never actually touched a slug...I had no idea how slimy they are till you guys mentioned it. I should be kicked off the slug thread for sure! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
06:56 AM Post #6840741
| Jim, I have to ask if you talked about slugs at all in your sermon...there's gotta be a lesson in slugs, no? I bet slugs don't get fresh with their moms. Hey both those scripture sound familiar to me...I'm rather proud I recognized them.
Poor Jo! Covered with red bugs!? Eeew! This is why I never go berry picking! I was blueberry picking with the kids & husband once, all I did was swat mosquitos...it doesn't matter how much bug spray I use, I get attacked. My husband considers me his personal mosquito repellent...nobody else gets bit if I'm around. I wonder if it was that orange soap they use in the hospitals that kept the bugs off you...
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iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 20, 2009
07:10 AM Post #6840771
| JJ, what kind of bug is that?
I am going to try to start seadlings in eggcartons next spring. Has anyone else tryed this? |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
07:12 AM Post #6840779
| grammyjo that's a funny story about your ancestors...talk about a family fued...if you ever get the chance to go to Ireland, go! It was beautiful. Rolling green hills, stone walls, very friendly people. We only stayed a few days in Dublin but took a train into the countryside (unaware that sometimes the trains don't come back) and we missed our stop...they don't call stops or anything. A man in our car was smoking up such a cloud that we couldn't see out the window & missed the sign. Ended up in a little town called Rathdrum...we wandered around, there was NOTHING there...the train station was just a platform, there were no people anywhere, it was just pastures & cows...we finally came upon the town center...it was full of antique cars, people dressed in 19th century styles...by now we were just wondering what the heck was going on...we walked down the street, heard "Spectators off the set!" We had wondered into a movie set! We finally found people in the pub (the whole town was in there, kids & all) and when we asked about the train were told there "might" be another one. If the 4:00 didn't come, maybe the 8:00 would. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
07:16 AM Post #6840786
| iluvcatz my kids start seedlings every spring in egg cartons...we have only had somethng to plant once...they're still learning though, you may have better luck. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 20, 2009
07:33 AM Post #6840828
| Lynnie, Did anything sprout? I have problems with the seedling pots because the dry up to fast and I figure the the egg carton would hold moisture. I also thought once the roots start comming out the bottem the whole thing can be planted in my flower boxes.
Your kids and I have somthing in commen. We are all still learning
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
08:18 AM Post #6840944
| yes, usually stuff sprouts, but the kids forget to water & then overwater, my windowsills take a beating. I let them pick whatever seeds they want, one package each, & they each get one egg carton, and usually one seed packet to an egg carton seems to work. I'm sure you'll be much more consistent with your care! The egg carton starts falling apart before planting time, but it's probably because of the overwatering.
Jim I didn't use splenda but my muffin recipe isn't really sweet, gotta let the blueberries speak for themselves. The recipes are old, there is actually a line in that cookbook about making sure to get all the drippings from meat & make a good gravy because it's packed with nutrients...*grin* I LOVE that cookbook... |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 20, 2009
08:23 AM Post #6840954
| lol!! Thats funny. Kids will be kids. I'm planning on keeping the eggcartons in a plastic bucket to keep the mess contained as much as possable. |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 20, 2009
12:56 PM Post #6842059
| Lynnie and Iluvcatz that is a Slug Eater Beetle (no kidding). My little farmerdill has a lot to learn I fear to live up to that name, he was lots of help weeding turned around and he was cutting the flowers off of grandpas tater plants.
Iluvcatz my grandsons class grew plants for mothersday once in eggcartons. They had good results. Used the long trays you put under planters to contain the mess.
Here are my grandkids. The two boys in front with orange in their clothes. JJ is 9 and Dillon will be 3 next month.
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 20, 2009
01:01 PM Post #6842087
| Lynnie this is a squash vine borer 
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
03:28 PM Post #6842670
| eeeew jj that is GROSS! I hope I never see that in my yard! I wish I had looked at your pictures in reverse, first I look at those two cute little boys then those worm things! I'm going to have to look at the cute kids again to get those pale weird grub things out of my mind.
I need to get out & water stuff, I was running errands this morning and I didn't realize I'm OUT OF COFFEE...that's not good! I had to buy my hubby a new bathing suit...his "shrunk in the wash" (she says with a totally straight face). |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 20, 2009
03:46 PM Post #6842778
| Hey guys!
Can't leave you guys for no more than three days and this is what you do! :-) (our internet "broke":-) So, the mint juleps have outposted us?!? The nerve! Hrmp!
Welcome to our English friend :) (just goes to show you that SLUGGERS are MORE popular :)! Oh and welcome to all the new posters :-) forgot where I left off three days ago...
There's a link up top "skip to new" that takes you to where you left off (just discovered it)... |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 20, 2009
07:30 PM Post #6843662
| Just got done watchin "A Haunting in Connecticut"... Said that it was based on a true story... Seriously?!? (I do looove ghost stories:-) Lynnie, I think WE live in a haunted house (or was a haunted house until we ran the ghosts out! :-) We're just too noisy for their taste I guess ^-^!
Oh btw, SLUGS RULE!!! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 20, 2009
09:12 PM Post #6844128
| Chezka, I have seen skip to new a hundred times & paid no attention...geez!
I read about that movie a while ago, some critics think it's a ripoff of Amityville Horror...the article in the paper said the house in Southington had to be guarded from curiosity seekers...don't know if that was true or for publicity or what. How was the movie?
I think slugs and ghosts can co-exist, there have always been both at my mother's. Of course the slugs stay outside.
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 20, 2009
10:57 PM Post #6844622
| Lynnie you are breaking my heart talking about those muffins. I can feel the saliva glands going into high gear. One of the best things about Germany was there pastry. Every little town had at least one bakery and the aromas would dry you wild. The villiage our daughter lived in didn't have a bakery but an open sided van came every day loaded down with fresh bread of all descriptions and lots of pastry. They used a lot of fresh fruit toppings on their sweets. It wasn't overly sweet but it was oh so good. Hungry yet? If not you should try their chocolate. My goodness, I do believe that is the best tasting stuff I ever had it my mouth. It's not milk chocolate like most of ours. Then they have these chocolates that are filled with different kinds of whiskey. Shucks child, you can get stoned out of your goard eating those. Course being a good Baptist and a tee-totaler I didn't try any of those. (Tongue in cheek, eyes rolled toward heave, mumbling a silent prayer for forgiveness) Hungry Yet? Slobbering like a mad dog? Ready to get you pass port renewed? Saving money for the plane ticket? And best of all I didn't see a slug while there. Didn't look to hard either. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 20, 2009
11:22 PM Post #6844717
| Movie was awesome! :-) I actually jumped cos one of the scenes scared the bejeez out of me :)
Hey Jim41! Love pastries AND belgian chocolate! :) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 21, 2009
12:36 AM Post #6844918
| Didn't try any Belgium chocolates. Liked Belgium. They like Americans. Every where you go their is a monument honoring American soldiers who died to set them free. Didn't like Paris at all. Only thing was the Eifel tower is waaaaaaay bigger than I imagined. Wanted to go the top but the line to ride the car up was probably a half mile long. Only other way was to climb up. Took one look at that belly hanging over my belt and knew that wouldn't work. French people wouldn't give you the time of day. Beggars everywhere. All smoking Winston or Marlborough cigrettes at about 5 bucks a pack. No telling what they cost over there now. |
lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 21, 2009
05:25 AM Post #6845302
| grammyjo would i lie to you???????????????
http://www.jekkasherbfarm.com/HerbMint.asp - Cached
Let the circus begin folks.
meet the ring master iluvcatz slug looks good enough to be ring master. all agreed? BUT can he chomp his way through a blueberry muffin whilst comparing?
next we need three little critters who can sliver there way through a bowl of slimy okra. any takers. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 21, 2009
08:26 AM Post #6845576
| lainymay I was cringing as I opened that link, i forgot what you guys were talking about...that looks like a pretty cool plant though (can we say the m-word on this thread?) I was expecting another slimy bug!
Jim my sister & her husband went to France for their honeymoon, she said the same thing. They went to a restaurant & the waiter wouldn't take her order only her husband's & then they fought over the one meal. She said they were both starving & too tired to find another place.Pretty funny! I like dark chocolate best, but any chocolate will do in a pinch. mum's the word on the licqueur filled chocolate... ;) |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 21, 2009
09:50 AM Post #6845830
| lainymae we had a plant looked like the guernsey mint plant .Husband thought it was a weed gave it a GOOD DOSE OF ROUNDUP. My mom use to work in the greenhouse of the store she worked PT in and would bring me the plants that were half dead. I planted everything behind my neighbors garage and let it grow then my sisters and I would dig up what we wanted and give away anything else. I still have alot of plants I don't know name of.
Lynnie I like milk chocolate dark is to bitter for me.
Chezca I love scary movies will have to see that one.
I don't know about anyone else Jim but you made me drool guess I'll have to settle for carrot cake or Hershey bar . My Great-grandfather was from Belgium and the eldery couple I help sometimes are from Germany.Have a heck of a time, sometimes she can only remember the German name for what she wants. But after a game of 50 questions I figure it out. Thats as close as I can come to that side of the world.
NOW if someone can teach those circus slugs to deadhead flowers I'm in. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 21, 2009
11:04 AM Post #6846089
| Oui, oui! Is it true about their teeth too?!? ^-^ (j/k!)
Nah, the closest I've ever been to Europe's watching BBC America :)... Loved GROUND FORCE and got very saaaadddd when Alan Titchmarsh left the show :( Then they totally axed the show! Loved Charlie and the big dude too! Ground Force wasn't "snooty" and pretentious like our garden shows here and the gf team really knows what they're talking about!
Right now my favorite chocolate is the stuff I get from- of all places- Walgreens! It's called "Merci" chocolates... really REALLY GOOD! (thin slivers of different kinds of chocolate [pralines, coffee, dark, mik, caramel, etc) I used to love Ferrero Rocher but the nuts get stuck in my teeth! Then I went on a Lindt phase, but that was too rich (flavor-wise) for me! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 21, 2009
12:30 PM Post #6846393
| Do any of you have a whip you can loan me? I'm want to try to tame my slugs to attack and eat aphids and white flys. Jokers are back on my okra again. Read that Murphy's Oil soap would do the trick. Going to give it a try if it kills the okra. In the middle of a cool snap here in good ole Louisiana. Temp down to 80 degrees. Wish I had put on my warm ups to walk. Hate being cold. .6 of an inch of rain last night and the promise of more tonight.
Lynnie I had always heard of the great French food. I don't know who perpertrated that lie but they need to be horse whipped. We spent the night in Paris at a nice hotel. My son-in-law had military priveliges even though he was a civilian. We could stay for the same price as a good hotel room in the states, at that time about $65. We had spent all day sight seeing and decided to eat at their restaraunt. Bad move. After we go through and paid the enormous bill. We went to the car and broke out the peanut butter and crackers. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 21, 2009
12:46 PM Post #6846450
| Our trip was a once in a life time thing. Son-in-law works for the Pentegon. Audits air force bases. Went to Germany for 3 years and had to stay an extra 2 because of an emergency in the family of the guy who came to replace him. They wrote for us to save our money for the plane tickets and they would take care of everything else. That's when I found out the difference of in season and out of season. We could have gone in Feb. or March for about $450 a piece. The kids would have been in school so couldn't go anywhere. Left June 13 instead. Cost - $1250. Tony had a lot of comp time built up so he took the month off and did all the driving. That is when I found out how small Europe is. We drove to Belgium, Luxemborg, Verdon France, all over Germany. We even drove to Amsterdown and back. Loaded the back of the car with jungle food, cold drinks and a one gallon can of gas. That was in case we got in a place that didn't have a service station that honored military personal. Gas was $1.65 a liter then. Only time we spent the night was 2 nights in the Bavarian Alps and in Paris. A million dollar vacation for a few bucks. Wouldn't take a million for going and wouldn't give 2 cents to go again. Stayed 1 week to long. The kids got sick of us and we got sick of them. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 21, 2009
01:15 PM Post #6846567
| Jim you crack me up...I almost spit my coffee out laughing on that last line...(I'm indulging in 2 of my few vices since I've had kids...coffee & chocolate...wait a minute, chocolate isn't a vice...) When we went to England for our friend's wedding it was more expensive...we took advantage & stayed almost 3 weeks. We were there for our 1st anniversary but funny enough I didn't remember, it was years before I could remember the date...I'm not big on dates...I tell my husband the marriage is more important than the wedding, no? He takes me out to dinner anyway.
Chezka & JJ, I eat dark chocolate chips from the bag..if I run out & get desperate I have been known to break into the baking chocolate, there is no chocolate too bitter for me lol Chezka I have never seen Ground Force...
JJ, that's the whole problem, no? The slugs ARE deadheading everything!
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 21, 2009
01:43 PM Post #6846709
| Does anybody know what slugs contribute to the garden? Are they just plain PESTS?
Lynnie, you should really check out Ground Force... Maybe rent the dvds (if they're availabe) or google it and maybe there are free episodes... They were sooo funny even though they're garden experts (well, at least Alan and Charie are. The big dude's expertise is building stuff like decks and masonry). They had a certain chemistry and plus the show was for a good cause like surprising a loved one or a school or a church or an elderly or disabled person with the coolest garden...
My dream vacation's renting a tricked out RV and driving from CA all the way to NY and visiting as many cities/local towns/tourist attractions in between. And getting a souvenir from each one! I wonder how long that'll take us... Internationally, I'd like to go to Ireland and live there for about a year or so wayy out in the boonies... |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 21, 2009
02:27 PM Post #6846928
| Lynnie I want them to only take the dead flower heads not everything. Took me hours to do it this past weekend I was so far behind. Luckilly my Farmer Dill is an Expert at pulling flowers! I think Ground Force was kinda like our extreme home makeover show except with gardens.
Jim a trucker friend of mine is on his way to Georgia maybe I can talk him into the long way home and he can swing by for truckload of your veggies!!
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 21, 2009
03:56 PM Post #6847274
| JJ can you imagine if janemarierose comes back to this thread to see that our conclusion is to train the slugs to only eat the dead parts lol
Chezka I love gardening my shows! I like Curb Appeal and another one I can't think of the name of...maybe it's on demand...Chezka go for the dream. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 21, 2009
04:06 PM Post #6847318
| I've been wonderin the same thing about janemarierose :) We must've scared her... ^-^
Lynnie, if you love gardening shows you really need to rent/borrow Ground Force. If you're lucky enough to start watching it from the beginning, you'll get hooked! It was so popular that I think Alan even made a garden for one of Prince Charles' charities and the prince was there for I guess the unveiling. And it's not just for people that are well-off. IT's mostly for regular folks like us... Most of their episodes were very touching AND hilarious! (Gee, can you tell I'm a fan?!? lol)
As for the dream, that's a long ways off yet! Maybe WHEN i win the lotto... :-)
Maybe somebody can invent a whistle for slugs to train them (like a doggie whistle) ^-^ |
lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 21, 2009
04:29 PM Post #6847428
| the slugs are comming out in force to join the circus, but which one of you is going to be thier full time keeper. not me.
for those who have made the trip to the uk, what were your impressions of us? |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 21, 2009
06:13 PM Post #6847853
| I LOVE the UK, love the British! You guys are fun loving people. I got stuck in San Juan during Hurricane Hugo, and guess who took me in? The flight crew from British Airways, we were all stuck at the same hotel (no power, no water, no food) and they "took me under their British wings." I was completely alone till they came along. They helped me get home. |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 21, 2009
07:40 PM Post #6848207
| OK you guys, I tried to remember who it was that said they LIKED to squash aphids with their fingers (ICK!!) but I can't. I've only got a few minutes right now but I'd said I would post a couple of photos I took of some aphids in my 'flower patch' last year. So here they are (check out those funky and mysterious 'orange looking' things on the back of the one aphid...doesn't looked like 'poop' or what the ants consider nectar, so what IS it??). Also check out that look of shear contentment on the ants face in the other one!! LOL Oh...and this is a small section of the aphids. I cropped the photos to get a better close-up. There were waaaaayyy more aphids than this on this plant (or weed?).
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 21, 2009
07:42 PM Post #6848214
| Here's the ant one. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 21, 2009
11:05 PM Post #6849317
| My soul, GrammyJo, what kind of camera do you have to get a shot like that? Somewhere in some thread someone said aphids had wings. I've never seen one with wings and certainly couldn't spot a wing in your photo. I do know one thing, those jokers are hard to get rid of. I had them gone for about three days and now they are back. Only thing they get on is my okra. Now their cousins the white flies have joined them. Help!!!
Lynnie, my mom use to wonder what happened to her baking chocolate and the chocolate syrup. Thankfully, I was born looking innocent.
jjs don't know if I'll have a truck load but everything sure has been in abundance. Wife told me today she didn't want to see another cucumber. Wish I had kept a record of everything. Believe it or not guys, but yesterday I picked a Wal Mart bag full of snap beans. How on earth could they pollinate in all this heat.
One gripe before I go, all of a sudden the threads are to wide for my screen. Constantly have to scroll back and forth to see who is writing what. Am I the only one? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 22, 2009
12:02 AM Post #6849573
| Jim, go to "VIEW" on the toolbar menu up top then down to TEXT SIZE (usually right in the middle) and change to a smaller size... That should fix it. (hopefully)
As for aphids, I discovered an all natural homemade spray from one of the posters here. Just two tablespoons of Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Castille soap mixed with about a cup of water then spray on your plants. It actually does kill almost on contact. Tried it with the ants trailing up our peach tree and they went kaput ^-^! The soap's cheap too. I got mine from Amazon.com but some local stores sell it too. I spray the concoction every week just until I get the bugs under control. Plus it don't stink like the storebought pesticides :-) a real plus! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 22, 2009
01:04 AM Post #6849697
| I'll give that a try if I can find it. Going to the big city tomorrow and might be able to. Used Murphy's Oil Soap today but it rained about an hour later. Don't know if it had time to do any good. Was a little afraid of it because of the oil. I know herbisidal oils will kill your plants in our heat. Today for us was really cool, only 80. Been a 100 for the past month.
