This place screams for a name, but since its not ours there wont be an official one. We are torn of course between something complimentary and something more descriptive! There are bugs lots and lots of bugs, biting ones, flying ones, colorful ones, slithery ones, ones we don't want to meet barefooted in the damp grass. There are lizards, toads, frogs, snakes and worms.
There are wasps a plenty. This place is a coastal swamp essentially and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if we see a gator sunning on the drive one of these days. In fact I queried Chester of two men and a truck about the possibility of gators in residence in the pond, and he said" I dunno stick yer little toe in..." har har!, then he goes" On second thought there may be snappin turtles, dont go stickin nothin in thar." Yikes turtles more fierce than gators....greeeeeaaaat! alrighty then, flip flops back in the closet!
One thing, we are having trouble with? fire ants...the stuff to kill them all dead apparently kills fish, birds, old people, and small children. Just the kind of thing I want my dogs and horses around. Not to mention the chickens. So there might have to be some pyromania happenin he-ah. Another Chester suggestion was to douse the ants with gas and set them a' fire......I'm beginning to worry about Chester! grin. However gasoline tends not to harm wildlife after it all burns up...well, the wild life not soaked and set alight at least. I was willing to live and let live with these ants you know, but one mound of the little biting f***ers became two, became three ,became two hundred in the course of a week. And they don't play, they swarm and bite like bastards! I'm off to fill the gas can! grin Speaking of fire, we have smelled smoke twice, people burn stuff here, legally! Tim made a comment that was pretty profound "Strangely the smell of smoke doesn't fill me with dread here!" yup, maybe a few more times of smoke filled nostrils and my stomach will stop clenching at the thought of escapeing safelty with all the critters.
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