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Doffy

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More than 10 seconds in the grass like that, you'd be eaten up alive by chiggers down here in AR.

I have often thought of moving back up north just so that I could lay in the grass, on a picnic blanket, and read. People here don't do that.

i had to google

mites? must be fierce ones

aussie lawns have some bugs, we still lay on them
 

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Was in poros for the weekend

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Hi ...


from about 1960-1990, people would spend their vacations building houses like that down the peninsula to retire in

come retirement age [67] no one could walk up the stairs, so they sold up and moved into small cottages
 

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My lawn is a sterile oasis of calm and peace that Buddhist monks come to lie on, but it was not always like that and you'd have enjoyed the fire ants.

A friend of mine from Virginia relates a story of how she and her amour were frolicking in the woods and the chiggers ate them up.

When i was a boy of about 7, we lived in a house that had originally been built on sheep farming land and those mites attacked me. It's odd to see your own skin squirming, but they burrow under it and it's more than just itchy. The treatment at the time was to be painted with a chemical all over your skin except for your face, hands and feet, and i recall standing stark naked as my mother painted me with this chemical.

It burned. This was repeated nightly for 3 days and then all my pyjamas and bedsheets were thrown out.

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My lawn is a sterile oasis of calm and peace that Buddhist monks come to lie on, but it was not always like that and you'd have enjoyed the fire ants.

A friend of mine from Virginia relates a story of how she and her amour were frolicking in the woods and the chiggers ate them up.

When i was a boy of about 7, we lived in a house that had originally been built on sheep farming land and those mites attacked me. It's odd to see your own skin squirming, but they burrow under it and it's more than just itchy. The treatment at the time was to be painted with a chemical all over your skin except for your face, hands and feet, and i recall standing stark naked as my mother painted me with this chemical.

It burned. This was repeated nightly for 3 days and then all my pyjamas and bedsheets were thrown out.

T
Yeah, chiggers itch bad. For a long time. Almost like you want to dig them out, that's how bad. But you can't see them

And yes, there are fire ants (came over from Texas, a real scourge) and grasshoppers and other kinds of ants and even spiders.

I could have a sterile oasis, like people do with Chemlawn.

I just don't want to trade having chiggers with having breast cancer or something, so I'm not gonna use a lot of poisons around MY property. EVER.
 
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i think that bird just said "hi" to me. :blink:
Seagulls. Funny birds. They fly at the same speed as the boat around it for a while and next to your face. Lots of time they look stationary and wait for you to take a picture.

Probably waiting to snatch your food when you're not looking :blink:
 

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Chiggers hmmm, they'll seem like a walk in the park compared to the fire ants down in FL. I remember when I lived in Stuart, FL and had a ride on mower these things even made their way up the mower in motion and nailed my azz. Fierce things I tell ya, had the scars for weeks.
 

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I have 3 days off from tomorrow which I intend spending milling caps and then have a flight to Melbourne, Australia to meet up with the one and only Doff and his tight hole. I promise this time you'll get to see more of him instead of just his feet.
Looking forward Doff to me and you blowing some clouds brother ;)

Just try to keep up with the old man will ya :D
 

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Imma gonna go lay down...

all these quarters are getting mighty heavy !
Lemme get this straight, first you drop the quarters and then you pick em up? Multitasking now recycling currency are we?
 

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I have 3 days off from tomorrow which I intend spending milling caps and then have a flight to Melbourne, Australia to meet up with the one and only Doff and his tight hole. I promise this time you'll get to see more of him instead of just his feet.
Looking forward Doff to me and you blowing some clouds brother ;)

Just try to keep up with the old man will ya :D


it's not so much tight as it is crookedy.

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I have 3 days off from tomorrow which I intend spending milling caps and then have a flight to Melbourne, Australia to meet up with the one and only Doff and his tight hole. I promise this time you'll get to see more of him instead of just his feet.
Looking forward Doff to me and you blowing some clouds brother ;)

Just try to keep up with the old man will ya :D

looking forward to it, cap'n
 

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I have 3 days off from tomorrow which I intend spending milling caps and then have a flight to Melbourne, Australia to meet up with the one and only Doff and his tight hole. I promise this time you'll get to see more of him ...Just try to keep up with the old man will ya :D

:?:

I was much more innocent and polite before I joined this thread
 

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