Is that a portrait of you on your post. Sure a cute little thing. With those eyes you could be from the south.
Wifes threating to shoot me if I stay up late tonight so had better go. |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 22, 2009
03:35 AM Post #6849804
| Jim, I’d NEVER eat ‘pickled okra’!! Just the thought makes me gag. I’ve tried fried but ‘no thanks’. My camera is a Canon Power Shot S5 IS, 8 meg. I want a different one though because as good as this one is I want one I can change lenses on and one with way more megs so I can get MUCH higher detailed macros. I’m somewhat of a photography nut (an amateur though). I actually did quite a bit to them in my software since when I took the photos I use the ‘vivid’ setting. They ended up way too color saturated so I had to tone them down a lot and I then added the magnification. I HOPE when more peeps check back in that someone can tell us what those orange thingies are. I’m thinking it’s the same as the clear droplet (on the aphid near that one), which is just 'fluid'. Poor Jo when she had the chiggers. They’re horrible!
Lynnie, your kiddo’s have a GOOD mom! And of course we mom’s worry, goes with the territory. But let’s NOT forget about GUILT! I mean that’s the major ‘gift’ we get when we become moms (and for the rest of our lives too ;o) Girl, it’ll be a million years at least before I’ll touch a slug!! I’ve stepped on them and that was enough to almost make me upchuck! What a FUNNY story about your trip!! I mean... what were your chances of accidentally walking into a scene being filmed in IRELAND??? Too funny! I would truly love to go there but I seriously doubt I’ll ever get to. And my hubby is a worse home body that I am.
Chezca, I didn’t know about that link you told Jim about either. I’ll definitely check it out. I think I might have seen that movie you spoke about too. Do you watch ‘Ghost Hunters’? There’s a new one on tonight (Wed.)
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 22, 2009
03:41 AM Post #6849807
| COOL! ‘Skip to new’ worked like a charm. yeah!
Jim…pastry and chocolate?...I’M THERE!! By the way Jim, are you keeping up with the mint thread? I haven’t had a CHANCE to post in about 3 days. Know what we could do?...Let’s fill paper bags FULL of slugs, put them on their porches and light them, then knock on their doors and yell FIRE! We can hide behind a bush and watch the fun! LOL
I’ve never been to France or up the Eiffel Tower but I have been in the ‘crown’ of the Statue of Liberty and looked out those tiny little windows and also to the top of the Empire State bldg, both when I was 10. I can still remember both quite vividly too, especially that narrow spiral staircase inside the Statue of Liberty. Been to the top of the Sears Tower too (which has a new name now I heard). Oh, I also WALKED all the way up the Washington Monument with my dad and brother that same Summer. Needless to say we took the stairs back down. So you can see I HAVE been high before. Uhh….let me rephrase that……
jjsgramma, your grandsons are DOLLS! My oldest granddaughter will be 8 in Nov. We have 3 other grkids too, the youngest (a boy) will be two this year. And sorry dear but your ‘squash vine borers’ are just too BORING (get it….borers are boring??) LOL I crack myself up! ;o)
I’ll be checking out that link you added too. I did peek and I loved what I saw. Buddleia mint?..how darling! And the ‘Eau de’ is very pretty too (love that pink picotee). I think I’ll be ordering MANY more mints for next Spring. Thanks!
And you know what they say Jim ‘familiarity breeds contempt’, especially on vacations!
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 22, 2009
03:45 AM Post #6849809
| OK…can’t possibly catch up with ALL these posts so let me just say DARK CHOCOLATE RULES! Yes, Lynnie, I TOO have eaten dark chocolate morsels and they taste fine to me. ;o) (I love to put two on my tongue and stick the flat sides together while they melt in my mouth.) Oh dear…..it’s such a burden being so talented…… LOL I had to laugh about your ‘desperation’ and eating baking chocolate. I did the same thing about 6 mos ago and I was like WHOA…. way too bitter for me, and I LIKE bitter chocolate! It's great that since they've discovered the health benefits of dark they've starting using it to coat stuff and not just use milk choco. all the time.
I really lucked out this year with the aphids. I have a huge chartreuse Spirea and last year it was just covered with them. It was horrible. This year I noticed it was covered with what I believed to be lacewing ‘lions’ (the nymphs?). And they cleaned that whole shrub. They’re voracious aphid eaters.
Chezca I’m certainly going to try the Dr. Bronner’s Pep. Cast. soap mixture. Does it just smell minty or does it have actual mint oil in it? If it has no oil I might put a couple of drops in it. I don’t think that small amount would hurt during the summer. Hope not anyway!
See ya guys. I’m off for the night to dream of………..SLUGS!
(Oh please………..NOT THOSE!!!!) ;o)
Oh Jim... I meant to tell you, YES aphids can have wings. I've seen many with them.
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lainymay
BEDFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
July 22, 2009
04:18 AM Post #6849827
| the aphids that are rampaging everywhere in our garden at the moment are green, they are eating the plants to bits. then we have the little red beetles with yellow spots on thier backs ( aint got a clue what they are called but anyway the have taken a liking to lillys.
how to get rid of them???????????? what is a girl to do?????????
back to mint (oh no ) here are some more popular ones in the uk.
http://herbs.lovetoknow.com/Slideshow:Types_of_Mint~9
have tried most of these.some are very attractive to grow just for the scent and flowers. just view the site and the pictures are woth a look just press next at bottom of screen.
whats this got to do with slugs??
who am i???
who are you???
where am i??? im off for a good old english cuppa. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 22, 2009
08:08 AM Post #6850059
| Grammyjo those are some awesome pictures...my aphids are green too Lainymay...they look so innocuous when i first saw them I didn't know if they were good or bad...I'm a beginner, remember! lol
we got downpours yesterday, I was glad because I never finished watering everything the day before, and it kept me inside and now my house is spotless. I'm hoping it washed away the paint in my mother's yard...my sister stopped over when we were painting the arbor & she grabbed a brush to help, stuck her foot in the paint can & knocked it over. There was a big puddle of paint my mother wanted me to "dig it up." lol I am not a professional!
Jim I meant to ask what is jungle food?
Chezka is Ground Force a cable show? I don't have any pay stations. |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 22, 2009
10:50 AM Post #6850647
| Hey everyone just FYI if interested I found a site that has a lot of different homemade remedies for insects and fungicides. Remember I am about as computer illiterate as I am a gardener. Hope this works. Hope this is allowed if not SORRY
http://www.pharmerphil.proboards.com
click on gardening 101 then scroll down to sub catagories click on Homemade remedies
Probably an easier way but I don't know it |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 22, 2009
10:55 AM Post #6850671
| They also say to soak your seeds in peroxide before planting. Suppose to help prevent fungus. I don't plant seeds so I wouldn't know going it try with my pumpkins next year though. I know thats no help for this year |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 22, 2009
11:00 AM Post #6850686
| Lynnie, GroundForce was on BBC America. Don't know where the reruns are shown if any. YouTube has SOME free episodes :) Amazon.com has the "Best of Ground Force" dvd for $6!
Jim, what portrait? (or were you talkin to grammy or gramma? ^-^
Grammy, I USED to watch GH, even TiVoed it. BUT they've gotten sooo commercialized that I stopped watchin it... It's like Mario Brothers meet Ghostbusters ^-^!
Btw, I meant: Menu bar on your Explorer window (not DG's interface). You know, where "File", "Edit", "View". etcetera etcetera. Click VIEW and look for TEXT SIZES then just change to a smaller text size... Goodluck y'all!
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 22, 2009
11:03 AM Post #6850699
| Ooh I just looked at my profile, Jim! I'd forgotten about THAT portrait! And YES, that's li'l ole me ;-)! It's been soo long since that photo was taken, I probably gained a few scales here an thar! ... |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 22, 2009
02:48 PM Post #6851630
| Chezca, now I'm going to have to find out where the profiles are. Been wondering what all of you looked like. I was talking about all the pretty little faces you put on your comments.
jjs, I had never heard of soaking you seed in peroxide. Might give it a try. Always soak my okra seed in clorox for thirty minutes before planting. Softens up that hard seed so it will germinate quicker.
Lynnie, what we always called jungle food, is food you can easily transport, that won't spoil. Vienna sausage, beenie weenies, pork and beans, crackers, potted meat, deviled ham, hoop cheese, apples, oranges and the like. Pipe liners call it jungle food and when we were picking cotton or combining beans that's what we called it as well. Probably a lot of other names folks call it by.
lainymay, be careful of disposing of those beetles you are talking about. I carried a little speckled varmint attached to a leaf and a speckled little beetle looking thing to my pastor who just happens to be a bug expert. He scouts cotton and other crops for bugs for the farmers. He told me the one attached to the leaf was the larva of a lady bug and the other fierce looking rascal was the next stage of a lady bug. That might be what you have and if so they are feeding on the aphids.
Thanks Grammy. I read that on the thread but have never seen the wings. Still haven't. Taking my magnifying glass to the garden this afternoon. |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 22, 2009
04:22 PM Post #6851964
| Oh NO I found a slug in my pumpkins as if borers weren't enough.
And I have a pumpkin out there the size of one of those little round seedless watermelons
Friend of my husband told him they were doomed. If I have to bottle feed those suckers I'll prove him WRONG.
And if that isn't enough the dog decided to play tag with a wasp. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 22, 2009
05:56 PM Post #6852297
| ATTENTION! ATTENTION! SLUG ALERT! CODE:AMBER I REPEAT CODE:AMBER
The following is an on site report from one of our SLUG watchdogs. Come in Jim41.
Yes, I am here although my heart is racing. I have just had the shock of my life. The shock of my life.
Calm down Jim41 and give us the report.
Well it happened like this, me and the Mrs. was taking our morning walk. She was fresh and perky as could be. Enough to make you sick.
Stick to the point Jim41.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Anyway, we was walking along, and I was trying to get a look at my feet to see if my shoes were tied, but all I could see was my toes. Blousey old shirt, know my belly ain't that big.
JIM !!!!
Excuse me. Anyway my slug alert began to clang like all get out. I realized then that I was hearing a ding occasionally but it just hadn't registered. Had stayed up to late last night on Dave's Gardening. Anyhow, you ain't never heared such a clamor. Immediate, my investigative senses went on high alert. Right there in the middle of the road was the most horrible sight I ever seen in all my born days.
WHAT JIM? WHAT?
Slug trails! I don't mean A slug trail. I mean SLUG TRAILS! Not squad or platoon size or regimental size, I'm a talking about Divisional Size. Lordy, it's enough to scare you to death. Thousands of trail nearly touching each other. Looked like they were crawling in formation. Off on either side you could see where the scouts were keeping an eye on the flanks. Never have I seen something like this. It's like some super slug has organized them and they are moving like an army. Worse than that if my trailing ability is working right, they are headed for my garden. Mine I say.
Calm down, Jim.
Brother, there ain't no calming down for me. I am on high alert. And if this thing is nation wide we are in TROUBLE. Probably won't be no Dave's for me tonight. I got a dump truck full of salt on the way. If they don't slime me to death, I'm gonna salt them to death.
Thanks Jim41 for that report. Well folks you have heard it right from the horse's mouth. Errr! I think that was the end he was talking from. Over and out. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 22, 2009
08:17 PM Post #6852759
| JJ that is funny! tag with a wasp, well not for your dog |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 22, 2009
09:28 PM Post #6853084
| Jim you are too funny...did you have some of them chocolates with liquer left over from germany? maybe their going to lainymay's slug training camp... |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 22, 2009
09:51 PM Post #6853180
| All jokes aside, this morning while we were walking I saw a place on the asphalt road that was one solid slug track. It was probably 10 feet wide and you would have been hard put to put your finger down and not touch one. I've never seen anything like it before. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 22, 2009
09:53 PM Post #6853186
| Jim41, I almost fell outta my seat! ^-^ ROTFLOL! Bravah!
Lynnie, I think he ate his fermented slug eating cantaloupes! :-) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 22, 2009
10:33 PM Post #6853387
| Hey guys, some people have it and some don't. I have it. Just don't know what it is. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 22, 2009
10:37 PM Post #6853409
| A moment of truth: I pastored at my first church for seventeen years. I think the only reason they kept me that long was because they were trying to figure me out. Guess what? They never succeeded. Course it helped that I am the "Champion Neck Hugger of All Time." |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 23, 2009
05:07 AM Post #6854191
| HEY...LOOK AT THE TIME...ONLY 4:05AM AND HERE I SIT!!! And I'm sooooooo glad I did because I NEEDED that laugh (or those LAUGHS) Mr. Jim!! HA!! HA!! (snort snort) LOLOLOL!!!!!
(Seriously though Jim...NO more muffins for you. The sugar is getting to your brain!!)
I really am going to bed (about time don'tcha think??) but wanted to drop a couple of hints before I do. Lynnie said it was pouring rain and then I remembered that I have often sprayed off aphids with the hose. Of course it doesn't kill them but it WILL knock them off and they might not climb up the same plant! And after knocking them off you might could just stomp around the plants and squash them too! (Try and do this when your neighbors AREN'T looking out their windows.) ;o)
jjsgramma, another thought I had (don't know if I've actually read this or not, maybe though...) try putting baby powder on your pumpkins (I’d use quite a bit), repeat if it rains. I don't think it would hurt them and it MIGHT keep the slugs off. The powder is just tiny crystals of talc and slugs wouldn’t like that.
chezka, I still watch GHs. They find more 'things' now and I don't think they're too commercial. You do…..REALLY?? Of course I have a different take on 'ghosts' than many peeps. But it's still entertaining and I'm into 'spiritual' stuff.
lainymay, Jim's right about being careful about snuffing out some bugs. Remember I talked about my Spirea (think I talked about it in this thread) and how covered it was with aphids last year and this year it had tons of Lacewing 'babies' on it. They're called 'lions' and so are those 'babies' of Ladybugs (aren’t they actually called nymphs?..can't remember). Anyway they LOVE aphids!!! They sure made my Spirea squeeky clean! So find out what they are before you send them to bug heaven (or the 'other' place! ;o)
OK...nite all!
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 23, 2009
07:33 AM Post #6854325
| ok, Jim, what's a neck hugger? Is that when somebody wraps their arms around your neck real tight & won't let go? Cuz I think my kids might have you on that one..
I have another slug confession...I wouldn't know a slug trail if i saw one...I have never noticed one. The baby slugs I had were in the grass. For beginner's gardening homework, I'll try to find a slug trail. I feel a little slug ignorant.
Chezka & Grammyjo, I have watched Ghosthunters a few times, every time i think I should send them to my mother's.
JJ, the other day my husband comes outside to find me with my cell phone in hand, crawling along my shrubs...'what are you doing?' he asks me. I'm taking pictures of these beetles so I can post them on the forum & look them up & see what they are' He then tells me my cell phone has no memory card. In between pics I was answering the phone. One of the beetles was red with black spots but had a segmented body...I wanted the pic because I had never seen it before. I used to have tons of ladybugs, I don't know what happened to them.
But between me whacking my shrubs with my shoe every time I see a japanese beetle, then crawling around with my cell phone, the neighbors must think I'm nuts. Can you imagine if I started powdering them? |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 23, 2009
03:28 PM Post #6856134
| Lynnie, Some of the cell phones will plug into your computer. I have to admit I don't know how, but my son saves pic to the phone then has a cord that plugs into the phone and the computer to download the pics. Another confession, I have never seen a slug trail either. Slugs yes but the trail no.
Grammy,( That sounds odd coming from me) I just might try the baby powder. Can't hurt. My husband says I'm obsessed just buy a darn pumpkin. His fault he knows better than to let someone tell me' it won't work or can't be done '. That's why we have Lilies growing out of the gravel in the driveway.
Jim I love your stories if you decide to give up preaching you would make a
GREAT kid sitter.
Gotta go have half the neighorhood kids in the pool and the yard needs mowed. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 23, 2009
10:27 PM Post #6857663
| Hey Guys, I missed all of you last night. Went to bed early for me. Had to up at 5:30 a.m. to get the hospital for surgery of one of my group. Couldn't get to sleep and ended up in front of the computer to 4:30. Thank God I am so young and vibrant and energy filled. I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'm trying to sell, too. Anyone interested? I'm glad you enjoyed the story. It was fun to write. I suppose by now all have figured out that I am a nut case.
Lynnie, sweetie, a neck hugger is just one that wraps his arm around someone, lays his cheek next to hers and squeezes as hard as allowed. I'm straight but I'll hug the men too, if they'll stand for it. The only problem I have about the huggin is my wife. "Tell the women to quit getting make-up all over your coat. It is to expensive to have it cleaned every week." I promise, those are words right out of her mouth. Jealous little rascal, huh.
Lynnie, you can see what kind of imagination I have, the picture of you down on your knees with a cell phone, really had me rolling. The wife has decided this must be a dirty site, for some reason. The baby powder is to funny for words.
Speaking of pictures, I joined Dave's last night so I could hunt up your pictures. Don't know if I got in the right place or not. Didn't find anyone I knew except for GrammyJo. Not through looking yet.
