sixgoofykids
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It's funny, with my OCD tendencies from Lyme, I always check my bed for spiders .... hubby has always thought I was nuts. It didn't help that I actually found a spider in there! I was just about to give up the habit, till I saw the spider! Now he doesn't say anything and just humors me with the annoying habit. I'm sure he was glad he didn't have to sleep with that spider.
BTW, this habit started in Texas .... I was looking for scorpions.
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Tincup
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Well, nice to see I am not alone!
I also shut all my windows in the vehicles as snakes tend to want to slither in and squirrels will get in and tear apart all sorts of stuff if I don't.
I had a METAL trash can here to protect my birdseed.. with a very tight lid.. and also 2 bungie cords holding the lid down in case the wind blew or the heavy can were to be knocked over somehow.
When I got here the squirrels had eaten through both bungie cords... but were not able to pop the top after all that work they did.
sometimesdilly
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dearest tin-tin:
let's review,ok?
you have something under your house that goes bump in the night, scorpions in your underwear,snakes slithering here and thither,and squirrels chewing up great big solid chunks of nylon.
um. and you go to Florida to RELAX??!!!
dilly
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robi
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I lived in Florida, never saw a scorpion ......... I still think its the gallon containers of ice cream.
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Yes scorpions, spiders, ants, and snakes like to invade our personal spaces,
so you have you check your bed daily, shake your cloths before you put them on, check your shoes, etc.
nothing is safe if it sits undisturbed for too long.
Believe Me -
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Geneal
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And here I was thinking I only had to worry about the ticks!
I hate snakes though. Last year I had to kill two copperheads and
Had my neighbor kill one. AAARRRGGGHHHHH!
Ms. Dilly,
What if you just swallow the worm from let's say a tequila bottle?
Would that count as a kiss?
With all of these insects/wildlife it is a wonder any of our
Earlier ancestors survived.
Last night my husband saw a coyote running close to our house.
That's it. Kids cannot go outside without me!!
Those stinkers sneak out the door all the time.
Good news is that with 7 dogs, chances of Wiley Coyote
Coming to my house is slim and none.
My husband really needs to put the fence back up......soon!
I really appreciate all the laughs and fun.
It is so good for the soul.
Hugs,
Geneal
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Truthfinder
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Geneal, you think a coyote will attack your children?
Unless you dress your kids up to look like sheep or like poodles or something, your kids are more likely to get hit by an asteroid than get attacked by a coyote.
Now your dogs are another matter.... both wolves and coyotes will attack dogs....
Hey, there's always something out there to alarm us, but we've got to keep it in perspective. Keep whacking those copperheads, though.... yikes.
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Tincup
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Dilly said... "you have something under your house that goes bump in the night, scorpions in your underwear,snakes slithering here and thither,and squirrels chewing up great big solid chunks of nylon. um. and you go to Florida to RELAX??!!!"
Yep.. I guess I might need to re-think that.. but actually nature has never been as evil as I've seen man to be. At least I know with nature the attacks aren't personal.
I would invite you down... but with all these weird things going on...
I don't think I could handle having a WORM KISSER in the house too!
Geneal
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Actually, I am more afraid of my dogs getting
Into a fight with said coyotes and my
Children being around that.
Plus it drives me crazy that they sneak out.
The snakes scare me, have found tons of ticks lately,
And we are getting ready to start construction on a house.
They need to listen and be supervised.
They are a little afraid of a coyote. My husband told them
They had super long teeth and claws!
At least now they aren't sneaking out.
I guess I am a manipulative mother trying to out manipulate my two children.
Hugs,
Geneal
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just don
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I claim foul on this one!!!
You HAVE to be a Floridian to get that right!!
Us poor hick folk,,,would never get THAT right cause we dont live in Scorpian country.
Closest we can come to that is needing to shake the 'toads' out of our shoes that set outside, NOT the same.
Or keep bumblebees out of our drink cans. Which is solved by NOT drinking anything BUT water!!Shu- fly and drink away!!
Who in their RIGHT mind would brave all those critters PLUS a stray alligator just to live in the land of sunshine???
You better come visit ME next time TC,,,see I did find a reason for all this finger peckin!!Bring your ice skates tho!!( ) **self portrait** of --just don--
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sometimesdilly
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trust me, Just Don, i am NOT a floridian.
actually, florida is one of only 3 states i haven't been to before at all.
now that i hear what slithers and shrieks and gnaws and bumps and lurks down there, i have NO intention of going anywhere near the place, even IF the good TC ever DID invite me, and even if she threw in promises of ice-cream parties everynight to boot.
And to Geneal- EAT the worm? GROSS!! And out of a TEQUILA bottle??
Ask AliG sometime what the very THOUGHT of tequila does to me.
the dill
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they hide almost anywhere, in your cabinets like in a bowl or in the linen closet, anywhere it wants.
We normally contact the pest control and have our house treated for them every 6 months or so, its just a why of life down here.
And we aren't talking about the big ones like in the dessert, these here can get to be about the size of a large paper clip, but no bigger.
You should be on the look out for spiders: brown recluses, brown house spiders, and black widows.
Normally if you leave them alone - they don't mess with you. They like dark spaces.
So, check the beds before getting in, shake your shoes before sliding them on etc.
We also have pine roaches - they fly.
You Know normal stuff for Florida
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stymielymie
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i got thousands of camelions never have seen a scorpion. seen alligators, snakes, armadillos,parrots, dragonflies.
must be a west coast florida thing. my first wife was a vampire, when it came to money!!!! lol docdave
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sixgoofykids
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My parents are both from the West Coast of Florida ... I practically grew up there and lived there for a couple years.
I never saw a scorpion .... saw lots of chameleons, like doc says. Also lots of roaches.
Alligators are near fresh water and golf courses, so just stay away from fresh water, go to the beach. They come get them off the golf courses when they get too big.
I see more spiders up north and when I live in CA than I did there.
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Tincup
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Roaches? Nah.
Southerners have fancied up the name for them and they polietly refer to them as "Palmetto bugs".
And those suckers.. which look exactly like roaches... get big as a soup bowl!
One of our favorite past times is having Roach Races.
You ALL make me laugh!
Oh.. and my mind is rarely EVER in the gutter (not automatically anyhow).. and I usually miss those types of referrences.. but...
kb... I HAVE to laugh at your signature every time I see it. I believe it is Jeff Foxworthy who refers to people's "privates" as their "happy place."
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