i have slugs

Number 400th?!? Woohoo!

Nice lookin plant, gramps!^-^

I just had to post the 400th before someone else did :-)!

Does the plant ever flower? The foliage looks amazing enough...

Yes, it flowers but the foliage is awesome. I'd tell you what it is but waitin for gusses. Congrats on 400.

Jim Foghorn Leghorn would suit you that could be your new username :) I have no idea what that plant is, but I'm not good at identifying plants. Leaves look a little like all the sumac we pulled out.
Chezka did you ever read Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven? It's an interesting concept. Entertaining read. Me, I'm a show me person. I'll believe it when I see it.

Cat I was weeding my backyard and I think the whole area under the playscape (20 X 40) is an ant nest....pull a weed, they come teeming out....blech...I didn't finish weeding. I'll spray first!

JJ I have an awesome peach cobbler recipe if you want it...lady from Tennesee gave it to me, it was her grandmother's. I put blueberries in it, but that's just me tweaking it to my taste.

Grammyjo I meant to say earlier, nice pictures!

What state are you in Lynnie? Hopefully at least they weren't fire ants!!! I used to live in TX and those things hurt!

And I would love a good peach cobbler recipe too! Always looking for good recipes.

Jim you have never eaten taco bell? You poor dear! Love those mexi melts!

peach cobbler
3/4 stick butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups sliced fresh peaches
Melt butter in 9x13 pan (I do it in oven while it's preheating) In bowl mix sugar, flour, baking soda, buttermilk, vanilla. Pour over butter, don't mix. Put peaches on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 mins. Just get a fork & eat it from the pan, it's that's good ;)

Thanks! Printing it off.

I'm in MA....no fire ants here....guess they don't like the snow.
We were in Maine last week, there were ladybugs all over the beach.

I've never been up in that area. They say it's gorgeous up there in the summer.

Cat that would be pretty funny if you got the whole thread! lol

Jim I admit I never thought we'd get to 400 posts....

LOL. Not so funny as I am at work and it would tie the printer up forEVER!! :-)

fall is the time to come.....
I like Maine's rocky coast....I like rocks. I like when the tide goes out & you can explore all the tidal pools, see the crabs & sea urchins & starfish.....

Someday! :-)

Lynnie Thanks for the recipe. Chezca gave me one also. Jim send me yours please. I'll have my own little bake off. Chezca might have to send me some peaches.
I put an order in for Ga peaches next time trucker friend goes there. Told him I'd make him peach cobbler.
Am I the only one around here that SLEEPS at night. If its past 10:00 and I'm not in bed you can bet I fell asleep on the couch.
Jim I don't know the names of my own plants, so no help from me. It looks huge bet it really something when it blooms!!
Why do you soak hay??

LOL. No I sleep at night too. I have to be at work at 7 am

Glad to hear someone does. They are all taking sleeping pills to sleep, I was thinking of asking Doc for something to stay awake. LOL

LOL. I'm so tired at the end of the day, I don't need anything to make me sleep.

Yep, I read then watched Five People You Meet in Heaven... Liked the book better, the movie was missing "something"... You should read "These Lovely Bones"... Very good read... Books are better read than watched, don't you agree? Because they lose something in the translation, like say, Memoirs of a Geisha and Da Vinci Code...

Grammy, I'd send you peaches if I could but them suckers are already fallin off the tree cos they're sooo big and ripe now (they'd get to you in the form of mush if I mailed them^-^)...

Grampa Foghorn was feeling depressed last night bcos he was the only one posting :-), that's when I saw we were at 399! Btw, where is he? He probably stayed up too late waiting for the other chickins to post ^-^

Taco Bell is ok to stave off late night hunger pangs... But I still like the mom & pop burrito places... Ooh but I JUST LOVE taco bell's mango-straberry frustista freeze ;-) yummmmmm!!!!!!!!!!

Cat I'm tired in the MIDDLE of the day! LOL good thing the coffee pot is always full!

Chezka I read all those books.....The Lovely Bones was the saddest thing, read it at the wrong time for me & wished I'd never picked it up (the elderberry bushes haunt me!). Right now reading Phillipa Gregory's series of books about Henry VIII & his women..very good series, some criticize her for not being completely true to history, but she makes that time come alive for me.

Oooh I love "historical-fiction" ^-^ too! Also addicted to Patricia Cornwell but not much anymore because her latest novels were a bust... She's running out of steam I guess...

What about the Odd Thomas series? They're sorta fun in a dark way :-)...

oh almost forgot:


SLUGS are annoying.

There.

Love Odd Thomas. I used to collect all the Stephen King books. Dean Koontz too

me too! I used to love Patricia Cornwell...have you read Kathy Reichs? Same type of thing but the main character is much more human....less woe-is-me. Check her out.
I haven't read the Odd Thomas series, is that Dean Koontz? I read his early stuff but then his way of digressing and rambling on about nothing in the middle of the action annoyed me, plus his frequent use of "sodium vapor lights." Call it a streetlight for heaven's sake!

One of my all time favorites is John Sandford (crime detective series) that man cannot write fast enough for me. And he's smart enough to get another character going when his grows out of the story.

lol Cat...cross-posted...Steven King wrote Odd Thomas? I have read a few of his books.....ever read the one about the strawberry pie & the gypsies? Can't remember the name of it.

Oh yes. Thinner. I don't think there are any I haven't read. Can't remember the names of lots of them, but, I went nutty for several years collecting them all.