Got to looking around on the various forums after I joined up and it didn't take me long to discover that those guys on the members only forums are way to serious for me. Even found them discussing the scientific aspects of a post I had made about tomatoes. Goooolllly! What a can of worms I opened. They had decided that what I had written about spraying tomatoes with milk wouldn't work. Up till then I had kept silent, I just had to add that it might not work but had seen and eaten the result. Got a feeling I'll hear back from them.
Slug tracks and snail tracks look exactly the same, you have to find them on the road or under the carport, any paved surface. Catch the sunlight at an angle and you can see the dried slime trails they leave behind. They apparently put down a laver of slime as they crawl to cut down on friction. Goodness, I sound just like those yahoos on the other threads.
Probably won't here from me again tonight. Told Jo I'm taking sleeping pill tonight and going to catch up on some rest.
Love you all,
Jim |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 23, 2009
10:38 PM Post #6857701
| Jim41, I am just now trying to catch up on this thread and wow you guy's are keeping this one going;-) Still enjoying your storie's and I just loved the picture of your Daylily. Beautiful! I will through in a pic or two soon as well.
Hug's and "good nite.. don't let the bed bug's bite;-)"
Rachel |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 23, 2009
10:57 PM Post #6857770
| Mimosa bloom's and butterflie's.
Rachel
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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eleighe
Oak Bluffs, MA
July 23, 2009
11:14 PM Post #6857829
| This summer has been very WET on Martha's Vineyard. And even when if it has not been raining it's been overcast.
End result seems to be an over population of slugs. Slugs that come out at night crawl across my deck and up my sliding glass doors twenty -thirty or more. Any thoughts on how to deal with this??? We live in a wooded area popular with birds, squirrels, rabbits , skunks, raccoon, and deer so poison is not a good solution.
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 23, 2009
11:19 PM Post #6857850
| Sure;-) Beer and Sluggo. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 23, 2009
11:28 PM Post #6857882
| DRINK the beer and batter em slugs! ^-^ |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 23, 2009
11:33 PM Post #6857905
| Chezca, you gave me a good laugh!
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 24, 2009
06:47 AM Post #6858443
| Rachel that picture is beautiful! I want to plant a mimosa tree.
JJ my OLD cell phone had a memory card AND a cord for the computer...this one is new. Every time I get used to a phone, my hubby buys me a new one & I have to start all over. And I didn't just use the camera because it's memory card is full & I don't know how to delete pictures off it lol My husband doesn't get me the phone accessories until he knows I like the phone, but I've never returned one, I'm not that picky if I can call & answer it I don't care about fancy features. Until I'm crawling around shrubs.
Chezka & Grammyjo, we brought the kids to an amusement park yesterday & there was a "haunted house" and when I walked in I yelled 'oh my God!' and the girl came running...the wallpaper was the same wallpaper in my mother's kitchen! All 4 of us were cracking up. My husband took pics of it with HIS cell phone (he gets all the accessories...he's a computer geek & likes his gadgets). If you ask any of us which room is the spookiest at my mother's, you'll get different answers. Some say the dining room. Some say the 3rd floor...some say the yellow bedroom. Nobody picks the kitchen. My mother was in a car accident years ago & we all took turns staying over...it was so creepy I vowed NEVER AGAIN. I'd make her come to my house. Even if she were in traction.
Jim that reminds me of a story about a boy who won a pumpkin growing contest with a "milk fed" pumpkin. Don't know of anybody who ever tried that (pumpkins weren't growing in every yard in Boston) but it was something I always wanted to try. And life is too short to be so serious, no? That's why I don't golf. Those people do NOT look like they're having fun. tell Jo we on the slug forum have been sniffing too much Sluggo and we're hanging about waiting for some mater gravy & cat head biscuits. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
11:18 AM Post #6859285
| That's funny, Lynnie ^-^! Rachel, your tree is gorgeous! I never appreciated mimosa trees before just because they grew like weeds in my hometown so there is no actual "demand" for them way back when... Now is a different story- all that dang construction just about annihilated every signle one of em thangs :-(...
Oh and same with my parents' house, nobody would be caught dead mucking around upstairs after 12 noon... Seriously! My aunts and uncles said that it's like you were never really alone upstairs (even if you were just the only one there), they always felt like someone's watching them or is right in the same room with them... . Me, I was the "young'un" so I didn't KNOW about these things cos they only told me years later when I had the fortunate wisdom to start getting spooked... I betcha that's why it always fell on me to "go get this and go get that upstairs, will ya?" :-) I just always thought that grown-ups were just plain lazy^-^! But then again, they DID give me the biggest (and I thought COOLEST) room in the house for my FIRST ever grownup bedroom... And where was it (you may ask)? Upstairs. (grown-ups! Hrmph!)
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 24, 2009
11:55 AM Post #6859479
| Chezka, that's how my mother's is! You're NOT alone...it's downright freak you out creepy. I don't care what time it is, they're pressing in on you. My sister says (Jim cover your eyes) Satan lives in the dining room lol (doesn't seem right talking light of Satan in front of a pastor). Everybody in the family has had big loud disagreements about which room is more creepy. The house is big and bright & clean as a whistle, it's not like it's covered with cobwebs & old velvet furniture, she redecorates every 10 years...(except that wallpaper they put up 36 years ago lol) One of my friends stayed over one night, in the yellow room. She asked me who else stayed in there...I said nobody, you were alone. She insisted she heard somebody in the room with her...got a little worked up. My mother would ask for something upstairs & we'd all look at each other lol |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
12:41 PM Post #6859694
| ^-^! SLUGS AND ghosts!!!! What more can you ask for?!?
"NOBODY" bothered me much upstairs :-)... I was around, I'd say, 10 or 11 yrs old when I reigned over our upstairs (everybody else occupied all the downstairs bedrooms, even my pathetic brothers). I loved it up there cos I gots free reign!^-^ That's also where I started with "gardening" (if you can call it that!)... :
I was lookin out of my bedroom window one day and saw my mom unloading her "finds" from a local nursery. She left one small pot and forgot all about. I asked her if I could have it so she said yes. I took it up to my room and rigged my sister's discarded IV drip contraption with water and stuck it to the plant! (I was just curious to see if it would work since the IV drip worked on my sister when she got dehydrated, I was hoping same would apply to my plant! :-) Well, my dad visited me in MY domain (I guess I sorta became a bit of a hermit) one day and saw what I've done to the plant... I thought I was in big doodoo because I wasn't supposed to play with needles! He stared at it for a long time and looked at me and asked "did you do this?" I said yes and explained to him a-matter-of-factly, my hypothesis, the SCIENCE behind it! (left the part out where i thought it would just be plain COOL to stick an IV drip to a plant) Well my dad thought he got himself a genius daughter :-)...
My little experiment lived for about 2 months. It died because one of my brothers knocked it over and mangled the plant "accidentaly"... |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 24, 2009
12:49 PM Post #6859718
| Stumbled on this thread and have been grinning like crazy! And I'm at work!!! You guys are hilarious! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
01:04 PM Post #6859769
| Welcom Cat6! Ya have to read the thread from the beginning (I know! Who has THAT time huh!) to BEGIN to understand how our brains work :-) ^-^...
SLUGS RULE! BOOYAH! ^-^ |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 24, 2009
02:04 PM Post #6859999
| Believe it or not, I did! (In between working of course!) Already sent an email to Jim asking for and receiving his recipes too! :-) Thanks again Jim |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
02:06 PM Post #6860006
| HOLY COW! Ya did?!? Well then, my hat's off to ya ^-^! |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 24, 2009
02:07 PM Post #6860011
| Hey what can I say, it was a slow morning! :-) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 24, 2009
02:19 PM Post #6860055
| Morning or evening or what ever. Remember I said I was going to take an ambien at 9 and go to bed? Well at 9:30 I did exactly that little thing. Took my night medicine and vitamins, took to muscle relaxers the doc had perscribed for a pulled muscle in my back and took an ambien. Just as I was putting the bottle back in the cabinet, sweet thing came in, "oh no, you didn't take one of those did you." Yep, says I. "I had already put one in your medicine." Guess what gang? I SLEPT GOOD LAST NIGHT.
As for me I don't believe in ghosts. Only person I ever heard of that saw and talked to a real ghost was King Saul. He had gone to the Witch of Endor to try to get in touch with The Prophet Samuel. When Samuel appeared it scared the heck out of her. First time to ever conjure up the real thing. Satan, I believe in. Demons I believe in. Ghosts of people who died. Nope. When your dead you are gone, one place or the other. If there is a presence in those places it is demonic and don't play around with it. I don't watch the show you guys are talking about because those guys are messing with something they know nothing about.
Cats6 we are so glad to have you with us. This is the most fun place to be on Dave's.
Tonight I'm searching up the rest of you girls photos so better post your best shot or delete. Jim41 is determined to see what his friends look like. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 24, 2009
02:22 PM Post #6860065
| Cat6, next slow day you have email me for my pics. Good way to pass a morning. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 24, 2009
02:28 PM Post #6860085
| Pics of what Jim? If there are very many or any size at all, I need to send you my yahoo. Work email doesn't take large attachments. I loved the cartoons and especially the MI slug! I used to have them bad in the house I moved from. There was an old sistren cover by the back door, and at night it was covered with the slimy little things. Nasty! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
02:29 PM Post #6860090
| ok, Jim. You win... Here's "I" ^-^ 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
02:30 PM Post #6860093
| Here's me again after too many treats: 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 24, 2009
02:36 PM Post #6860119
| Awwwww..how cute! You're adorable Chez!!!! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
02:44 PM Post #6860152
| Hehe... I have a confession to make: that's really not me. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 24, 2009
03:04 PM Post #6860225
| You're kidding! I never would have guessed! :-)
Is the mint thread still ahead of you guys? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
03:29 PM Post #6860310
| they're yonder slippin away in the horizon eating our slugtrails... ^-^ |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 24, 2009
03:36 PM Post #6860335
| Anyone in here ever step on a slug, barefooted???? I did one night when I went out to feed the cats. It was dark and I couldn't see. Kind of dumb to be going out barefooted anyway, but it took alot of scrubbing to make the bottom of my foot feel clean again! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 24, 2009
07:00 PM Post #6861065
| That is a cute picture Chezca. Pretty little kitty.
I've never stepped on a slug barefooted Cat6 but when I was a kid the chickens ran loose around the place. Try getting that out from between your toes.
The pics I was talking about are Kodak Share. You just have to go there to view. No attachments. I just have to send you an invitation to get into the web site. What else is involved I don't know. Just go look, I guess. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 24, 2009
07:21 PM Post #6861151
| Ok Jim, how do we get THE invitation?
Cat6, my sil stepped on one ginormous SLUG a few months back while she was getting her laundry from the garage, and yes, barefoot. I think the whole county heard her scream and yell profanities for a good ten minutes and another 30 minutes for her face to go back to its natural color... She was beet red and I swear ya could see steam risin from her ears! ^-^ I kept telling her to wear her flipflops (if not for the slugs, at least for the pincher bugs that are notorious that time of the year). Well, she got SLUGGED :-) and we were hysterically laughin our butts off while she redirected her anger towards us! hehehehe... |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 24, 2009
09:57 PM Post #6861811
| Thank's Chezca and Lynnie for the compliment on the pic. I like the Mimosa's although some do consider them a noxious tree "weed" and they can be.
Forgot to wish eleighe a hardy welcome to this thread last night and sending a welcome to you too cat64129;-) I have been getting some good laugh's as well and yes I have stepped on those slug's/snail's as well while barefoot. By the way...any of you all here get the orange slug's?
iluvcatz, I have alway's been an owner of a cat or two or three or...etc. I cannot imagine my life without one.
Rachel
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 24, 2009
09:57 PM Post #6861814
| Jim I told you to cover your eyes! I don't believe in ghosts either! All I know is don't stay at mother's alone...or go upstairs alone...or be in the house alone...you can stay in the kitchen, it has 5 doors to run out of...and anybody who knows me would never in a million years think for a minute that I believe in ghosts...I'm ridiculously practical, brave to the point of stupid, and do not believe in superstition...everything can be explained with science & logic. I'm Dr Spock with smaller ears. :)
Also you must have slept real good with those muscle relaxers & 2 ambien...good Lord!
Welcome Cat! Can I call you Cat those numbers are just too long. We're not crazy we just need biscuits...
Chezka, that's exactly how I pictured you! *grin*
I want to ask why your sister needed IV fluids at home like that but I'm afraid we'll go off topic...nah, that would never happen...
and ...uh...slugs need fluid too...
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 24, 2009
10:03 PM Post #6861839
| eleighe, welcome from me too, I'm sorry, I was horrified at the thought of seeing so many slugs on a slider and put it out of my head. I don't think the rain is going to let up! I bet September will be really nice & dry. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 24, 2009
11:26 PM Post #6862109
| Hey Ya'll, I used to smoke 5 packs of Marlboroughs a day. This is way more addictive. My wife is jealous of all of you or the lap top. Oh well.
Chezca, I can only imagine the yell's and red face. Where's the camera when you need it? Just email me jimgoodman1@hotmail.com for the invitation to see the pics.
Lynnie, I promise I covered my face but I peeked through my fingers.
Noticed none of you guys commented on bare where the chickens run. Don't blame you. Know how modest you all are.
Well gang, it wasn't blueberry muffins or chocolate chip cookies but...
Made a late afternoon visit, surprising how come the local seafood restraunt was in such close proximity. Gosh, we were right at it and had not eaten since a slice of cantalope at noon, so twist my arm, I stopped. Didn't want Jo to have to go home and fix supper. I was only thinking of her and this was buffett night. Geez. So I stopped and ate light meal.
The bowl of chicken and sausage gumbo was great. It was so good I decided to try some of the fried frog legs. Since I still had room on my plate I just naturally had to get some of those butterfly shrimp. Naturally I had to have some veggies, so I helped myself to a few cheese filled jalepeno peppers. Guess what was sitting right by them? the hushpuppies and chicken livers. The stuffed crab and fried crab and catfish looked good but I used my will power and left them alone. Anyhow, I was saving room for soft ice cream laced with strawberries and chocolate syrup. Wouldn't you know the ice cream machine was broke and I just had to settle for strawberries and chocolate syrup.
I just had to share.
Oh yeah, before I laid down last night, after I had taken the two ambien and two muscle relaxers, I asked the Good Lord, if He was intending on taking me home last night to please postpone it for one night so Jo wouldn't feel guilty about puttin an ambien in my meds. So if you don't hear form me tomorrow you'll know what happened. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 25, 2009
01:21 AM Post #6862396
| JeezMaryPoppins Jim! 2 ambiens?!? You know they make you do things that you don;t know you;re doin right? Like sleep walkin, sleep drivin, sleep eatin (the buffet gave it away), etcetera etcetera! Let's hope sleep exercisin's one of them! ^-^ (Btw, is Winn Parish familiar to you?)
Well my peeps, July's almost over yet it feels like Fall here in the Bay Area... Totally bums me out :-( It was like 65 degrees today! Grrrrrr! The plants and SLUGS must be lovin it tho... Oh well... |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 25, 2009
04:18 AM Post #6862574
| AARG!!! It soooooooo late again and I can't stay to write much!! I've GOT to get to my 'SlugPals' waaaay earlier for now on! It takes 30 mins to read the new posts.
Anyway, yes!...welcome eleighe and cat64129! I can't remember exactly when 'back there' I joined the 'slug madness' but it's a BLAST! I want to write a lot but I just can't so I'll squeeze in a little before bed...
Jim, I was going to say exactly the same thing tonight about 'no ghosts' too. You beat me to it (as is only fitting since you're the pastor here ;o). I DO watch Ghost Hunters but NOT because I believe they're dealing with the spirits of dead people. But it intrigues to see what ways the enemy will work to fool people.
I get Mimosa seedlings all over my yard. The people who used to live next door had one and of course it sent seeds everywhere. I don't have many of them anymore though since they cut their tree down and I've gotten rid of 90% of the seedlings. But...I have ONE more at least and I'd like to transplant it into a huge pot and keep it very small. I don't know if it would survive Winter that way though. Guess I could move it into the garage like I do my rose standard and a few other plants.
LOVE the kitties too! TOO CUTE! I WOVE the kitty cats. My other two went to kitty heaven years ago and now I only have one (Rocky). Jim I can't BELIEVE you took so much sleep meds! Thank goodness you WOKE UP! LOL Be more careful brother. That stuff isn't to be fooled around with you know. ;o)
Darn...I've GOT to sign off for tonight. I have a FULL day tomorrow and then its Trivia night at our church. I can hardly wait. We 'oldsters' (4 couples) will be at one table and we're planning to beat the socks off all those know it all youngins! LOL
Later ya’ll
;o)
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 25, 2009
11:50 AM Post #6863380
| Hey Lynnie, I can tell your not superstious. I'm not either. It just makes sense not to walk under a ladder and to turn your cap around three times if a black cat crosses you path. Geez, doesn't everyone do that.
Chezca, I know where Winn Parish is. The only thing is you can't get there from where I live. You have to go somewhere else to start. Is that where your sister lives? Winn isn't to far from Caldwell, where I pastored for so many years. Probably about 85 miles from Delhi. We used to go there and sing back in the 70's when our quartet was going strong. Use to know several people there but they have all died off.
And yeah, I did sleep good. First time in a long time I got ten hours sleep. Can't afford to do that again, liked to worked myself to death the next day. I'm to old to have that kind of energy. "Sleep eating," nah, I remember every bite. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 25, 2009
12:28 PM Post #6863502
| You should really NOT take two ambiens with all your other meds! You're scaring us! My dad takes about a handful of pills after every meal and he hates it! He'd rather get a bunch of shots instead of taking those danged pills! ^-^
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 25, 2009
02:16 PM Post #6863874
| oh my goodness, I meant Spock the Vulcan, not Dr Spock the baby doctor! All that rain turned my brain to mush!
