Another interesting post as usual. Has Child Protective Services contacted you about allowing that young girl to play with highly toxic seeds? I have seen many news articles about this year's crazy weather (they are on every summer, this one is no different). All of them mentioned what a blast furnace Texas is right now. I hope the rain gods will soon smile on you.
Hi Les. I am expecting a call sometime this week after posting this. When she was younger I caught her collecting these lethal red seeds! The pods dry up and crack open, depositing their contents on the ground. Every year now I pick the seedpods before this happens. She knows every poisonous plant in the garden (most by name) but my youngest hobbit would be onto these "peanuts of pain" in a heartbeat.
I don't think it is ever going to rain again. ESP.
What a great post. It reminded me of a necklace I made for my little sister out of the red burning beans and the black beans out of a Mexican Buckeye, one red, one black, all the way around. She wore it for years. That was in about 1965 so nobody cared about poison back then.
Your bug pictures are great. You must be the absolute best bug stalker I've ever seen. I picture you in a stop frame kind of stalk, moving slowly, then fast, then slow again. Bob
Cheers Bob! I contribute my bug stalking skills to years of above ground hunting in Scotland, pheasants pigeon, rabbits, etc. I learned from an extremely young age how to "get up to nature", but the patience required to capture it on film is still a struggle for me.
You really did hit the stalking technique on the head, it is the only one that works with a camera...fast approach, then slow for the macro shot,(no breathing allowed)! Then fast again to excitedly download the shot to a computer!
I will post one of my old Scottish pheasant poaching stories soon! ESP.
Hi Ivette. Thank you for all the nice things you said! I don't know where to start, except to say your words of encouragement really do encourage me in these dog-days of summer. I always love reading your take on my posts, so you keep that heart beating at full force, you hear me? :-) I will have a word with the ESP witches if you would like, to see if they have an opening in their "Brugmansia" coven. They have all been very "tense" of late with the stringing of the first poison necklace in the ESP.
The heat has claimed a few casualties in the patch, but I make enough rounds that I have a really close connection with what is going on, who needs a pint of the finest ale,(usually me) etc. I am concerned though as I have a trip to the home-land coming up.
Great to hear from you as always, I hope all is going well in Merida. Have a tequila shot on me when you come up for air.
I try to never mention hunting in my blog even though I am an avid bowhunter and fly fisher. I think what few readers I have would leave me as I'm pretty sure most are seriously against it.
One of my very best friends, Rachel Allenby is from over yonder. She runs a shooting club down the road from the house. She works her dogs over the 485 acres twice a day in the cooler weather and that is at 62 yrs. of age. She's a four time cancer survivor and is going through treatment for a different cancer right now. She is the single toughest woman I've ever known. I think you just made up my mind to post about her on my blog as I took pictures of her plants when we were at her cancer party a couple weeks ago. Thanks ESP, Bob
I used to hunt in Scotland for food, whatever I caught would end up on the dinner table for dinner...mmm, pheasants! I also learned how to tie my own fishing flies in Scotland, a lot of fun. I have taken a few vacations to the Yucatan and Belize since I have lived in Texas to fly-fish for bone fish, though they are extremely difficult to catch, very easily spooked. It was a really good way to learn to cast long distances in a head-wind though!
Rachel sounds like a real character, I look forward to hearing more about this lady from over yonder soon.
Gorgeous girl - pretty necklace - another great post, naturally. It is apparently too hot for me to garden, blog about gardening, or perhaps even comment on other people's garden blogs. That is HOT!
The El Nino gods may have heard your prayer - I keep reading we are expected to be wetter than normal (I hope they don't mean normal for this summer by that) this winter. Trowels crossed!
Hi TD! She said thanks, and for complete novices the necklace turned out better than expected. I think we have another three to go! I have promised the ESP witches one after-all.
I hope El Niño will be all what they are saying it is going to be, I will be waiting with baited breath! So tired of this inferno heat and drought at this point, the plant casualties are increasing on a weekly basis right now it seems.
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I am expecting a call sometime this week after posting this. When she was younger I caught her collecting these lethal red seeds! The pods dry up and crack open, depositing their contents on the ground. Every year now I pick the seedpods before this happens. She knows every poisonous plant in the garden (most by name) but my youngest hobbit would be onto these "peanuts of pain" in a heartbeat.
I don't think it is ever going to rain again.
ESP.
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Your bug pictures are great. You must be the absolute best bug stalker I've ever seen. I picture you in a stop frame kind of stalk, moving slowly, then fast, then slow again. Bob
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I contribute my bug stalking skills to years of above ground hunting in Scotland, pheasants pigeon, rabbits, etc. I learned from an extremely young age how to "get up to nature", but the patience required to capture it on film is still a struggle for me.
You really did hit the stalking technique on the head, it is the only one that works with a camera...fast approach, then slow for the macro shot,(no breathing allowed)! Then fast again to excitedly download the shot to a computer!
I will post one of my old Scottish pheasant poaching stories soon!
ESP.
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Thank you for all the nice things you said! I don't know where to start, except to say your words of encouragement really do encourage me in these dog-days of summer. I always love reading your take on my posts, so you keep that heart beating at full force, you hear me? :-)
I will have a word with the ESP witches if you would like, to see if they have an opening in their "Brugmansia" coven. They have all been very "tense" of late with the stringing of the first poison necklace in the ESP.
The heat has claimed a few casualties in the patch, but I make enough rounds that I have a really close connection with what is going on, who needs a pint of the finest ale,(usually me) etc. I am concerned though as I have a trip to the home-land coming up.
Great to hear from you as always, I hope all is going well in Merida. Have a tequila shot on me when you come up for air.
ESP.
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One of my very best friends, Rachel Allenby is from over yonder. She runs a shooting club down the road from the house. She works her dogs over the 485 acres twice a day in the cooler weather and that is at 62 yrs. of age. She's a four time cancer survivor and is going through treatment for a different cancer right now. She is the single toughest woman I've ever known. I think you just made up my mind to post about her on my blog as I took pictures of her plants when we were at her cancer party a couple weeks ago. Thanks ESP, Bob
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I used to hunt in Scotland for food, whatever I caught would end up on the dinner table for dinner...mmm, pheasants!
I also learned how to tie my own fishing flies in Scotland, a lot of fun. I have taken a few vacations to the Yucatan and Belize since I have lived in Texas to fly-fish for bone fish, though they are extremely difficult to catch, very easily spooked. It was a really good way to learn to cast long distances in a head-wind though!
Rachel sounds like a real character, I look forward to hearing more about this lady from over yonder soon.
ESP.
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The El Nino gods may have heard your prayer - I keep reading we are expected to be wetter than normal (I hope they don't mean normal for this summer by that) this winter. Trowels crossed!
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She said thanks, and for complete novices the necklace turned out better than expected. I think we have another three to go! I have promised the ESP witches one after-all.
I hope El Niño will be all what they are saying it is going to be, I will be waiting with baited breath! So tired of this inferno heat and drought at this point, the plant casualties are increasing on a weekly basis right now it seems.
Trowels crossed indeed.
ESP.
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