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~The Berry Bush Saga~

~The Berry Bush Saga~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** The idea of propagating blackberry bushes along the pasture’s fence line…..was a good idea….. …..it was….. …..I would’ve thought it would be easier….. …..the planting…..the regular watering…..that kind of stuff….. …..but the challenges for the poor plants surviving here…..well…..that’s another story….. I wanted the anti-social properties of thorny/berry-bearing bushes for our pasture’s perimeters….. I figured I’d begin with three different/non-hybridized/old-fashioned blackberry…

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Why?~~~Why Do Horses Rub?

Why?~~~Why Do Horses Rub?

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I don’t get it….. This is the coolest time of the year here in balmy/sub-tropical Florida….. This is the time of year when the bugs (and snakes and stuff) are at their lowest-activity-level….. “One” would think that the “irritants” to a horse would be at a minimum….. “One” would think that…..”One” would…..Right?….. …..But Noooooo!….. Addy…..for no reason at all….has decided to rub a 4″ x 4″ oozing/raw patch on the side of her…

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Bad Plants…….and Worse Plants…….

Bad Plants…….and Worse Plants…….

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Sub-tropical Florida is a moist/perfectly-heated Petri dish….. Lots of things grow down here and they grow opulently & lavishly….. …..year ’round….. …..all the time….. I just wanted to devote a post to photos of what voluntarily grows in our back yard….. It’s a little scary what Florida can produce….. …..and these things can show up overnight!….. Some of these plants are taller than we are…..plus they’re poisonous….. But wait………….there’s more….. Eeeeeeewwwwwww!….. See…..sunny Florida….. …..it’s not just pristine beaches….. …..with beautiful…

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Caterpillars and Nettles…..

Caterpillars and Nettles…..

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I don’t want to talk about them….. See…………. I haven’t even mentioned them…..at all…..not even once…..yet………… …..they’re out there again……. …..any bare and/or exposed skin has been ravaged and zapped by those @#$%$#^$ plants….. …..they are EVERYWHERE………….AGAIN…..!….. An unsuspecting handyman was here the other day…..in shorts….. …..we had warned him about the nettles ahead of time….. …..we even suggested pants and boots….. …..he arrived in Docker shorts and boat shoes with no socks….. …..he didn’t know what “they” were…..!…..(he knows…

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~~~It’s That Time Again~~~

~~~It’s That Time Again~~~

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NETTLES!!! Those @#$%@# ‘ed weeds are back…….(AGAIN)……. …..sigh……. …..I don’t want to deal with them……. …..I don’t want to write about them…….again……. So…..I won’t……. …..I don’t want to have to spray them……. …..I don’t want to torch them with one of those hand-held, incendiary-thingies that Jimmy Billy suggested last year…….(although that does sound intriguing)… …..maybe if I ignore them thoroughly…..maybe…..just maybe…..they will go away……. I hate these @#$%@#’ed fireweed-nettles……. (Should you be interested…..here are past posts on these booger-plants…….  …

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Tools of the Trade

Tools of the Trade

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  Swamp Hag versus the environs…………… I suited up again and continued my assault on the nettles…………… I am happy to say (am I?) that after a number of years “the powers that be” have given the @%#$&*@#$ nettles its own call-name. “Fireweed” finally seems to be the commonly accepted name… Well, that rolls off the tongue easier I guess… The insidious weeds are still highly invasive… So I spray…………… And I slosh…………… And I waddle…………… But if I am…

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The Nettles & The Hag

The Nettles & The Hag

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  Finally———Today was the Day… Today was the day, I pulled the new back-pack sprayer thing out of its box———read the directions (sort of)———-and Paolo measured out the herbicide———and away I went. First of all———four gallons of fluid strapped to your back is heavy… Secondly———-it’s super top-heavy and sloshy… But two artificial hips and two artificial knees offer a better stability than I think I ever had before…………….(and, don’t tell my orthopedic surgeons). I only got the sprayer hung up…

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Nettles———They’re Back!

Nettles———They’re Back!

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  My most-favorite plants ever are poking their sweet, little, pastel, tender, tortuous, sprouty-heads above the ground again. It’s that time of year……………….yippee! Woot!  Woot!   …………………………………………. I hate these hateful plants.   They are indelible and permeating and sprawling and hearty and absolutely everywhere. And they are just plain mean. They trick you with their fresh minty-like look, and then they bite/burn/singe/welt/& sting you…………..and the symptoms don’t go away quickly………….like the reference articles say they should. They last for…

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The Year Of The Goat

The Year Of The Goat

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  Surprise~~~~~the last few days have been spent on fixing fencing. Surprise!  !@*%#$*@#@! I have no other activities it seems……………..in my spare time, I fix fencing. Ugh.  This is getting old.  I can’t put on or take off rings because my fingers are contused and swollen from hammer smashes. Old, hard, pine posts combined with my all-time favorite hammering projectile………………..the fence staple.  They are both a nasty combination.   Those things have got to have been created by the same…

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Here’s The Run-Down

Here’s The Run-Down

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The dishwasher is now on the fritz.  So I’m standing at the sink doing dishes.  I’m looking out the window.  And here comes Ben, our new Irish Wolfhound puppy, trotting onto the back porch, proudly dangling a dead rat by it’s tail from his mouth. We live in a swamp……….on a farm……….there’s dribbled food for various farm animals everywhere.  So, of course we have rats.  In fact we have a variety of rats.  Our rats are multi-generational……….I catch them and…

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