Jim my mother taught me not to notice bare feet & chicken droppings, even if I'm standing in it *grin*
That reminds me of a funny story...my sister was graduating high school & my mother wanted a bunch of us to go out to dinner to celebrate...she was kind of emotional about #7 going off to college. She didn't plan ahead far enough & my sister couldn't go, she had to be at the graduation hours early. So mom wasn't too happy. Then she sent me out for a card from her to give my sister. So a couple of sisters, my sister in law, and my parents head out to dinner, kind of running late because a bunch of girls are not quick with hair & makeup. So we're in the doghouse already. then she asks for the card...it says "Congratulations" on the front & on the inside is a caveman couple wearing fake noses & glasses & says "From the Original Fun Couple!" Mother was NOT amused. My sisters are busting a gut trying not to laugh, my father takes the card, he laughs, so now he's in the doghouse...I'm going to hear about this card later, I can just tell. Yes, looking back I can see that wasn't what mom had in mind, but when I bought it I thought it was hysterical. So we get to the restaurant, mom hissing at us to sit down & order quick, we're late...my little sister is standing there shaking her head, face getting redder & redder.."I need to go to the ladies room." My sister in law tries to use this opportunity too, "Me too!" (she never went before leaving the house, which is a big no-no in a big family) My mother says "sit down and order!" So she sits but she's jumping around... my mother "what's wrong with you??" The waitress comes to take our order and when she gets to my sister, my sister leaps to her feet and yells "there's a bug biting my butt!" and runs off to the ladies room, my sister in law on her heels. That was it, doghouse city for the lot of us. .
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 25, 2009
07:05 PM Post #6864774
| Geez, the computer clutz did it again. Never down load something, while you are doing something else. Didn't know it would shut everything down and re-start. I was at my humorus best, too. At my age I can't remember what I was saying. Oh yeah, I was telling the world that I was famous. Chezca googled me and actually found me. Goodness, I think my head is swelling and I don't have enough hair to cover the one I already had. Oh my, what to do? I know, I'll read the posts that tell me how dumb I am for taking two ambien at the same time. Ahhh, problem solved. Head down to normal size. Still not enough hair to cover it.
It's not that I take so much medicine, although I do have to date diabetes medicine, but my wife is a vitamin nut. It's easier to take them than to argue. Getting old!! Use to love to argue with her! It was sooo much fun making up. As the saying goes, "try it, you'll like it.
Lynnie, that is a great story. I do believe you have topped me. Lordy, weren't momma's something. Don't know what I'd do for entertainment without you girls. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 25, 2009
09:59 PM Post #6865318
| It took me forever to write that, kept getting interrupted...I also meant to say ambien is practically an alibi, you know! it's been used as a defense in courts of law. Chezka is right. She can't get there from here?...bet she could on 2 ambien ;) And I won't say a word about the fried food, I'll just assume it's a rare treat for a man who has had heart surgery...?
grammyjo & jim so when my sisters & brother said the devil made us do it we were not far off the mark?? Why else would i have picked that card?? That was very fresh. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 25, 2009
10:25 PM Post #6865416
| You are fresh but every thing is better fresh, right. Fried foods? Well, told my doctor the day he told me no fried fish was the day I'd be doctor shopping. Actually, I really don't care for meats anymore, especially with the garden producing but we usually go eat seafood once a week. Besides if fish is fried right it isn't greasy. Got to know how its done. Oil has to be so hot it will strike a match. Oh and by the Flip Wilson made a fortune with that phrase. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 25, 2009
11:21 PM Post #6865630
| I'd rather eat FRIED chickin than FRESH chickin ^-^! That much I can promise :-)! Yeah, Mr Jim IS famous! So many hits on google! I googled my name once and I got like 5 hits (all in some foreign language!)... Grilled seafood is the best! But I have to confess, me no likey veggies ^-^ I don know why but my mom could never trick me into eating them! I liked corn, carrots, maters, cukes (and all has to be fresh). The closest I will ever get into eating cooked veggies is french fries ^-^! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 25, 2009
11:53 PM Post #6865751
| Chezka you're so funny!
Jim... your argument on fried food isn't logical, captain. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 26, 2009
12:23 AM Post #6865864
| Good grief, charlie brown! What's this guys beef with Terry?!? Why haven't they banned his ISP from this site?!? Sheesh! This person sounds like a psycho! Nuff already!
There. Had to get that out of my system... Did you guys see the posts?!? Sooo weird! |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 26, 2009
12:34 AM Post #6865905
| Grammatically challenged too! Same treatments as for slugs? what a loony. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 26, 2009
12:43 AM Post #6865944
| Hehe... Good one Pajonica ^-^! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
01:02 AM Post #6866001
| Dear Sweet Lynnie, haven't you noticed by now that logic is not my long suit. This is what is illogical, for 17 years my colesterol numbers was under 150. The good ones were high and the bad ones low. Passed my nuclear stress test every year with flying colors. Ten to twelve minutes on the tread mill. Hey, it has been a long time since you had surgery, let's do a cath. Two grafts 100% blocked, three 90% blockages down my left main (the widow maker don't ya know) and four other blockages from 80% down to 60%. To that was illogical. Nothing blocked in lower extremeties. Second cath after surgery showed no blocks in my neck. Oh well, so far I've had two heart attacks (one major), a melanoma off my back in the third stage (eight years ago), and am a diebetic. Can't find on all their fancy machines where I ever had a heart attack, the melanoma was supposed to be loose (refused any type of treatment) and I'm still going strong. I have got where I can't work over 10 or 12 hours without getting tired and it never gets to hot for me. I do freeze if the temp gets below fifty degrees. See what an illogical ole cuss I am. Didn't mean to sound like I was bragging - just blessed for some unexplainable reason. Maybe so I can pester all of you.
Ya'll better be sweet to me to because Chezca has adopted me as her Gramps.
By the way, have I missed something? Who is the physco? and Where did he post? I thought I had read all of this post. |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 26, 2009
01:19 AM Post #6866025
| Over on the beginner gardener forum. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 26, 2009
01:58 AM Post #6866067
| they've taken all of his posts off. let's hope they blocked his main IP address... |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 26, 2009
02:49 AM Post #6866112
| This child will keep on coming if they haven't. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 26, 2009
07:48 AM Post #6866387
| yes I saw those late last night (right after saying I was wide awake & then falling asleep lol) he was landscaping 92...all his posts have been removed. It was disturbing wasn't it Chezka? Lotta hate in there. No place for that here! Sounds like he used 3 different names, too, boy that would be work keeping all that straight!
Jim that's how my father was...good numbers, bad plaque :( when it's time, you go, no? I just had to tease you on the fried food. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 26, 2009
12:56 PM Post #6867316
| I wonder what he did to get his account deleted the first time... hmmm... I gues that was a good call on Terri's part :-)!
We should send him bags of slimy slugs!^-^ |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
02:13 PM Post #6867608
| Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." It is an appointment we will all keep, won't be early and won't be late. The judgment, I'm not worried about. Got that settled a long time ago. If the appointment is set, why worry about it. Besides, if your from the south, you have to have a certain amount of grease to exist. Keeps the slugs from crawling up your pants leg. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 26, 2009
05:49 PM Post #6868401
| Jim I saw a sign on a church that said 'if you're still alive your mission isn't accomplished.' I thought geez the pressure!! lol |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 26, 2009
08:41 PM Post #6868994
| Hmmm...does grease really keep the slugs from crawling up??? :-) May have to do an experiment and find out! |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 26, 2009
09:34 PM Post #6869173
| Ahh Jim, Judgement Day. Do you believe it's true? I just had to ask;-)
Rachel |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 26, 2009
10:07 PM Post #6869265
| so if we grease our plants the slugs won't climb them...
ok tell us about Judgment Day (which is reminding me of The Terminator). |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
10:08 PM Post #6869269
| Yep! I Believe in a Judgment Day. Believe everything in the Bible from "in the beginning to the final amen."
It must be true about the grease because I have never hat a slug crawl up my leg. Course I have never had a fly to light successfully on my head either. Had a few to try but they slipped and broke their wings. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 26, 2009
10:08 PM Post #6869273
| AND the four horsemen! I just watched "Horsemen" and it was creepy! |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 26, 2009
10:14 PM Post #6869289
| Me too Jim!
Chezca, is "horsemen" a flick out or what? I am not a T.V. or movie flick person;-) But I am a horsewoman...in real life.
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
10:20 PM Post #6869309
| Judgment Day is nothing like Terminator. The Bible tells us there are two judgments: 1. The Bema where the works of the Believers will be judged. Not their sins, the sins have already been paid for on the Cross by Jesus. 2. In Revelations it tells us that there will be a final judgment for non- believers. They will be judged out of books with the final book being the Book of Life. This is there response to the invitation to come to Jesus for forgiveness and excepted the sacrifice He made for them on the Cross. If they rejected the invitation they are cast in the "Lake of Fire." In answer to the next question, " I can't believe a loving God would cast some into Hell." I don't believe that either. A loving God made a way of escape by sending His Son to pay our sin debt. If one winds up in that terrible place it is his or her own fault.
Well shucks, you guys asked. I'm not trying to preach to you. |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
July 26, 2009
10:21 PM Post #6869314
| Is It OK to kill slugs? If not I'm going down man! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
10:25 PM Post #6869331
| Hey guys, I don't mind sharing what I believe. Any place or any time. I wouldn't like it if someone turned this forum into a political arena and I imagine there are some that won't like us talking about spiritual issues. Notice I didn't say Religious. Don't like that word. Do much bad stuff has been done in the name of Religion. So if you have a question of this sort, you would like me to try to answer, fill free to D-Mail me. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 26, 2009
10:27 PM Post #6869334
| You can add all you want too, but I have to add, my up-bringing is "Listen to God" and he will show you the way to repent from sin forever.
In my mind and way of thinking...it's all between an individual and the Almighty God ! A human has a choice while here on earth. Choose wisely;-)
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
10:30 PM Post #6869345
| Hey man, squash them buggers. Zap them aphids. Poison them stink bugs. Love you neighbor and laugh at your self occasionly. If your like me, others are laughing at you. Don't bother me a tall I just join in the fun. Hey man, life on this earth is short, make the best of it. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
10:32 PM Post #6869354
| Right on Rachael, it is strickly personal. It is a personal relationship. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 26, 2009
10:36 PM Post #6869361
| Right on Jim. Now how about that movie that Chezca was speaking of...???
Heck I might like it.
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 26, 2009
10:42 PM Post #6869382
| I know about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse but I don't know about a movie. Come on Chezca, be an obedient granddaughter and fill me in. |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 27, 2009
02:24 AM Post #6869945
| Hey guys, anyone up this late? Who talked about spiders on the ceiling and their sisters NOT being freaked out by that??? Can't remember if it was chezka, Lynnie or Jim. I think it was you Jim, correct? Gosh, weren't they afraid they drop into their hair (or worse places) while they were sleeping?? EEK!
And I have to add my 2cents worth about the judgement too, well about Hell really. Right on Jim, God certainly would NOT cast anyone into Hell! Hell was created for rebellious angels NOT for man. God never intended for one person to go there but as by one man ALL have sinned, by ONE man all can be saved. That's how good and loving God truely is!
My hubby & I went several places today after church, to visit my precious mother in the nursing home (last stages Alzheimer's Disease for the last 6 years), then to eat, then to the store and then headed home. We stopped so I could take some photos of a farm and the country side AND the sky. The day was beautiful but the sky was the MOST BEAUTIFUL I've seen it ever! There were so many ‘Jesus Clouds’. Oh…. that’s what I call those huge very fluffy, puffy ones that sort of billow up, get bright white and have those sort of ‘caves’ in them. I always picture Him riding his white horse in all His glory on just those types of clouds! I think they’re called cumulous clouds. I'm uploading a photo so I can share it with all you guys. I didn't do any adjusting to it, it's just as it was taken.
Later, Jo ;o)
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 27, 2009
02:31 AM Post #6869953
| Oh, yeah about the guy who made those angry posts (Terry?). I didn't see his posts but he's probably what's called a 'flamer' or something like that. There are people who go from forum to forum JUST to say provocative things to rile people up in the hopes of getting them to get into an argument with them. Sad that there are people so lacking in joy that they have a need to purposely draw others into confrontation(s) with them so that they can get their jollies. |
GrammyJo
(Jo) Granite City, IL
(Zone 6a)
July 27, 2009
02:35 AM Post #6869958
| Darn, meant to upload another photo with that last post. Well, I'll just do it HERE! 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 27, 2009
05:50 AM Post #6870097
| I didn't see Horsemen Rachel but it's about a serial killer (or group of) . Dennis Quaid is in it, I like him. It is based loosely on the the 4 horsemen of which you speak Jim. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 27, 2009
06:04 AM Post #6870109
| oh Grammyjo Terry isn't the one who made the posts, Terry is an admin who removed the troublemaker & his posts.
Also, it was Jim's sisters with the spiders. If those had been in my house growing up the screaming would have been heard the world over. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 27, 2009
08:43 AM Post #6870417
| Talking of spiders reminds me, does anyone know a good old fashioned "natural" cure for those tiny ants that are everywhere?
Also does spreading sulfur in your yard really get rid of seed ticks? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 27, 2009
11:13 AM Post #6870977
| HELLOOOOO PEEPS! Man! It took me a while to read all new posts! Hi ya "gramps"!^-^ I took a tumble in our garage on saturday and was a bit "incapacitated" for a day or so that's why haven't really "surfed" a lot...
Hooookay, yes, "Horsemen" is a movie about these creepy serial killer GROUP. They kill according to the Book of Revelations' the Four Horsemen. Pretty gruesome stuff but the plot needed to be beefed up more...
cat6, use 2 tbsp dr. bronner's pepermint castile soap with a cuppa water and use to spray them ants dead... It works for me and it's the only stuff I use now on my plants for bugs and esp aphids... |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 27, 2009
11:34 AM Post #6871137
| Cat if you have the little sugar ants in your house (might be brown or black) you can get a bait from one of those guys who spays houses and put them out. We had them last year in a bathroom of all places. A guy down the road from me has his own terminex business, told me not to poison them but to use bait that they would carry back to the nest. Gave me a handful. Like to have never convinced the wife to leave them alone but did finally. Took about ten days but they are gone. They quit galavanting over the bathroom and just went straight to the bait.
So sorry about the fall grandaughter. Must run in the family. Was weed eating my sons ditch about six weeks ago and stepped down a little to reach the bottom, hit a muddy spot and both feet went straight up. Landed flat of my back but luckily didn't hit my head on the pavement. Had to lay there about five minutes before I could get up. No problem. A month later I thought I had pulled a muscle in my back and finally last week went to the doc. Exrayed and did an MRI and I've got a bunch of discs bulging. Getting an appointment with pain management to get started on some physical therapy. What gripes me is that I have always been careful how I lifted things to keep from ruining my back and now a silly fall has messed it up royally. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 27, 2009
11:38 AM Post #6871157
| Maybe I will try both at the same time! Give them a double whammy! :-) I don't know any exterminators though. I'll have to check around. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 27, 2009
11:38 AM Post #6871159
| Thanks guys! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 27, 2009
11:47 AM Post #6871201
| :-) Hey, ya gots a free mudbath for it, right? ^-^ If anything, it "refreshed" and "exfoliated" your pores!
Me, I got kneecapped :-( got a big ol bruise on my knee the size of a tennis ball (still swollen) and my whole right side took most of the force so it's hurtin like I got run over by a semi ^-^! And all because I was trying to make sure that the puppy I was petsitting didn't try to escape! After I got up, the puppy was just sitting there idly staring at me with a look that says, "what's all THAT about?!?" with her puppy dog eyes ... Sheesh! |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 27, 2009
11:57 AM Post #6871248
| Thank's Lynnie and Chezca for filling me in on the movie "horsemen" and sorry to hear that you, Chezca and Jim took some nasty's fall's. Hope you both heal up quickly!
GrammyJo, Beautiful picture's you took there. Thank's for sharing them.
Have a great day all.
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 27, 2009
03:01 PM Post #6871892
| Hey Guys, the monster is starting to turn yellow. Need to turn it so it won't rot on the bottom with rain approaching but afraid to move it because it is so heavy. Carrying my chainsaw to get it sharpened this evening. Gotta be prepared to slice that thing. Thinking of having a community cantalope supper. If that thing doesn't taste good I'm gonna cry.
Chezca, you be more careful. Watch the bruises and make sure you don't get a blood clot. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 27, 2009
03:08 PM Post #6871923
| You need to post a picture when you pick it Jim. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 27, 2009
03:12 PM Post #6871937
| You got it cat. Gonna carry it and weigh it somewhere to see if its as heavy as it seem. Can't really tell with all the vines and afraid to move it to much. Cantalopes have to stay on the vine to they pull themselves for them to be completely ripe and to have any flavor. That's one reason the ones you buy at the store don't have any flavor. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 27, 2009
03:13 PM Post #6871946
| When I get to a place where I can garden again, I may try some of those seeds. IF they can be found, that is |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 27, 2009
04:09 PM Post #6872164
| Jim, I thought bruises ARE teeny tiny bloodclots..? I'm just a big klutz ^-^
A chainsaw?!? To cut the slug-eating cantaloupe?!? How ginormous is that thing?!? Yeesh! you could probly feed a whole platoon with it! ;-)
Btw, we have one peach tree in our backyard and those suckers are bout ready to be picked! Yummm! Only problem I have with em buggers is how to NEATLY peel em ^-^...
