Specialty Gardening: Cottage Garden Seed Swap & Chat #46, 0 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
Piggy Box call for today!!!

We have:

Cheles_garden
LeBug
Ansonfan
Becky5711
Antsinmypants

I have flash backs everytime I see your name Ants. When I first came south I had never heard of fire ants. Nevr seen one either, but the lady who ran the trailer court wher e we live d said ther e wa pecan trees in this one section and we could go pick some. I said great. Now I had nevr seen a pecan in the shell at the time mind you.

Well me and son who was small at time got our bags and headed over to the area. We seen all thes e nuts on the ground and starte d pickign them all up. We was happily picking way when all of a sudden he starts lettign out screams. I look and he is covere d in ants all up his pants . I start strippign him down to get them all off of him and if any of you have evr dealt with fire ants before they bite and bite and hold on for dear life.

So whiel i tryign to get them all knocke d off him didnt notic e they had crawled up my shoe s and inside my pants and was bitign the snarff out of me.

I grabbe d my son and and ran back to the trailer and threw both of us in the shower. While tryign to stop him from havign a reaction . I in shower tryign to strip my pants off which is twic e as hard to get jeans off when they wet and darn nasty little bugger s was bitign the snarf out of me. My pants was full of ants and had them stuck to legs. Later that day we both was covere d in ant blisters.

We did go back to see abotu gettign our bags of nuts andi figure d they woudl be gone, but nope ther e they sat. I couldn't believe it. Walke d carefulyl checkign groudn for more ants . Got back to traielr lady and told her thanks for lettign us get the nuts.

I opene dth ebag up and offere d her half of them and sh looke d at me liek what in the world she givign me them for. I told her I was gonan go home and bake a pecan pie. She starte d laughing. I know I looke d puzzled and aske d was somethign wrong.

She told me nope just that I wasn't gonan be makign any pecan pie with them nuts, becaus e after gettoing all the " Ants In My Pants" we had gathere d hickory nuts not pecans. ; (

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