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Post by june on Sept 22, 2022 8:41:54 GMT -6
I trapped a skunk once...I didn't want to hurt it, so I crawled on my stomach (under a shower curtain) to release it. Successful, but it was super exciting! Fortunately there are no photos! LOL
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Post by woodeye on Sept 22, 2022 10:53:15 GMT -6
Good job, june! Oh man I'd love to watch an escapade such at that!
From a safe distance...
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Post by amyinowasso on Sept 23, 2022 10:03:33 GMT -6
A friend went birding in an area about 5 hours from Tulsa. They were looking for a bird called a rail which hangs out in grassy, marshy areas. To flush them up (I believe they were counting them) a few people walk through with a rope between them dragging the ground. She was so intent on watching ahead of her, she STEPPED ON a skunk. She threw away her boots and some clothes. 5 hours home she told her husband it had mostly dissipated. He said, no, it has not.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 23, 2022 21:15:16 GMT -6
june, you are one brave lady. Crawling on one’s stomach around here with all the fire ants and scorpions would be an act of tremendous courage. I don’t think I have that much. amyinowasso , I’m wondering if your friend’s car ever recovered from that trip. I had a little skunk in a trap today, but the trap was covered with a black trash bag. This little guy sprayed inside the bag while I was carrying the trap away from the garden area. I was dressed in full coveralls, rubber boots, gloves, and had a balaclava over my hair and face. With all that stripped off and left outside, I still smelled of skunk. It wasn’t nearly as bad as if I had actually gotten sprayed, so a very long shower and scrubbing with a mixture of dish detergent and baking soda seems to have gotten it all since my six year old gave me the sniff test after my shower, and he was willing to snuggle with me after that. My husband some time ago removed a trapped skunk from our garden, and it, too, sprayed while in the bagged cage. I think more of the spray escaped that time, though, so my husband got a larger dose than I did this morning. Apparently that close encounter with skunk spray can overwhelm a person’s nose. He knew that the skunk had sprayed, but he couldn’t tell that his hands and clothes smelled when he got inside. And when I say smelled, I mean the kind of smell that hits you hard enough to make your eyes water. He washed up and changed clothes and had no idea that he still smelled horrible. I had to wash his outside clothes and the indoor clothes he had put on in oxiclean and baking soda and rinse with vinegar, but thankfully that saved them. I think he ended up using a hydrogen peroxide and baking soda scrub on his hands and body. It was amazing to me that he could put skunky clothes up to his nose and inhale and just not realize that they smelled. I picked up the same clothes and there was no missing the smell. His nose must have just shut down temporarily or something because of the trauma. Back to my red noodle beans, the vines are continuing to wither and some of the pods are drying down. One vine, though, managed a flower today. I’m not expecting it to make anything, but it was a pretty sight.
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Post by woodeye on Sept 23, 2022 21:40:26 GMT -6
The skunk spray stories reminded me of a show that used to be on Discovery channel. The guy was a deluxe critter getter, sort of like a dog catcher, but he would catch any type of critter that was causing problems for people. He devised a plan to remove some skunks from a barn, but in the process of catching them he got sprayed.
I was way off on my memory of that show, so watch this video instead:
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 25, 2022 13:58:27 GMT -6
Woodeye, that was hilarious!
Back when I was growing up, my brother and I got sprayed by a skunk one morning while waiting on the bus. Most of the smell I had on me was just on my boots, from walking through the grass where the skunk had been running ahead of us as we crossed the cow pasture on our way to the bus stop. When we got to school, we split up and went our separate ways, so I don't know what my brother's day was like, but mine took a few hours to get used to. There was no denying the smell.
I remember picking a seat in Math class, back in the rear, where all the hooligans sat. I took my seat, sat there for a few minutes, then got up and declared, "WHAT IS THAT AWEFUL SMELL?!"
I glanced around at some of my classmates in an accusing manner, then gathered my things moved to a desk on the opposite side of the room.
Within seconds, the whole backside of the classroom moved to the front, near where I was now sitting. After a few seconds, I said, "Whew! Somebody in here stinks!" Then got up and moved my things again. Within seconds, everyone in the front moved to the back. I kept doing that all hour, until the whole class stank so badly that no one could figure out where the smell was coming from.
Thankfully, the second hour was time for our P.E. Class out on the football field, and afterward, I hit the showers and exchanged my work boots for a pair of wrestling shoes, so no one ever figured out where the stink was really coming from.
I believe that technique was later mastered by Donald Trump.
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Post by woodeye on Sept 25, 2022 15:12:53 GMT -6
mmaawwahahaha! That's knee-slappin' funny!
I think the Donald would even be in awe of a caper pulled like that...
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 27, 2022 21:08:28 GMT -6
I harvested a handful of seed pods from one side of my red noodle bean trellis today. I hadn’t really been intending to at first, but when I was doing my normal garden routine, I managed to break two different pods of them when walking too close to them under the trellis. I decided that if they were that fragile, I’d go ahead and take them inside. I’m letting most of them dry down just a little bit more. They’re not all full pods, but there are some seeds that I hope will be good.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 28, 2022 10:10:17 GMT -6
That looks like a fair amount of seeds. I'm already looking forward to next year's Red Noodle bean reports!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 5, 2022 21:01:37 GMT -6
I’ve pretty much harvested the rest of my small seed crop, but I haven’t shelled it out yet to see what it really amounts to. Not all the long pods are full. I’ve cut down the vines on the western side of the trellis since they had mostly died. The ones of the east side have dying tips, but I haven’t cut them yet. I was surprised this morning, though, to see that one had mustered up the strength for a bloom.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 10, 2022 16:03:08 GMT -6
Would you believe that I spotted to red noodle yardlong beans today, and another one was flowering? I wasn’t expecting them to have enough life left in them to do that. I don’t have enough plants left to even think of a mess of beans, but an isolated pod here and there will make either a nice garden snack or the possibility of more seed.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 10, 2022 18:57:20 GMT -6
Yes, more seed! Be like Beavis…
Yeah Yeah! More seed. Heheheeeee
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 11, 2022 19:23:05 GMT -6
I shelled out my Red Noodle Yardlong Beans today. Many of the pods weren’t filled out completely, but I think I counted 89 bean seeds. They’re pretty small. They’re in a one-cup jelly jar in this picture, just getting ready to have some time in the freezer.
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Post by woodeye on Oct 11, 2022 20:14:51 GMT -6
Very pretty beans! Considering the elements this year, that's a lot of bean seeds...
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Post by amyinowasso on Oct 12, 2022 10:38:45 GMT -6
My long beans have small black seeds. They were spaced about an half inch apart through out the pod before they dried. I think small seeds are normal.
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