Notice this thread has ALMOST 400 posts! Kewl! |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 27, 2009
04:28 PM Post #6872251
| Hi All. Stay gone a couple days and it takes half a day to get caught up!!Grandson has been over for a couple days and hijacked the computer. Sorry to hear of all the bumps and bruises. Must have been something in the air. My dog ate fly bait poison so had to feed her peroxide. That was interesting!
Jim as far as being illogical. My dad would tell you to trust yourself nobody knows your body better than you do. His body did nothing by the' book' usually just the opposite. The first Dr. he went to told him he was in great shape he new better and kept going to different Dr's til someone listened to him, he was 32 when he had his first bypass he had 4 one every 5 years then had a transplant,( his actual heart muscle was in great shape it was the blockages in the arteries that caused his problems and without the cath nothing showed up) he lived 17 years doing great and when he passed away 7 yrs ago it was from kidney failure from the rejection medicine.
The spooky part is he kept asking if it was his birthday yet ( we had his party a week early) and when we asked why he wanted to know he said " I am going to die on my birthday", and on his b-day he came home from dialysis and went to sleep and passed . Ghosts??
My mom swears he turns the light on in the bathroom every morning.
Welcome cat##### I can't remember the numbers and to lazy to scroll back that far.
Later Gotta go watch the grandkid, farmer dil.
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 27, 2009
04:34 PM Post #6872274
| Chezca You don't happen to have a peach cobbler recipe do ya?? My son wants peach cobbler and I don't have a clue never made peach nothin. I googled it but then get so many different recipes don't know if they are good or not
Thanks |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 27, 2009
04:52 PM Post #6872347
| jjsgram, my sil does! She's been eyein those peaches for about 2 months now. Says she can't wait to bake some goodies out of em... I'll bug her tonight for her peach cobller and shoot ya a Dmail...
Here's a question for anybody: If there is an afterlife and we get to be with our dearly departed when we croak, what happens if your ex-wives/husbands are there too?!? What if you've been married 3, 4, 5 glorious times and you see all of your spouses on the other side, what do ya think will happen? Do you stick with the most current or I don't know... This is turning my brain into mush... Basically, who's gonna be THE "one true love" in the afterlife? I really can't even phrase my meandering convoluted question properly ^-^!
uh, "SLUGS RULE!" btw. :p
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 27, 2009
05:19 PM Post #6872461
| Chezca, our husband as the church, all true born again believers will be the bride of Christ. Jesus will be our one true love. The Book says no marrying or giving in marriage. No sexual relationship. It also says, we shall know as we are known. Recognition, yep. Envy, anger, jealousy, greed, tears, all gone.
jjs I'll get the Lady to give me her recipe for cobbler, maybe the Lazy Pie. You can compare to Chezca's and see how similar they are.
Chezca, I don't care for any kind of fruit but my wife loves them. Been feeding and ole boy down the road on cantalopes for a month and he's been returning the favor by keeping Jo in peachs. Ole Jim is left high and dry.
Cat, this monster of a slug eatting cantalope is a volunteer. Pretty sure it has reverted to something the Ambrosia Cantalopes, I raise, was bred from. Farmerdill (not the grandson) expained to me about the hy-breds.
You'll have to get someone who knows more than me about bruises. I do know sometimes they can form a blood clot that is dangerous if the bruise is deep enough. If the leg get red and starts hurting worse go to the doc. Most of the time, no worry. You know I got to take care of my Granddaughter. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 27, 2009
05:51 PM Post #6872575
| ^-^...
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 27, 2009
06:53 PM Post #6872833
| I knew it was you without even reading your name. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 27, 2009
09:49 PM Post #6873463
| Been thinking, that's a real chore for me, on one of these thread, I believe it was Lynnie, mentioned Foghorn Leghorn. Maybe I ought to change my user name to that since I seem to be the only rooster in this henhouse. What do you think? Naw, I don't think so either.
Temps in our area are a cool 90. Only thing, the humidity is about 85 per cent. Like to have got to hot twice today.
Got my bales of hay in the green house and started soaking them. Soak every day for 14 days. Getting ready to plant my Christmas tomatoes.
Don't know if it's to early, but planted 2, 5 ft. rows of carrots, 2 of lettuce, 2 Cherry Belle Radishs and 1 of Icicicle Radishs.
Never wanted to see summer end but I can hardly wait to plant cabbage, mustard greens, turnips, rutabagas and brocolli.
Geez, girls. Somebody hurry up and post something, I'm going nuts all by my lonesome. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 27, 2009
11:45 PM Post #6873985
| Ok! Ok!
We have yet to see summer here in Ca... :-( It's sooo weird, feels like autumn...
Nieces visited for a while so i couldn't sneak away to post :-)... They're all growed up :-(... Wanted tacobell for dinner (blech!)...
Ok, that should put your blood pressure back to near normal... ^-^! Have a wonderful night! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 28, 2009
12:55 AM Post #6874166
| I've never eaten at Taco Bell but I like Mexican Food. Love Chili Renoes. Think I spealt that right. You have a wonderful night as well.
Going to try to post a picture to see if any of you guys have ever seen one before. I hadn't until last year when a lady in Alabama sent Jo some seed. She has been saving seed to this plant for probably 50 years. Don't know if you can still purchase them or not. Probably can it you know the technical name, which I don't. Here goes nothing.
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
01:11 AM Post #6874210
| Number 400th?!? Woohoo! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
01:13 AM Post #6874217
| Nice lookin plant, gramps!^-^
I just had to post the 400th before someone else did :-)!
Does the plant ever flower? The foliage looks amazing enough... |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 28, 2009
01:23 AM Post #6874238
| Yes, it flowers but the foliage is awesome. I'd tell you what it is but waitin for gusses. Congrats on 400. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
06:58 AM Post #6874574
| Jim Foghorn Leghorn would suit you that could be your new username :) I have no idea what that plant is, but I'm not good at identifying plants. Leaves look a little like all the sumac we pulled out.
Chezka did you ever read Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven? It's an interesting concept. Entertaining read. Me, I'm a show me person. I'll believe it when I see it.
Cat I was weeding my backyard and I think the whole area under the playscape (20 X 40) is an ant nest...pull a weed, they come teeming out...blech...I didn't finish weeding. I'll spray first!
JJ I have an awesome peach cobbler recipe if you want it...lady from Tennesee gave it to me, it was her grandmother's. I put blueberries in it, but that's just me tweaking it to my taste.
Grammyjo I meant to say earlier, nice pictures! |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
08:45 AM Post #6874815
| What state are you in Lynnie? Hopefully at least they weren't fire ants!!! I used to live in TX and those things hurt!
And I would love a good peach cobbler recipe too! Always looking for good recipes.
Jim you have never eaten taco bell? You poor dear! Love those mexi melts! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
08:59 AM Post #6874859
| peach cobbler
3/4 stick butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups sliced fresh peaches
Melt butter in 9x13 pan (I do it in oven while it's preheating) In bowl mix sugar, flour, baking soda, buttermilk, vanilla. Pour over butter, don't mix. Put peaches on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 mins. Just get a fork & eat it from the pan, it's that's good ;) |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
09:01 AM Post #6874865
| Thanks! Printing it off. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
09:01 AM Post #6874866
| I'm in MA...no fire ants here...guess they don't like the snow.
We were in Maine last week, there were ladybugs all over the beach. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
09:03 AM Post #6874876
| I've never been up in that area. They say it's gorgeous up there in the summer. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
09:03 AM Post #6874877
| Cat that would be pretty funny if you got the whole thread! lol
Jim I admit I never thought we'd get to 400 posts... |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
09:06 AM Post #6874892
| LOL. Not so funny as I am at work and it would tie the printer up forEVER!! :-) |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
09:06 AM Post #6874894
| fall is the time to come...
I like Maine's rocky coast...I like rocks. I like when the tide goes out & you can explore all the tidal pools, see the crabs & sea urchins & starfish... |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
09:08 AM Post #6874899
| Someday! :-) |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 28, 2009
10:28 AM Post #6875164
| Lynnie Thanks for the recipe. Chezca gave me one also. Jim send me yours please. I'll have my own little bake off. Chezca might have to send me some peaches.
I put an order in for Ga peaches next time trucker friend goes there. Told him I'd make him peach cobbler.
Am I the only one around here that SLEEPS at night. If its past 10:00 and I'm not in bed you can bet I fell asleep on the couch.
Jim I don't know the names of my own plants, so no help from me. It looks huge bet it really something when it blooms!!
Why do you soak hay?? |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
10:55 AM Post #6875269
| LOL. No I sleep at night too. I have to be at work at 7 am |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 28, 2009
11:03 AM Post #6875323
| Glad to hear someone does. They are all taking sleeping pills to sleep, I was thinking of asking Doc for something to stay awake. LOL |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
11:09 AM Post #6875358
| LOL. I'm so tired at the end of the day, I don't need anything to make me sleep. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
11:15 AM Post #6875390
| Yep, I read then watched Five People You Meet in Heaven... Liked the book better, the movie was missing "something"... You should read "These Lovely Bones"... Very good read... Books are better read than watched, don't you agree? Because they lose something in the translation, like say, Memoirs of a Geisha and Da Vinci Code...
Grammy, I'd send you peaches if I could but them suckers are already fallin off the tree cos they're sooo big and ripe now (they'd get to you in the form of mush if I mailed them^-^)...
Grampa Foghorn was feeling depressed last night bcos he was the only one posting :-), that's when I saw we were at 399! Btw, where is he? He probably stayed up too late waiting for the other chickins to post ^-^
Taco Bell is ok to stave off late night hunger pangs... But I still like the mom & pop burrito places... Ooh but I JUST LOVE taco bell's mango-straberry frustista freeze ;-) yummmmmm!!!!!!!!!! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
11:31 AM Post #6875465
| Cat I'm tired in the MIDDLE of the day! LOL good thing the coffee pot is always full!
Chezka I read all those books...The Lovely Bones was the saddest thing, read it at the wrong time for me & wished I'd never picked it up (the elderberry bushes haunt me!). Right now reading Phillipa Gregory's series of books about Henry VIII & his women..very good series, some criticize her for not being completely true to history, but she makes that time come alive for me.
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
11:40 AM Post #6875499
| Oooh I love "historical-fiction" ^-^ too! Also addicted to Patricia Cornwell but not much anymore because her latest novels were a bust... She's running out of steam I guess...
What about the Odd Thomas series? They're sorta fun in a dark way :-)...
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
11:43 AM Post #6875509
| oh almost forgot:
SLUGS are annoying.
There. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
11:47 AM Post #6875523
| Love Odd Thomas. I used to collect all the Stephen King books. Dean Koontz too |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
11:51 AM Post #6875535
| me too! I used to love Patricia Cornwell...have you read Kathy Reichs? Same type of thing but the main character is much more human...less woe-is-me. Check her out.
I haven't read the Odd Thomas series, is that Dean Koontz? I read his early stuff but then his way of digressing and rambling on about nothing in the middle of the action annoyed me, plus his frequent use of "sodium vapor lights." Call it a streetlight for heaven's sake!
One of my all time favorites is John Sandford (crime detective series) that man cannot write fast enough for me. And he's smart enough to get another character going when his grows out of the story. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
11:52 AM Post #6875543
| lol Cat...cross-posted...Steven King wrote Odd Thomas? I have read a few of his books...ever read the one about the strawberry pie & the gypsies? Can't remember the name of it. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
11:58 AM Post #6875564
| Oh yes. Thinner. I don't think there are any I haven't read. Can't remember the names of lots of them, but, I went nutty for several years collecting them all.
Odd was written by Koontz |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
12:05 PM Post #6875592
| Don't forget to mention SLUGS, peeps! That way all our posts are sorta relevant (SORTA) ^-^!
Ah but my ultimate wish for this year is to get my very own KINDLE! I've been dropping "subtle" hints on my DH (like printing an 11x17 printout of kindle with my birthday date and leaving copies in his truck, on his pillow, taped to the coffee maker, taped on the wall in front of the toilet, etc). Constantly complaining that we have no more space for anymore books, books are so heavy, books are sooo dusty, etc. etc... ^-^ |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
12:25 PM Post #6875677
| Than you Chezka for keeping us on topic...this is why you're Grampa's favorite... ;)
Kindle saves trees. Woman at work has one, she loves it.
I do believe slugs would be a natural topic for the horror books!
I don't collect 'em, I read 'em & trade 'em or give 'em away...have either of you read Velocity by Koonz, that was one scary book...read it in a few hours. Couldn't put it down. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 28, 2009
12:34 PM Post #6875709
| Good gracious, you gals been busy this morning. Don't even know where to start. I really enjoyed it all. First of all the plant is a fall blooming Marigold. Seed given to my wife from a lady in Alabama who has been saving it forever. I really like the folliage and the blooms are pretty and usually nothing else is blooming.
My wife and I have spent so much time at hopitals over the last 28 years that I just seldom eat fast foods. Never eaten at Taco Bell at all. We found out for a couple of dollars more we could eat a good mean. Usually we eat at Cracker Barrell. Mainly because of the veggies.
I guess one reason this post has gotten so long is because we all have a lot in common. All the talk about reading is just another tie. I have always been a reader. I red Gone With the Wind I was ten. Use to swipe my sisters Frank Yerby books and read them while she was at work. I've read some of all the authors you guys mentioned. I'm not real particular, I read most anything. Crave it like I use to cigrettees. Got hooked on westerns when I didn't have much time to read but the only guy I liked died so seldom read one. If you want to read a good series of books, read the Left Behind series. Follows the events as recorded in the book of Revelation but extremely well written. I like Gresham's books and Sandra Brown writes good books. Love the Spenser series of books. Well enough, I like them all and slugs tend to leave them alone. That was cool how I slipped that in. Me and my granddaughter have to keep this thread on track. Right Chezca.
I know about fire ants, Cats. I think the migration stops at the foot hills of the Ozarks. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
12:40 PM Post #6875729
| There IS a movie called SLUGS... Released in 1988... Slugs invade small town and starts eating... PEOPLE!
AKKKKKKK! ^-^
AND it was actually based on a real book! Double akkkkk!!!
Right on, gramps ;-)
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 28, 2009
12:42 PM Post #6875742
| Chezca told me I reminded her of her Gramps. That is the highest praise a man can get. Gramps are always sweet and adorable and all the good stuff. If someone said you are just like my Dad, unless they explain they might consider you the next Jack the Ripper. But really I love you all and my wife is getting jealous of all the time I spend with you. Just joking. Only woman I know who tells her husband to tell the women to quit getting makeup on his suit coat when they hug him. It's her fault though, she buys me the best smelling after shave there is and I smell better than there husbands. On guy told me if I wasn't so old and ugly he'd be jealous. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
12:49 PM Post #6875766
| ok, one more cuppa for my break then I HAVE to get my errands done! This is like my koffee klatch (is that what they were called). |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
12:54 PM Post #6875779
| my grampa was a stonemason, had a thick Italian accent & pinched our cheeks when we walked in. he kept a candy jar full of chocolate. grew his own grapes & made wine, grew his own veggies. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
01:09 PM Post #6875844
| Chezka I just looked it up! Slugs, Muerte Viscosa! I love it! And in the movie a slug expert from England had to come save the day! Good thing we have Lainymay! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
01:22 PM Post #6875885
| ^-^!
My gramps was a stone sculptor. He built and made houses back in the day. His stone sculptures are mostly lifesized and only one is still in our family. A 7 foot Virgin Mary! It still stands guard in front of my bro's house where my gramps old house used to stand. He built our town church then my dad took over renovating it after my gramps passed on... You can still see his original work on the turret/tower... I took part in drawing the new renovation plans for my dad so it's sort of a family thing and I'm so lucky I was a part of it...:-)
As for SLUGS, the movie, I'll surely rent it over the weekend and relive the horror! (I remember watching it when I was younger) The movie was HORRIBLE btw... :-)
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 28, 2009
01:40 PM Post #6875950
| Chezca it's he thought that counts.
Lynnie I loved "Velocity". I like James Patterson and Mary Higgens Clark too. How come Chezka sees all the good movies?? I better upgrade my cable channels.
Before I go LOOK what I got before the Slugs
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
02:01 PM Post #6876101
| gramma, if i am a herbivore, my mouth would be watering! Your veggies look fantastic!
Hey I just discovere RedBox/BlueBox. They're dvd rental kiosks at most grocery stores and they rent dvds for a buck a night! that's where i get most of my movies now. Oh there's Lifetime tv of course (dh hates it, says it's too girly and would NEVER watch that channel no matter if loved the movie, when he sees the lifetime logo he stops watchin, grunts/spits and make manly noises (like belching and snorting) ^-^! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 28, 2009
02:55 PM Post #6876322
| Lynnie and Chezca, thanks for sharing about your Granddads. I hope someday my grandchildren will be able to point back to some heritage I have left. I like that about the candy. All the years I was senior pastor, I kept a tin can with circus pictures on it filled with Dum Dums. When the congregation passed out all the kiddo's got a sucker, even the ones a prospective mom was carrying. Some of the momma's didn't like it so much but the kiddo's did. When they began to have questions about God and needed to ask someone other than mom or dad, guess what? They weren't afraid to sit down and talk to the man who had given them suckers all their life. One Sunday I had to be gone and got a friend to supply for me, that evening my cell rung and he wanted to know where the can of suckers were. Said the kids ganged up on him wanting to know, "Where de suckas."
