El D, I would imagine you have creosote bushes there also. Well you guys must've gone through a lot of Ketchup then. Whoowhee, this critter has been here awhile, thank God for ketchup! As the Vulture in the far side cartoon, said to the other vultures.
Well Eddie, since you showed them the oranges, and beans, that didn't get trampled, and the loquats, and the garden, you might as well tell them that the Strawberries, have been out since April, and the Festival is this month. Yeah, it has been hot and windy here, and there was a big fire up north of Melbourne. I-95 was closed down for awhile. 600 or so acres. But when I was in the FD, it was what I hated most. Brush fires!! But it was job security......
Hey, where are you going with those road flares? Huh? oh, I uh, just uh, am going to put some in my truck, in case I break down....yeah, in case I break down.....
We actually had one of the kids in our explorer groups, who was coming into the station, when we were all out on a call, and loading up on road flares. Whenever we had a brush fire, somehow he was always there.......Hmmm 2+2......then one of his buddies got mad at him, and squealed on him, and led us to his stash, and the cops had him talking quite a bit about his exploits. Speaking of Strawberries, I am heading over to Plant City, tomorrow to get a few of flats of them, some for me, my Brother, My Girlfriend, her Sister, and some friends. Yeah, it is nice beach weather. It has warmed up in Thompson Falls, Mt also. Highs in the upper thirties, and lower forties. They had some sub Zero weather a couple of times. Some nasty type of weather, snow, then rain, then freezing temps, snow, rain, and so forth. Some people had ice balls in their drive ways, and walkways, and porches. A place called Choteau, about three or so hours from me, gets a lot of nasty weather. It had a storm come through two weeks ago, and had winds well over a hundred miles per hour !!!
Then the week after that they had low temps, of -26 !
But it is a beautiful area, but I am thankful I built my house in TF ! I am going to have to crank up my airconditioner pretty soon!
We got a little bit of rain today.
I have a Friend I used to work with, who has a nursery, and he raises loquats, and sells them to the Chinese. I was never impressed with them. Loquats, not the Chinese. That Ipe' looks pretty. I was in Sebring this weekend, and there was a place that had a bunch of them, and they were all blooming. Well you guys, unfortunately, we will be getting high temps, and humidity, and lots of skeeters, with the first good rain. We have some that are big enough to stand flat footed, and rape a turkey, and some that real tiny, and sound like a high pitched dentist drill, and feel like it when they bit you. Those are the little Asian tiger skeeters. You can hear them at night just as you are about to go to sleep, and then you can't sleep, because you are busy trying to find them! If you don't they WILL find you!
Wayne
