Life in the Boonies
Aug 2, 2020 11:04:04 #
I like to get my cats in at night because I live in coyote and mountain lion heaven.
Flipped the front porch light on a week ago or so, popped open the screen and yelled for one of my cats and noticed I'd just stepped over a scorpion catching bugs in the porch light.
I yelled, the cat didn't come, the way they do and I went back inside.
Next thing I know one of my other cats is playing with something just inside the front door.
As it happened, the scorpion I stepped over and thereafter ignored slipped under a very small crack under the screen and got caught by my cat.
Moral of the story: Pay attention to what your cats are doing.
Side-note: I never wear shoes. We have thousands of the things in my yard. I trip people out once in a while by taking them on a blacklight, barefoot tour of my yard.
Flipped the front porch light on a week ago or so, popped open the screen and yelled for one of my cats and noticed I'd just stepped over a scorpion catching bugs in the porch light.
I yelled, the cat didn't come, the way they do and I went back inside.
Next thing I know one of my other cats is playing with something just inside the front door.
As it happened, the scorpion I stepped over and thereafter ignored slipped under a very small crack under the screen and got caught by my cat.
Moral of the story: Pay attention to what your cats are doing.
Side-note: I never wear shoes. We have thousands of the things in my yard. I trip people out once in a while by taking them on a blacklight, barefoot tour of my yard.
Aug 2, 2020 11:36:11 #
BigMike wrote:
I like to get my cats in at night because I live i... (show quote)
I have been through Yerington and remember the Y on the side of the hill. Stopped there for some gas once. Out in the middle of nowhere - I like it.
Aug 2, 2020 12:29:15 #
BigMike wrote:
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We have them here too. Those suckers hurt bad when they get you!
Aug 2, 2020 12:49:11 #
Rose42 wrote:
I have been through Yerington and remember the Y on the side of the hill. Stopped there for some gas once. Out in the middle of nowhere - I like it.
I never want to go anywhere else...and I've been to some disparate places.
Aug 2, 2020 12:54:17 #
archie bunker wrote:
We have them here too. Those suckers hurt bad when they get you!
They'd have to get me between the toes or something because my feet are like shoe leather. On my 2 1/2 acres the only thing they can't handle is the gravel in the driveway. Pea gravel is fine but this stuff is 1/2 inch. Ow! Like Aa lava on the Big Island.!
Aug 2, 2020 16:05:52 #
BigMike wrote:
They'd have to get me between the toes or something because my feet are like shoe leather. On my 2 1/2 acres the only thing they can't handle is the gravel in the driveway. Pea gravel is fine but this stuff is 1/2 inch. Ow! Like Aa lava on the Big Island.!
You're one tough dude! I can step on a fresh cooked pea on the kitchen floor barefoot, and limp for a week!
Aug 2, 2020 16:49:14 #
archie bunker wrote:
You're one tough dude! I can step on a fresh cooked pea on the kitchen floor barefoot, and limp for a week!
My neighbor thinks I'm a nut. I'll wade through the tumbleweeds and rocks barefoot once in a while to chat over the barbed-wire (he has a bunch of cattle
)...unless it's too hot. Then I put on shoes. Snow is fine. Aug 3, 2020 09:11:48 #
billy a
Loc: South Florida
BigMike wrote:
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Hey! That's my EX...
Aug 3, 2020 12:50:41 #
BigMike wrote:
They'd have to get me between the toes or something because my feet are like shoe leather. On my 2 1/2 acres the only thing they can't handle is the gravel in the driveway. Pea gravel is fine but this stuff is 1/2 inch. Ow! Like Aa lava on the Big Island.!
Had to laugh. When going to high school, sometimes visited a neighbor down the road to bum a smoke. He would let me roll one from his Bull Durham sack and then light up. We used kitchen matches AKA 'barn burners". Difference was he struck his match on his bare heel!!!. Yep. Bare.
Aug 3, 2020 17:45:19 #
BigMike wrote:
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I used to go on barefoot well naked trips to her hot tub with my cousin. That was when we weren't cannonballing out of the window. Fire ants on the ground so you had to walk fast.
Aug 4, 2020 09:53:01 #
Aug 4, 2020 23:30:27 #
Remember when I was a kid in TX, had to always check our shoes before putting them on, scorpions loved to hide inside shoes! Got stung a couple of times...hurts like hell!
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