Your veggies are beautiful, jjs. I like what you are showin anyway you fix. I like the cabbage, green beans, bell pepper and onion stir fried together. Oh yeah, and some yellow or zuke squash added in. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
02:58 PM Post #6876334
| I had to actually do some work! Can you imagine!? :-)
Jim, I'm glad there are no fire ants here. I remember one time my daughter (12 or 13 then) was out playing and started screaming. I ran out like a crazy person and she was standing in a big bed of them. Had them crawling all up her legs! Just standing there frozen, and yelling! LOL. It wasn't funny at the time. I got the hose and doused her from head to toe, trying to get them all off. And we went around the whole yard with kerosene and matches, trying to burn the hills out. They are small but painful little critters!
Seems like I remember a movie about slugs too. Will have to do some searching! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 28, 2009
03:58 PM Post #6876511
| I saw a lady a few years ago at the doctor's office, she had gotten in a fire ant bed several years before. He had her on some type of medication and everytime she ran out, the spots would get red and inflamed again. Folks up north how bad those things are. I have tiny scars all over my arms from pulling a stoppage out of my hay cutter. Went through a fire ant hill in the hay probably a foot tall. You can always tell a man who is from the south, because when he stops walking he always looks down at his feet to make sure he isn't in a fire ant bed, even when he is inside.
You guys and your movies got me wanting to watch one, V for Vendetta. Earlier in the day I watched about ten minutes of an old Johnny Weismuller, Tarzan movie. Got frustrated when I still couldn't do his ape man yell and turned it off. Always wanted to get that thing down pat. Wife looks at me funny when I practice in the house. Maybe I'll go out to the garden and see if it'll scare the slugs away. Can't do that cause it's drizzeling rain and the temp is in the 70's and I'm freezing and the little woman won't tell me where she's got my long drawers stored. Gee whiz life is frustrating. Thank goodness for the Slug Thread and Cat to keep me company.
The Monster is a little more yellow even in the rain. Second one on the vine is starting to turn. Had to promise it to the man that is keepin my wife in eatin peachs. Thought I was about through with him but now he's bringing muscadines as well. Says he's got 26 varieties and the last one won't come off until September. Uggh!! Don't like none of that junk food. Wonder if he'll still show up when the cantalopes play out. Thinking about dosing one of those lopes with the juice of the jalepeno from hell. Stop that Jim, people already think your nuts. Maybe that can be my plea if he has me arrested. Just thinking out loud girls. Still the sweet, docile, hen-pecked husband I've always been. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
04:07 PM Post #6876535
| It's 70's and you're freezing?!? How?!? :-) You should watch the Bourne series. It's about this special ops guy that the gov is trying to off bcos he's too good at his job ^-^..
My DH sees a couple of ants in the house and he goes nuts with the bug spray. I keep telling him he not just gonna off the ants but us too one of these days ^-^! That stuff is awful! But he keeps buying those bug-fightin, anti-bug, bug-zappin, bug-repellant, etc chemicals and just goes around the house sprayin willynilly... He says he's just tryin to get them spideys before they get to us :-)...
Hey gramps, how come the missus isn't postin here at Dave's herself? Are you hoggin the 'puter? ^-^
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cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 28, 2009
04:16 PM Post #6876577
| Good idea Chez. She could join in on all the craziness! :-) |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 28, 2009
05:41 PM Post #6876892
| Chezka my grandfather made statues of the Virgin Mary and Joseph too! How funny is that?
JJ those veggies look good.
Jim is V for Vendetta a Susan Grafton one? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 28, 2009
06:06 PM Post #6876986
| What a koinkidink, Lynnie! :-)
All of us in this thread should REALLY try to watch that slug movie! It would be fun to talk about it afterwards... i can just imagine all the smart puns we can come up with... |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 28, 2009
11:52 PM Post #6878556
| Hey Chez, I am cold natured. Eversense I had my first heart surgery, I nearly freeze. Keep a stocking cap on the head of my bed, just in case the bald spot gets cold in the night. Heat, I love it never gets to hot for me if I think to drink water. Humidity in Louisiana will kill you though. Low humity for us is in the 40's.
My wife is not in to computers. She won't sit long enough for me to teach her what little I know. Did get her to look at a couple of pictures the other night.
I don't know about the author of the movie. I liked it because it was full of action and the good guys won. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
01:05 AM Post #6878737
| Been sitting here pondering. What old folks do when they can't think of what they was a doing before they starting pondering. Make sense to you? Does to me, cause I'm the one pondering. Ponder on Chezca's idea of all watching the "Slug Movie." May be if our review of the movie is good enough, we might replace Ebert. Most any one of us has more personallity than he does. Might just be the way to supplement SS. Hmmm! Quite and idea Granddaughter. The smarts seem to run in the family. Jest you recollect where you gottum from. |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 29, 2009
08:43 AM Post #6879358
| anyone know where I can get that super thrive stuff? |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 29, 2009
09:20 AM Post #6879467
| Good morning everyone. I won't be on much today. Got to go to another office.
I got some at a Lowes last year iluvcatz. Hopefully you have one in your area and they have it too!
Have a super day all. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
10:35 AM Post #6879772
| Wha happened?!? The Mint Juleps outposted us! :-) Mornin ya'll! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
10:37 AM Post #6879778
| Oh btw, I guess I need to sluggo once more... found a itty bitty baby slug last night and that means its got bros and sissies :-) time for them to go nanyt! ^-^ |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 29, 2009
11:00 AM Post #6879857
| Good morning all. Chezca, I had to bring out the Sluggo a couple of day's ago as well! There was a lot of new munching going on ...dang them slimmy thing's and I even was able to slice a few in two that were still hanging around;-) It's raining here today so this evening may be a good time to go hand picking.
I have not read the "mint" thread but I may have to take a look at it.
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
11:34 AM Post #6879987
| They moved the mint thread from Beginners Gardening to Tree and Plant Identification and picked up a whole lot of new people posting.
Well gang, what the slugs couldn't do the rain did. Went to look at the Monster today and it had split wide open. Guess it tried to start growing again. Tried a bite of it anyway but not much flavor. Still kind of green tasting. Pidked on a little smaller that way trying to split and Jo peeled it and put it in the refrigerator. Will let it stand a couple of days before I try it. Just guessing, but I would estimate that the big one weighed between 12 and 15 pounds. It was fun to watch it grow anyway.
Hope you have a good day Cat. My granddaughter works for the military and hates to be sent to a new office to work for the day. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 29, 2009
11:41 AM Post #6880033
| I seen the "mint" thread was posted on the Plant I.D. forum but it had way too many response's for me to shuffle through last night.
Your cantalope was a monster Jim and Cat hope you have a good day at work even if you have to change to a different office for the day. I actually miss working right now...believe it or not. The company I worked for had to close the door's this past June. I had been with them for almost 20 yrs.! Hopefully this economy will soon pick back up. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
11:54 AM Post #6880118
| I hope you are right Rachel but it doesn't look optimistic. To much government meddling. I believe if you leave the American People alone that our nation is smart enough and industrious to pull it's self back to stability. I think government intervention just slows the process. My opinon anyway. Hope something good opens up for you. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 29, 2009
12:04 PM Post #6880174
| Thank you Jim and I too agree with everything you just said! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
12:23 PM Post #6880244
| I'm having a cornedbeef sammy for breakfast on oatnut bread right now... mmmmm... I know it's early but I'm starved! Didn't eat dinner last night adn for some reason I was cravin a cornedbeef sammy so that's waht I'm munchin on... :-)
Ya I TRIED to get into the mint thread but it just didn't have the mojo that we have here! ^-^ After reading like 25 of their posts I got lazy and switched back to ours ^-^!
Oh ya, my HD thinks we're nuts about slugs . He thinks we talk nothing BUT slugs around here and can't FATHOM how many ways people here can talk about slugs! :-D (if he only knew...;-) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
01:16 PM Post #6880463
| He would be surprised at the extemely erudite manner in which we express ourselves. Not to mention the depth of insight of the discussions. A nuclear scientist would have trouble comprehending all we cover. And save me a bite of that sammy. AIN'T had corned beef in a coon's age. Makes me hongry jest thankin bout it.
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
01:49 PM Post #6880592
| Sometimes I wonder if I have to buy me a dictionary, gramps ^-^! You make us stop and think on some of your more "elaborate" vocabulary :-)! Your wisdom is infinite, oh shaolin master ^-^!
-the humble grasshopper
I wonder if grasshoppers eat SLUGS... |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 29, 2009
03:17 PM Post #6880941
| I'm back. Wasn't a bad trip. I actually travel around quite a bit in my job. Working on computer systems in different cities in the state. Interesting work but can be super stressful. As can any job!
If you're looking, I hope you find something Rachel. I seem to be counting the days until I can retire more all the time, and it's way too far off. Think I'm getting a little burned out |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
03:39 PM Post #6881029
| hey cat, welcome back :-)
all caught up yet? ^-^ |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 29, 2009
03:41 PM Post #6881038
| I never get caught up! But that's a good thing. Job security! :-) |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
03:53 PM Post #6881101
| ^-^ I meant reading our thread, siwwy wabbit!
But kudos on the job security :-) ! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
03:56 PM Post #6881110
| One thing about it Cat, if you are the ones who keep their computers up and going, you probably have the closest thing to job security in America today. Me, I'm a computer clutz. If I have a problem I have to call my son-in-law in Ohio. Helps don't help me because I don't speak the language. My best friend is a tech and if it's major, I load it up and carry it to him. Reason I bought a lap top this time and because I can use it in my recliner. If the problem is super bad, I call his son. He is one of those $175 an hour techs. Thankfully his wife doesn't cook and he likes country cookin. When I call him he just asks what Joanne is cooking for supper. Can't beat those prices with a stick.
Chezca, sweetie, I just threw in that stuff because someone was acting like we were a bunch of uneducated dodo's. I didn't know what any of that stuff meant but it sounded good anyway. I also see you were a fan of KungFu. Me, too.
Just looked at the mint thread and some woman who just started looking at it wanted the thread closed because the original question had been answered. Like it was hurting her. Hope she stays over there. She would sure be shocked at this gang of fun loving sluggers.
No grasshoppers won't eat slugs but they'll eat everything up that's green and then spit in your eye if you mess with them. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 29, 2009
04:42 PM Post #6881302
| Yep Chez, this was the first thread I caught up on! Makes me smile!!
You know the funny thing Jim. I don't even LIKE computers!!! :-) I rarely if ever get on from home. After staring at the screens all day long, that's the last thing I want to do. Much rather curl up with a good book! I started a new one Mon evening, so am chomping at the bit to see how they get out of the prediciment they are in! If I could get an good uninterrupted hour, I could finish it.
Sorry your melon cracked. Guess it got too big for it's britches! LOL |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
04:50 PM Post #6881341
| "Sorry your melon cracked." ^-^
Oh funny stuff! And, uh, goodluck getting that "hour" with your book (nobody can stay away from this thread for 5 mins let alone an hour!):-p
As for that "woman", she must have wayyyy more time on her hands than we do ;-). If it ain't broke, don fix it right? Leave em be, woman!
I like shaolin temple and jackie chan movies ^-^! Oh and the Drunken Master!..(haiiiii-ya!)
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 29, 2009
05:16 PM Post #6881460
| I was leaving work and trying to avoid puddles, there was a SLUG in the parking lot, far from anything green. Maybe he was waiting for the bus!
Jim I can't believe your cantaloupe broke! That stinks! I guess it got too big for it's britches! oops I just scrolled up & saw that Cat already cracked that one. Sorry! Great minds think alike... |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
05:20 PM Post #6881480
| Ooo! Oooo! I got one:
"Why did the slug cross the road...?" (be creative now...^-^) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
06:25 PM Post #6881795
| Shucks and other extremely vile words.
I had typed in a completely witty reply and lost my sat connection due to the rain and wind. I got extremely perturbed. Tuned off the computer and carried the garbage out. While strolling around the house, I was astonished to see the top of the dead pine in my back yard only inchs away from our bedroom window. I said, "Shucks," again. I wanted to vent my spleen at the power company for not cutting it like they promised, but remembered my training as a youth, "always maintain your cool." Post-haste, I went to the storage facility and removed the wheelbarrow and picked up the limbs. Ahh, job well done and nothing to repent of at Prayer Meeting tonight. Well, perhaps an unkind thought or two.
Chezca, momma, we are bound to be kin. Me an Chan are tight. Love the action. Guy is one heck of an athelete. The others I don't know but I bet I likeum. Also, the don't fix it comment is a good ole red neck saying that I use all the time. Man life is to short.
Cat, I never got on the computer much until one night I was bored and stumbled on Dave's Gardening. Met some of the greatest people around. This thread is the funnyest and most fun of all. Even got a new granddaughter out of the deal. Liked the to big for its britches. Girl, you have found a home.
Did the slug have his attenai up? Might be hitch hiking.
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 29, 2009
07:18 PM Post #6882043
| Thank's cat but in all reality, at the moment I am not looking for a job;-) I am going to take the Summer off (so to speak) and enjoy it. Believe me, I hit alot of the moment's when I was on total burn-out from mine as well!
Going out to hand pick some slugs, catch up to you all later.
Rachel
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 29, 2009
07:34 PM Post #6882121
| Cobbler is in the oven and the house is smellin LOTS better than MINT
Jim if you werent so far I'd send my hubby to cut that tree for ya then he could help with the well pump |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
08:51 PM Post #6882530
| gramma, which recipe did u try first? beam some of that stuff over please:-) i can just imagine the smell!!!! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 29, 2009
08:53 PM Post #6882548
| Chezka the slug crossed the road to eat my Harry Lauder walking stick...noticed some more of the leaves have holes...did you have a punchline ready for us? :)
boy I must be tired, I can't type! Maybe I need some superthrive ;) Did you find any yet Iluvcatz?
Rachel I admire your ability to hand pick those slimy pudgie worm things...I could never!
JJ I can smell that cobbler from here...been meaning to make some, haven't had time yet.
Cat I got a retirement statement, my date on it was 2029...I was like are you kidding you? You want another 20 years out of me?? Ack!
Jim I seriously think people expect somebody else to fix the problems. People shrug and say what can ya do. This is stupid, this isn't working, but it's the way it is what can ya do. People play dumb. Makes me nuts. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 29, 2009
09:57 PM Post #6882840
| Lynnie, I have to fess up...I use a paper-towel when hand picking those creature's;-) I only got 5 this evening so the Sluggo is kicking back in again! Yes! Those thing's just have to have a purpose here on earth but what that is, I do not know.
jjsgramma, I would say your kitchen is smelling yummy!
I have some frozen Red Heart Cherry's and blackberry's in the freezer, do you all think they are still good for a cobbler? I have never froze them before but we were blessed with lot's this year.
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
10:06 PM Post #6882871
| ...the slug HASN'T crossed the road yet cos It's still trying to make it to the gutter ^-^! (LAME I know! Been trying to come up with a good one all day :-)
Someday someone's going to invent a SuperThrive for people! Wouldn't that be something! You get sick = take superthrive! You sprain your wrist = take superthrive! Slugs are takin over your garden = take superthrive, get a sawedoff shotgun and shoot em boogers ^-^! Oh and don't forget the beer... Drink it! (after shooting. otherwise your aim ain't gonna be so great) (j/k!)
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 29, 2009
10:10 PM Post #6882889
| awww shoooot! forgot to add: lost 8 more of em peaches today. fell right on the concrete: splatt! tisk tisk! but it's all good cos the semi-dog puppy gorged himself on em :-)... We know cos his face is a nice peachy yellow with peach "pulp" hangin here and thar;-) |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 29, 2009
10:40 PM Post #6882996
| Chezca I used the one Jim gave me first cuz his used canned peaches. Jim and Lynnies recipe are almost the same.
Best air freshner around, but when I can bake in July with no air conditioning on we got something WRONG!!
Rachel they should be fine I froze some cherries last year didn't have a clue what I was doing just pitted and vaccum packed em. Made a cherry pie in April they were fine. Enjoy your time off. Work in the winter, kill slugs in the summer.
Lynnie I got lucky when the factory I worked at closed I just had 30 yrs so got to get my pension. Retired when I was 48 and NO I am not telling what year that was Jim. Got bored, now work part time 12-14 hours a week and wonder why I thought I was bored. Tighten up the budget and keep husband working it works. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
10:51 PM Post #6883037
| The cherrys and blackberries will be fine. Just take them out and use them like they were fresh. I cut a bucket full of grapes today. Jo is in a jelly making mood. All the years we were living away she never had time to make any jelly out of them. Come home one day and they would be to green, the next week starting to dry up. She likes to just eat them but they are to tart for me. Jelly should be great except she's putting it up for the kids. Tells me I can't have any because of the sugar. Hoping for a jar about half full that she can't seal. I'll tell her the slugs ate it after she went to bed. Not a total lie.
I'd tell you to get a ladder and pick the peachs, Chezca but you might fall again. Put your man up that ladder. No more peachs going splatt.
Hope the cobbler turns out great which ever recipe you use. No the grandson will enjoy it. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
10:59 PM Post #6883067
| Sold some land so I could pay off everything I owed so we could move back home. Social Security won't cut it even with my school board retirement from driving a bus. Took this associate pastorate to help make ends meet and because I love the ministering part of pastoring. Still hard to get by. Raised virtually everything we ate this summer or the budget would really be tight. Trying to keep a nest egg back so Jo will have something extra when I croak. Life isn't easy but it sure is fun. I couldn't take it if I had to completely retire. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 29, 2009
11:03 PM Post #6883084
| jj did you finish the cobbler? I'm drooling over here. Funny mine & Jim's recipes are almost the same.
I have only frozen strawberries...I find that fruit gets soggy when you defrost it, but I guess it doesn't matter if you're going to cook it. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 29, 2009
11:09 PM Post #6883104
| Thank's much Jim for the re-assurance that my frozen goodie's will work well for a cobbler. I did not know;-)
Are you going to move? Your too young to croak so don't you go talking like that!!! Your writting's are full of life.
Rachel
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 29, 2009
11:23 PM Post #6883216
| I have been vested in my pension plan for a long time...but nothing is a sure deal is it...plus it's only a drop in the bucket. SS gives people a false sense of security till they're on it, I think. It may not even be around when 2029 rolls around. I know lots of people who don't save or plan, or can't due to circumstances beyond their control...scary!
chezka 8 peaches is enough for a cobbler...maybe you should try to catch them before they hit the ground! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 29, 2009
11:24 PM Post #6883219
| I think Jim already moved... |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
11:40 PM Post #6883273
| I resigned my last full time pastorate in October will be 2 years ago. We owned a home at Delhi and moved back. We had always kept it furnished because the kids wanted to be "Home" for Christmas. We had to do some remodeling and replace the heating and cooling unit. Tried to get everything down that might need fixing in the future while we had the money to do it. Even replaced all the plumbing inside the house. We have enjoyed being back home. Our yard had gone to pot because all we could do was drive in one day a week and mow. Took 2 summers of hard work to get it back in shape. Guess that's one reason I wanted everyone to look at our photos.
The tree jjs has got to come down from the top. Power lines on one side and my house on the other. Power company was supposed to take it down last spring but couldn't get it dry enough before the farmer put in his crop. Trying to wait until he gets his corn harvested so I'll have a place to burn it. There is another pine beside it that is starting to die. Southern pine beetles are killing them. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 29, 2009
11:45 PM Post #6883293
| Did you guys get the same mental image I did of Chezca running around under that tree with her catchers mitt on and face mask. Gee whiz it was funny especially when she had to make that running dive to catch one. And the sitting over there watching with his tongue out and his tail just a wagging with a big ole dumb smile on his face. Oh goodness, it is to funny for words. You gotta see it. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 29, 2009
11:55 PM Post #6883323
| Ok, what's the difference in "white peache's vs. ummmmmmmmm , the other type peache's. Here White peache's are said to be the Ultimate in flavor? I have a white peach tree, so I was told anyway's.
Rachel
edit to add, Chezca , I can visualize you now ;-)
This message was edited Jul 29, 2009 11:58 PM |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 29, 2009
11:58 PM Post #6883331
| lol sounds like Amelia Bedelia...funny Jim!
I haven't looked at your pics yet, I can't find the part of whichever thread that says where they are lol only about 1000 posts to scroll through, I'm just being lazy. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 29, 2009
11:59 PM Post #6883360
| in peaches i know ripe and not so ripe, that's about it rachel! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 30, 2009
12:07 AM Post #6883401
| I don't know a lot about peaches but the guy that brings my wife peachs brought some white ones over the other day and they were good. He insisted I try a bite and it had a great flavor. I would assume you use one peach just like another.
Dmail me and I'll send you my email address. I have to send you an invitation to view them. They are uploaded to Kodak Easy Share. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
06:25 AM Post #6883822
| Jim I have your email address, you sent me recipes. :) |
iluvcatz
Westerly, RI
July 30, 2009
08:00 AM Post #6883981
| Peaches.
Well, they come from a can
They where put there by a man
In a factory down town |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
08:49 AM Post #6884117
| Spoken like a true city chick iluvcatz |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 30, 2009
09:15 AM Post #6884206
| I agree the fruit will be fine for cobblers and pies after being frozen. Most of the pies I make are with frozen fruits.
White peaches are supposed to be sweeter than the old fashioned yellow fleshed ones. I have had trees of both. The whites have a good flavor and are sweet, but for pies etc, I can never bring myself to use them. Guess it's a mindset but a peach pie should have yellow peaches! :-)
If I can make it a few more years, I should have a halfway decent retirement. I will have SS, a small retirement from my job, and some from a thrift savings plan which is like a 401K. I've been trying to plan ahead for several years, to get some bills paid off so that will make it easier. Gotta think ahead these days.
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
10:51 AM Post #6884579
| Ha-ha you guys ^-^ very funny! Am I supposed to stand under the peach tree and wait? :-) Nah, I think our semi-dog puppy's gonna take care of all future-fallen peaches ok;-)
Ya, before we bought this house, I thought peaches only come in cans! :-D |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
12:15 PM Post #6884947
| Save the Peaches Chezka! waste not want not! |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 30, 2009
12:30 PM Post #6885010
| LOL. I just bought some peaches from a road side stand. (Peach trees were at my old house). And am thinking I will make one of the recipes this evening. Peach cobbler sounds good! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
01:55 PM Post #6885399
| Peace pie a la mode... mmmmmmm...
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
01:57 PM Post #6885404
| hey btw, where's gramps? ^-^ I don't see him in the mint thread and he hasn't posted in a while... hmmmm... Hope he's ok... |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 30, 2009
02:16 PM Post #6885461
| Stayed up too late last night after pigging out on grape jelly? :-)
I meant to mention you can make grap jelly with splenda and not be able to tell much difference. And no sugar!
I'm sure he is fine. Hey Jim, check in would you??!! The hens are worrying. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
02:19 PM Post #6885471
| peace with ice cream on top...I like it. Chezka did you mean to write peace pie or peach pie?
I'm sure Jim is doing some rounds at the hospital or making a veggie drop. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
02:21 PM Post #6885479
| I have to confess, I just posted the 500th post on the Thread Formerly Known As Mint...I feel a teensy bit guilty...
but slugs still rule! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
02:23 PM Post #6885483
| LOL "PEACH" ma friend! :-) (fingers are faster than ma brain ya'll) ^-^ |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
02:26 PM Post #6885491
| Lynnie?!? Feels like you cheated on us :( How could ya?!? :-) We should call the slug cops on ya...^-^
Check out Mr. Miami Vice dude... He's fierce!
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
02:27 PM Post #6885496
| Chezka you're 500th!
(hanging my head in shame) |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 30, 2009
02:33 PM Post #6885520
| LOL. Are we still racing with them? If anyone has dial up they won't be able to load the threads |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
02:45 PM Post #6885565
| Us?!? Racing?!? Nu-uh! :-)
Almost lunch time... Gettin a sizzlin beef fajita...mmmmm! (I love food, can you tell?:-) |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
02:48 PM Post #6885573
| slugs don't race ;)
I could use a sizzling beef fajita right now... |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 30, 2009
02:55 PM Post #6885601
| Me too! I had taco salad. Chez are you 2 hours ahead of us here, or just 1? It's 1:54 here |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
04:10 PM Post #6885895
| Me not know cat^-^! I'm pacific standard time...
Man I'm stufft! had two of em fajitas and them were gooo-oood! mm-mmmm! :-) |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
July 30, 2009
04:27 PM Post #6885988
| LOL. Time for a nap!
I'm out of here for the day! And off tomorrow so i get a long weekend. Hope you all have a good one.
I'm starting to wonder about Jim now too! Hope all is ok |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
July 30, 2009
05:42 PM Post #6886294
| Jeez you guys can write alot in a day!!!! The cobbler got done and my son took half home with him when it came out of the oven. Got up early, was gonna have some with my coffee and it was gone. Musta been GOOOD..
Jim don't matter if it has to be cut from the top we had a giant patalpet ( sure that's misspelled) tree between our house and the neighbors garage and couldn't be reached with bucket truck so he climbed up the tree pulled a ladder up with a rope , somehow stood it up on a branch leaning against the trunk tied rope to a branch and started cutting . The neighbor came out of his house just as a big chunk of tree was swinging over his garage by a rope hollering something about his corvette being in the garage and we better have insurance. My husband laughed and said "It's your car I don't have insurance for it". Took that whole tree down one piece at a time.
This was this guys last meal. Hope he enjoyed it. Gotta go out and do bug control.
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 30, 2009
05:54 PM Post #6886350
| Been at the hospital since before eight this morning. It's an hours drive from my home. Just got back a few minutes ago. I'm glad to know I was missed. I missed all of you today, as well. Didn't have nearly as much fun as I did yesterday with you guys while it was raining. We are up to about six inchs for the week.
Chezca, I am having to rebuild my mental image of what you look like. Seems like all you do is make us hungry telling what you are eating. I might better put a little more padding on you.
Eating is a great pastime. I think I'll shoot for 260 again. Think of all the fun I could have putting that weight back on. Man, makes me hungry thinking about it. Got the munchies last night before bed. ate all the sliced tomatoes left from supper (the meal us red necks eat at night).
I don't know how old you are cat but take it from one who didn't know enough to do any planning for the retirement time, make a plan and stick to it. Money buys less and less.
Lynn, I'll see it I can pull up you email. Had 2 Lynns ask for the receipe. Think I know which one you are. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 30, 2009
06:19 PM Post #6886444
| Good evening everyone and thanks for the information on white peache's. The tree is located on a small piece of land that I purchased last year so this year I get the fruit;-)
All the food you all have talked about today has made me hungry too. Love Mexican food!
Cat, your smart for planning ahead. I've definately tried as well...got too now day's;-)
Jim, I will d-mail you for your email addy. I would enjoy viewing your picture's. Thank's
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
06:42 PM Post #6886539
| Jim! What do you mean you don't know which Lynn I am?? I am the fresh one with the mouth who paints her mom's arbor, bakes her blueberry muffins and sasses her all at once! Grrrrrr. You have incurred my wrath. Even an ol' redneck knows better than to admit to confusing two women...you must be very tired indeed my friend! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
07:10 PM Post #6886629
| Oooo child! Don't hurt gramps (too much) Lynnie ^-^!
I do soooo love food :-)... But (not to brag ['guess it sounds like it no matter what I say^-^]) I tip the scales at a very decent weight! (Yeah SAYS ME!:-) Let's just say I'm the equivalent of 3 semi-dog puppies in weight (oh okay, four then!) :-). I thank my parents' genes for that!
Flash-toasted cubed maters n sweet onions with cheese and sesame seeds on a sliver of warm toasted frenchie french bread... lip-smackin gooood! Ooo and a tall glass of good ol fashion lemon iced tea! yummmmmmm! That's just for appetizers ;-)!
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
07:30 PM Post #6886726
| Chezka, I am secretly trying to get Jim to spit out his sweetened iced tea onto his laptop screen on a big guffaw...ssshhh! ;) plus I like to see him back pedal & turn on the southern charm. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 30, 2009
10:00 PM Post #6887464
| I sit here, broken and contrite. My heart aches because I have angered on that I love. With all the gallentry of a true Southern gentleman, I most humbly bed your pardon. If that don't just tear the heart out of you what will. Man, I could here the violins, smell the roses and taste the wine. Thunderbird, $2 a quart. You OK now Lynnie?
I'm gonna Goggle me a semi-dog puppy and see what size they come in. Then Chezca, I'll know. I didn't have quite the gormet tread you did but it was pretty good. I had Elk steak, smothered down with onions, fresh ruby red tomatoes (sliced), delectabe cucumbers, just a taste of fried okrs, yellow squash and onions steamed down and iced tea with lemon. (sweetened with Splenda)
I guess Lynn, I was getting back what I had given out. When I was in college, I roomed with a boy who had two girls he was going steady with. He wrote them both a letter and put them in their respective, addressed envelopes. Left them laying on the table and went to borrow a couple of stamps. I switched letters on him. When he got back, he was just fixing to seal them, I was busy studying, should have known something was up when he saw me studying, the sorry rascal decided to reread the letters before mailing them. Thought he had errored, and I never told him I had pulled the switch. Didn't want to have to whip him. Lucky rascal. Who was it said, "The devil made me do it." |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
10:18 PM Post #6887550
| how was the sweetened iced tea...did you spit it out in surprise? I'm not sure if "bedding" somebody's pardon is a southern thing or what...I'll hold off on that till I check my Emily Post HAHAHA where are your specs?
Jim did you dislike the boy's lying ways, or just the boy? Interesting story. I think it was more your strong opinions than the devil that made you do it :) |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 30, 2009
10:56 PM Post #6887738
| Ok Jim, just got to ask...what does Elk taste like? Anything like Venison?
Rachel |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 30, 2009
11:03 PM Post #6887755
| I went home with him one week-end to go to the State Fair and met both those girls. They were both very pretty and sweet and deserved better than what he was giving them. That's the real reason I switched them. I think he smelled a rat though because he never left one of their letters laying around or one that he was writing to them.
If I had been drinking tea, I probably would have. Instead I just had to wipe the slobber off.
I'm sorry about the bedding down but that is par for the course for me. I was marrying this couple one time, in a horse barn no less, I looked at the man and asked, "Will you have this woman to be your lawfully, bedded wife."
Being quick on my feet, I said, "Oops, that comes later, doesn't it." |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
11:05 PM Post #6887766
| rachel i worked in a restaurant that had game month, I tried them all...the elk was less gamey than bear but I remember it being less tender than venison, although the venison had been slow cooked, so that may have accounted for that. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 30, 2009
11:07 PM Post #6887771
| Elk is better than venison and I believe I like it better than beef. Has no wild gamey taste either. Haven't been hunting in years but if get a chance to go to Mo. with the guy that gave me the meat, I'm going. Would love to have one of those in the freezer. In fact they are so big I'd probably have to buy another freezer. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
11:09 PM Post #6887781
| And I thought ya dinna eat meat! ^-^
I call our dog SEMI-DOG PUPPY cos he still thinks he's a puppy :-) Acts like one too! He's already 14 months old! He still wants you to carry him in your arms and lull him to sleep! He's a lhasa apso mix, mostly white with brown spots. He's just a cutiepie!
That's him (the one that looks a lot like a butt) with his friend...
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Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
11:11 PM Post #6887790
| Don't worry tho. his friend isn't DEAD. He just thinks she's a chewtoy ^-^! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
11:13 PM Post #6887804
| jim maybe you just like your naps... |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 30, 2009
11:14 PM Post #6887810
| Thank's, I have heard that Elk is quite tasty but I have never tried it.
Rachel |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
11:20 PM Post #6887830
| any wild meat seems gamey to me, because I'm used to supermarket stuff...if you're used to it Rachel, you'd probably like it.
Chezka have you been out catching peaches? That's a cute dog! Thought those legs sticking up were his ears at first...pretty funny! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
11:26 PM Post #6887856
| Thanks Lynnie :)
Here's the day's harvest...
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 30, 2009
11:26 PM Post #6887858
| Lynnie, I grew up in a family who loved to hunt game, so yes, I do enjoy eating some game meat from time to time;-) The out-come is all in the way "wild game" is prepared and cooked.
Rachel |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
11:29 PM Post #6887865
| The tree... 
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 30, 2009
11:30 PM Post #6887867
| Chezca, my harvest of peache's are not looking that good...Yet;-)
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
11:30 PM Post #6887868
| Rachel I grew up in a family who loved to hunt shoes *grin*
Chezka I believe you have enough peaches there to make cobbler for us all... |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
11:30 PM Post #6887870
| Last one :-) I promise
The perfect peach...
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
July 30, 2009
11:31 PM Post #6887873
| shoot now I want to eat one! |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 30, 2009
11:32 PM Post #6887876
| Tell me bout it! Arrrghhhh! And my DH don't eat em so it's just me and my sil... There's only SO MANY peaches one can eat in a day! This is about the time when I start "peach withdrawals" :-) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 31, 2009
11:29 AM Post #6889411
| Hey Chezca, I don't eat them either. Don't let them waste. Go get some fruit fresh from the grocer and freeze them.
Going snap bean pickin. See you later. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
July 31, 2009
11:33 AM Post #6889428
| You don't eat peaches?!? What is wrong with you?!? ^-^ Is it a "guy thing"?
What are snap beans? Are those like edamame from japanese restaurants? |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 31, 2009
03:34 PM Post #6890380
| Don't like fruit except for bananas. The monkey in me I guess. If cantalopes are considered a fruit, I like them. Snap beans, you probably call them green beans. Got to finish mowing before it rains again. Check you guys out tonight. Catch the peachs. No splats. Dog doesn't need to eat them. Makeum po po a heap. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 31, 2009
11:17 PM Post #6892375
| Snap bean's are grown in one's garden;-0 They snap when you break each individual bean into several piece's to cook/pressure cook. I use to sit on the front porch with my Grand-Ma and snap away;-) Much better than canned green bean's anyday of the week:-)
Jim hope you got your lawn mowed before the rain's. It's been raining here on and off for several day's and my little stream that run's through the property is now a small creek ...once again! The weather has gotten "off balance" here since Fall of 2008 and I am not looking forward to the Winter month's at all here in our part of Virginia!
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
July 31, 2009
11:42 PM Post #6892464
| Got it mowed Rachael, except for one ditch that doesn't drain. Has to evaporate. Good Louisiana engineering. Think I'm going to buy one of those electric pumps before next spring. We got over an inch last night. None today. The grass had gotten a little tall because we've got six inchs total this week. I lime and fertilize my yard and have to mow twice a week, normally. Only thing that saved my bacon was it was drough stressed from the nearly two months of 100 degree dry weather we had. Finally was able to get started about noon. Temp was mild but the humity was a beast.
I was amazed earlier when the string beans began to put on new foliage and bloom. I had left them to shade the squash. This is the second mess I have gotten and had a lot that had gotten to big. Was just to tied up last week to check them. Learned one thing don't pull them up when they quit bearing, water them jokers.
I've got some of your same memories or sitting on the porch and snapping beans with my mother. Back then the old variaties had to be stringed. Remember those. The ones we have now have not strings. Just snap away or snip. Most of the time we use sissors and cut them. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
July 31, 2009
11:50 PM Post #6892498
| Thank's Jim, forgot I had to string them before snapping!
Geesh, and I thought we were getting rain! Is this a strange year "weather-wise" for you neck of the wood's?
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 01, 2009
12:01 AM Post #6892535
| June and July the temps hit around the 100 mark with not rain at all. I think one time I got an inch but a half mile up the road nothing. Rains like that don't really do any good. Then this week we got in the weather pattern and the temp dropped to a day time high of 78 for two or three days then up to about 85 for the rest of the week. Temps like this are really rare at this time of the year. Our whole area has gotten rain this week but the amounts have differered dramaticly. It has rained every day at my house and sometimes several times. I got two big rains at night. Like I said, I've had 6 inchs but some of the farmers five or six miles from me have only gotten an inch, unless they got that last night. Strange. The forecast shows the rain dissipating and out temps will be back to a 100 in a couple of days. I guess this is good because the corn harvest was just getting under way. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
August 01, 2009
07:29 AM Post #6893077
| Jim six inches is a lot of rain in a week...yikes. We've had rain every couple days, cloudy in between, and maybe one day of sun here & there. Normally it's just hot & sunny. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 01, 2009
12:33 PM Post #6893955
| Yep a lot of rain. We were so dry that the ground soaked it up fast. The lettuce and radishs I planted a couple of days ago are already up. Carrots have a few up. Guess the rain did them good. |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
August 02, 2009
07:47 AM Post #6896870
| I think we're getting more rain today...I'm lucky to get one area weeded every couple days.
Plus on the nice days I want to take the kids swimming or to the beach or whatever, so it's hard to get the yard work in. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 02, 2009
08:24 AM Post #6896959
| Good morning all. Lynnie, yesterday was the first full day in a week that we have not had rain! It's pouring cat's and dog's right now and my road is gutted out. I am ready for a dry spell.
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cat64129
(Cathy), MO
August 02, 2009
01:42 PM Post #6897939
| Hi everyone. It's been as gorgeous weekend here. Decent temps and rain overnight. I haven't had to water anything for a week! Sounds like we are going to get back into the 90's this week. It was nice while it lasted! :-)
Jim, are there Elk in MO? Or did I misunderstand? I know we have an over abundance of deer but I don't know anyone who hunts elk here. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 02, 2009
09:10 PM Post #6899607
| You had one. Cause I've been eating part of it. Where they were hunting, I don't know.
Been sick all week end. Started having sever chill yesterday about 5 p.m. We were 60 miles from home. Jo finally got me home. She hates to drive. Been running a 101.1 temp ever since. Finally got it to 99. Going to the doctor tomorrow. Probably won't hear from me tonight. Maybe I'll check you tomorrow. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 02, 2009
09:31 PM Post #6899683
| Jim, I sure hope you start feeling better soon! Let us all know what the doc. tell's you tomorrow. Hopefully it's just a 48 hr. bug eating at you!
Cat, wishing you a wonderful new work week tomorrow! It finally stopped raining here late this afternoon...suppose to be dry until Wednesday atleast.
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Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
August 02, 2009
11:19 PM Post #6900129
| Jim take care of yourself! Get some rest. Hope it isn't elk fever haha just kidding.
yikes new work week already? that was quick. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
August 03, 2009
09:01 AM Post #6901083
| Thanks Rachel. I keep thinking I need to be independently wealthy and not have to work, but it hasn't panned out that way. not yet anyway! :-)
Hope you feel better Jim. Hoping it was just one of those 24 hr bugs and it's all gone this morning.
Good morning everyone else! It's a beautiful morning here |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
August 03, 2009
11:07 AM Post #6901568
| Hey guys ^-^! Went on a mini-staycation over the weekend (explains my radio silence) :-)
Gramps, you make sure to do what (first) your wife tells you to do THEN what the DOCTOR tells you to do :-)! Hope you start feeling better :(
Hi ya cat, Lynnie, Rachel! A good (blech) MONDAY mornin to ya all! |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
August 03, 2009
11:10 AM Post #6901576
| Hey Chez. Do anything fun? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
August 03, 2009
11:45 AM Post #6901708
| ^-^ we "stayed" in our couch and watched like six movies back to back :-)! threw a surprise (potluck) party the next day then picked, you guessed it, peaches all day sunday :-)... Yep, that was purdy much it but it was refreshingly relaxing and enjoyable... Didn't hafta spend a nickel :-)! |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
August 03, 2009
12:25 PM Post #6901865
| I love those "down" times. Theres nothing like just taking a break from the rest of the world and relaxing. Regroup, so to speak! :-)
So glad you had a good weekend. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
01:46 PM Post #6902209
| Hi all my buddies. Doc filled my rear with shots and my pockets with pills. Feel better, just washed out from the chills and fever. Got to 102 last night. Just a dose of the "old mans problems" was the diagnosis.
Cat, talked to the elk man and he bagged that bugger in northeast Mo. about 50 miles from the Iowa line.
You get the man up on the ladder Chezca? Wishing for some peach fried pies like my grandma used to make. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
August 03, 2009
03:00 PM Post #6902522
| The "man" was standing there and pointing us to the ripe peaches... :-) Yes we couldn't have done it without him ^-^!
You should take it easy there, gramps! Ya ain't 21 nomore, mind ya...
FRIED pies?!? Watdahek! That sounds sooo not good for ya but yet sounds soooo good! |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
August 03, 2009
03:07 PM Post #6902552
| Glad you are feeling better Jim. No telling what's up in the northern section of the state! I know they get alot colder weather up there. More snow etc.
Fried peach pies ARE delicious Chez. Fried apple pie too! Makes me hungry thinking about it!
Where is everyone else today? |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
03:30 PM Post #6902635
| My grandparents lived in the hills of Tennessee. They had apple and apricot trees. They had a dug cellar under the old house and it was always full of dried fruit, strung peppers, jars of canned veggies, and of course potatoes and onions. Grandma would take that dried fruit and make those delicious fried pies. She had a warming oven over that big ole wood stove and it always had a bunch of those pies in it. Man kind alive, those were the days. Course, it had its downside, too. Remember my uncle running me and my cousin out of the apple trees. "Them green apples ah tear you up." Didn't believe him, so waited to dark to eat our fill. Guess what, before daylight we were real tore up. If you know what I mean.
P.S. Apricot was my favorite. The dried fruit you buy in the store is not the same. |
cat64129
(Cathy), MO
August 03, 2009
03:40 PM Post #6902684
| Did your grandma have "shukky beans" too? |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
August 03, 2009
05:13 PM Post #6903069
| Hey guys, what do i do to get rid of squirrels and a possum? The possum's driving our dogs mad and the squirrels are driving me insane! |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
August 03, 2009
08:11 PM Post #6903705
| Hello all! One more day of work then I'm off for almost 2 weeks...I'm hoping to post some pictures soon...just got a load of rocks dropped off from a friend (I wonder if he thinks I'm strange for wanting his rocks) and I need help in designing my garden.
(and boy that didn't come out right but I stopped myself from the writing the next sentence) I'm slap wore out from work & our weekend get-away!
How's that for Southern? |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
August 03, 2009
08:46 PM Post #6903862
| Hi everyone, Jim sending you some flowers to feel better .
Chezca, made your sil peach cobbler saturday. Tell her thanks for the recipe site, also made cabbage rolls for first time. Jims recipe is a lot less work but they are both REALLY GOOD according to my peach eaters. You sil recipe is a lot sweeter and crust is like a pie. Jims has more of a peach flavor and cobbler crust. I have orders from the boss( at least I let him think he is) that the next one will be cherry . Well better get back to my kitchen I have one more batch of corn to freeze tonight. Beans and peppers are done for now.
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 03, 2009
09:31 PM Post #6904063
| Hi everyone! Jim so good to read that you are feeling much better;-) Chezca, glad you had a nice weekend and jjsgramma...love that daylily!!! Beautiful.
Yes, Lynnie it was Monday! Cat, I am by no mean's independantly wealthy either but I am doing OK right now even with out a job at the present. I just do not have much debt and I am taking advantage of my un-employment benefit's plus I have a good man who take's care of me too;-)
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
10:02 PM Post #6904203
| Thanks for the flowers jjs. Day Lilys happen to be my favorite. Got a bunch of pretty ones in the yard but yours is a real knockout. Know exactly where to plant it.
I think I have converted Lynnie. A true southern girl at heart. Course you have to learn to flutter your eyes and say, "Well, bless his heart."
You got me on "shuky beans" cat. That's one I haven't heard of. If they're edible, I'll try them. Do they go good with cornbread. Shucks, everything goes good with corn bread.
Way I got this figured Rachael, that if you have a good man taking care of you, then you must be a good woman taking care of her man. Two way street.
Tomorrow me and the wife fight, I'm gonna mow the yard. She says no I'm not. Guess we find out who wears the britchs. |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 03, 2009
10:12 PM Post #6904255
| Hey Jim. I am not Cat but my memorie's of a "shuck bean" ...green bean's that you let dry out before you cut them up and soak them a while before cooking them ! Add in a lil good ole fat back for taste.
Yes, My Bob is a very good man! He was very hard for me to find...guess he found me though in all reality;-)
Rachel |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
August 03, 2009
10:12 PM Post #6904262
| Yup it sure was monday, Rachel, every which way! I'm glad you're doing ok, things are tough for a lot of people right now.
Jim believe me, I can flutter with the best of them ;) but the closest I've come to that saying is "well god bless him" which can sound a hundred different ways.
Cat what are shukky beans?
I agree with you Chezka fried pie sounds good! |
RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 03, 2009
10:17 PM Post #6904289
| Yes, Lynnie, thing's are alot tougher than what I know for alot of people. I thank God for his blessing's on us here!
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
10:22 PM Post #6904316
| Fried pies is a lost art. Gramma was the best, Momma ran a close second. I think it because the dried fruit is so much different today. We used to slip down to the cellar and pull it right off the string and eat it. It was delicious.
In Red Neck you can say anything you want about somebody as long as you end it with, "Well bless his heart." Make sense? Gotta be a red neck. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
10:31 PM Post #6904363
| Rachael, you ever wondered how some of these old folks buy their medicine. I stayed with driving a school bus for a long time just for the insurance. With it I have to pay a max of $50 on a high dollar name brand. At one time I was taking 4 and Jo 2 that cost $50. That's still a lot to lay out each month but I wasn't on a fixed income then. Most of ours are generic now except for 3 and our doctor keeps us in samples of those. I have seen some of these old timers go in to the drug store with a shoe box full of perscriptions. How can they afford it. They're cutting corners someway. |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
August 03, 2009
10:38 PM Post #6904392
| Chezca just shoot em.
Jim my moneys on the wife. Corse if I lose I will have to pay you in pennies.
Rachel Day lilies grow good here. Thanks for the compliment.
Lynnie are you on vacation now?
Have another flower .
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 03, 2009
10:43 PM Post #6904424
| Jim, I honestly do not know how some people are able to purchase prescription drug's with out having insurance! I myself at the age of "a young..grin" 43 and Bob being quite a few year's older than me...we have never taken any type! We do believe in a few herb's though;-)
Fried apple pie's...my mom's was the best! I have not had any in moon's though! Mother made the best!
Rachel |
Lynnie6868
(Zone 5b)
August 03, 2009
10:48 PM Post #6904443
| Jim my friend taught me that but few people here understand it, so i use the modified version.
Some people split their pills or only take one every other day, instead of every day, to try to stretch it out. Or go even a few days.It's sad that in this country, in this day, people have to do that. And some pills shouldn't be split, it's dangerous.
Hope your rear is recovered ;)
jj i gotta make a cobbler! i've been so busy I won't get to it till next week. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
10:48 PM Post #6904444
| Well this is the only one I have handy. First time I believe I ever saw one with three blooms on one stem. 
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 03, 2009
10:53 PM Post #6904467
| jjsgramma, you are going to be asked to start naming cultivar's with your beautie's before long!
Chezca, I honestly do not know what to tell you concerning your problem with your critter's. I just noticed a few week's ago that we have a rather large white with silver tip's "squirrel" here. Got that bugger on video ! The opposum's well...those thing's are a mixed story for me here. I will keep those to myself though;-)
Rachel |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
August 03, 2009
10:55 PM Post #6904485
| Jim, I know what you mean. One of the generics I have to take is $36.00 a month. We have to pay for our prescriptions now until deductible is met. Only met it once in 3 years before. I even changed our generics to one that Our hy vee grocery store pharmacy sell for $4.00 month or $10.00 3 months and my DH still works full time. |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
August 03, 2009
11:09 PM Post #6904552
| Rachel I'll tell you everything I know. I have two different red ones , a yellow one , and orange one. A yellow stella D'or and I just got a purple D'or.
And this one we call a lemon daylily. Best thing is most were free. I tried to figure out which ones they were once but theres way to many that look alike.
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
11:12 PM Post #6904569
| Well Chezca, if you were down south you'd bake that possum with some sweet taters. Maybe some collards on the side a big hunk of pone. Maybe a glass of buttermilk. Now that's living.
Or you could spend $50 bucks for a life trap and take some sardines and bait that sucker in, then haul him off and release him. Personally, I pop them there jokers with the 20 gauge. Course citified neighbors might frown on that.
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
August 03, 2009
11:17 PM Post #6904585
| Everyone thinks I'm crazy because I buy all the bowling balls I find. Specially if they are colored. And do this with them 
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jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
August 03, 2009
11:22 PM Post #6904612
| Jim I've eaten squirrel and racoon but never a possum |
jjsgramma
Woodhull, IL
(Zone 5a)
August 03, 2009
11:25 PM Post #6904627
| OOPs that was wrong pic 
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 03, 2009
11:26 PM Post #6904635
| Thank you jjsgramma!
Jim, Pone bread ring's my bell!! My best visual picture of my Papa (on my mother's side) was of him sitting at a big table eating cornbread in a cup of buttermilk for breakfast/lunch/dinner;-) |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 03, 2009
11:26 PM Post #6904636
| Do you like the 'dor day lilies. I personally never cared for them. All mine are knee highs. The breeder, who sold me his seedlings, pulled up and burned everything that got over knee high. We lost several unique colors in the years we were away from home. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:00 AM Post #6904755
| Well it's time for a story. I've never eaten possum either. Heres why.
Uncle Fred's last mule died. He took that ole B John Deere tractor and pulled him off in the woods. My cousin and I were about twelve at the time, and our favorite pass time was roving those woods. We stumbled up on that ole mule and stood there considering. Low and behold that ole mules sides were moving. "Daddy done drug off ole Jack and he ain't even dead yet. Well sir, we double dog dared each other to kick that ole mule and make him get up. We could just see how proud Unc would be when we came back leadin ole Jack. Finally, when the darin was over, we decided it was a job for bothus. Bold as brass, we walked right up and kicked the snot out of that dang mule. He didn't get up but 17 possums run out his rear end. So, I don't eat possum.
Squirrel and coon, now that's a different story. If'n you know how to get them kernels out from under their arms, they're purty good eatin. |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:29 AM Post #6904825
| I guess no one liked my day lily. So I thought I'd post a few more to see if there was one you liked. This is my favorite and the photo doesn't do it justice. Prettiest yellow I've ever seen. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:32 AM Post #6904838
| Same thing different shot. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:35 AM Post #6904846
| How about this delicate lady. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:38 AM Post #6904856
| Pretty in pink. 
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RachelLF
Rural Retreat, VA
August 04, 2009
12:40 AM Post #6904861
| Wow, keep those pic's coming all! I am enjoying them. I admire the daylily's but love the Asiatic;-)
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:41 AM Post #6904864
| Bold and sassy. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:45 AM Post #6904877
| All day lilies. No asiactic. I call this one tiger. 
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Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
12:49 AM Post #6904889
| This a picture of the prettiest rose in my garden. 
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cat64129
(Cathy), MO
August 04, 2009
09:08 AM Post #6905512
| Good morning everyone. Congrats Lynnie for getting 2 weeks off! I have the first week in Sept down to take off but it is SO slow coming! :-) Gonna do anything fun?
Rachel, that's them! Shukky beans I mean. I lived in KY for almost a year way back when. One of the older ladies had strings of shukky beans hanging all over the place in her utility room. Cooked a big pot with fat back, and fixed cornbread in her cast iron skillet with a broken handle. And they were good to go! That was the first time I'd ever heard of shukky beans. |
Chezca
Hayward (Z8b-9a), CA
(Zone 8b)
August 04, 2009
11:00 AM Post #6905897
| I HAVE thought about shootin them boogers..! But were butted right to a small city park and they live in the park! They just come after our nectarines and peaches and heckel the dogs! Right now my dogs and I have developed this strategy. One of them whimpers as soon as he hears a commotion then both of them stare at the offender until I come up behind them with the hose set on JETS then WHAM! It's really fun but I just can't do it all the time!
I don't think the park ranger will take too kindly with the 12-gauge :-) My DH says use a BB gun, but those things are toys and you won't even draw blood ^-^! I think I'll start planting a thorny bush along the fence. Maybe they'd get stuck in it and find their mummified remains next spring!
Oooo the possum really feraks me out! I wouldn't even go in the backyard when that monstrosity's on the fence! It's EVIL! It's GROSS! It's akkkkkk! It's fugly! It gives me goosbumps just thinkin about it! AKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!! (it's basically a possessed zombie rat-mouse on steroids! I HATE rats!) Brrrrrrr!!!!
Btw, awesome flowers and that's a one-of-a-kind rose in yar garden there gramps! |
Jim41
Delhi, LA
August 04, 2009
11:52 AM Post #6906049
| I like my flowers especially my rose. A one of a kind.
Might try a pellet rifle. They work off of compressed air and make no noise. They are dangerous, because they pack enough punch to kill a squirrel. I can't hack possums. Don't like their looks.
Morning Cat. Your looking forward to Sept. I'm looking forward to Christmas. That's when my babies come home for about ten days. Hard to wait.
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