Odd was written by Koontz

Don't forget to mention SLUGS, peeps! That way all our posts are sorta relevant (SORTA) ^-^!

Ah but my ultimate wish for this year is to get my very own KINDLE! I've been dropping "subtle" hints on my DH (like printing an 11x17 printout of kindle with my birthday date and leaving copies in his truck, on his pillow, taped to the coffee maker, taped on the wall in front of the toilet, etc). Constantly complaining that we have no more space for anymore books, books are so heavy, books are sooo dusty, etc. etc.... ^-^

Than you Chezka for keeping us on topic...this is why you're Grampa's favorite... ;)
Kindle saves trees. Woman at work has one, she loves it.

I do believe slugs would be a natural topic for the horror books!

I don't collect 'em, I read 'em & trade 'em or give 'em away...have either of you read Velocity by Koonz, that was one scary book...read it in a few hours. Couldn't put it down.

Good gracious, you gals been busy this morning. Don't even know where to start. I really enjoyed it all. First of all the plant is a fall blooming Marigold. Seed given to my wife from a lady in Alabama who has been saving it forever. I really like the folliage and the blooms are pretty and usually nothing else is blooming.

My wife and I have spent so much time at hopitals over the last 28 years that I just seldom eat fast foods. Never eaten at Taco Bell at all. We found out for a couple of dollars more we could eat a good mean. Usually we eat at Cracker Barrell. Mainly because of the veggies.

I guess one reason this post has gotten so long is because we all have a lot in common. All the talk about reading is just another tie. I have always been a reader. I red Gone With the Wind I was ten. Use to swipe my sisters Frank Yerby books and read them while she was at work. I've read some of all the authors you guys mentioned. I'm not real particular, I read most anything. Crave it like I use to cigrettees. Got hooked on westerns when I didn't have much time to read but the only guy I liked died so seldom read one. If you want to read a good series of books, read the Left Behind series. Follows the events as recorded in the book of Revelation but extremely well written. I like Gresham's books and Sandra Brown writes good books. Love the Spenser series of books. Well enough, I like them all and slugs tend to leave them alone. That was cool how I slipped that in. Me and my granddaughter have to keep this thread on track. Right Chezca.

I know about fire ants, Cats. I think the migration stops at the foot hills of the Ozarks.

There IS a movie called SLUGS... Released in 1988... Slugs invade small town and starts eating... PEOPLE!

AKKKKKKK! ^-^

AND it was actually based on a real book! Double akkkkk!!!

Right on, gramps ;-)

Chezca told me I reminded her of her Gramps. That is the highest praise a man can get. Gramps are always sweet and adorable and all the good stuff. If someone said you are just like my Dad, unless they explain they might consider you the next Jack the Ripper. But really I love you all and my wife is getting jealous of all the time I spend with you. Just joking. Only woman I know who tells her husband to tell the women to quit getting makeup on his suit coat when they hug him. It's her fault though, she buys me the best smelling after shave there is and I smell better than there husbands. On guy told me if I wasn't so old and ugly he'd be jealous.

ok, one more cuppa for my break then I HAVE to get my errands done! This is like my koffee klatch (is that what they were called).

my grampa was a stonemason, had a thick Italian accent & pinched our cheeks when we walked in. he kept a candy jar full of chocolate. grew his own grapes & made wine, grew his own veggies.

Chezka I just looked it up! Slugs, Muerte Viscosa! I love it! And in the movie a slug expert from England had to come save the day! Good thing we have Lainymay!

^-^!

My gramps was a stone sculptor. He built and made houses back in the day. His stone sculptures are mostly lifesized and only one is still in our family. A 7 foot Virgin Mary! It still stands guard in front of my bro's house where my gramps old house used to stand. He built our town church then my dad took over renovating it after my gramps passed on... You can still see his original work on the turret/tower... I took part in drawing the new renovation plans for my dad so it's sort of a family thing and I'm so lucky I was a part of it...:-)

As for SLUGS, the movie, I'll surely rent it over the weekend and relive the horror! (I remember watching it when I was younger) The movie was HORRIBLE btw... :-)

Chezca it's he thought that counts.
Lynnie I loved "Velocity". I like James Patterson and Mary Higgens Clark too. How come Chezka sees all the good movies?? I better upgrade my cable channels.
Before I go LOOK what I got before the Slugs

gramma, if i am a herbivore, my mouth would be watering! Your veggies look fantastic!

Hey I just discovere RedBox/BlueBox. They're dvd rental kiosks at most grocery stores and they rent dvds for a buck a night! that's where i get most of my movies now. Oh there's Lifetime tv of course (dh hates it, says it's too girly and would NEVER watch that channel no matter if loved the movie, when he sees the lifetime logo he stops watchin, grunts/spits and make manly noises (like belching and snorting) ^-^!

Lynnie and Chezca, thanks for sharing about your Granddads. I hope someday my grandchildren will be able to point back to some heritage I have left. I like that about the candy. All the years I was senior pastor, I kept a tin can with circus pictures on it filled with Dum Dums. When the congregation passed out all the kiddo's got a sucker, even the ones a prospective mom was carrying. Some of the momma's didn't like it so much but the kiddo's did. When they began to have questions about God and needed to ask someone other than mom or dad, guess what? They weren't afraid to sit down and talk to the man who had given them suckers all their life. One Sunday I had to be gone and got a friend to supply for me, that evening my cell rung and he wanted to know where the can of suckers were. Said the kids ganged up on him wanting to know, "Where de suckas."

Your veggies are beautiful, jjs. I like what you are showin anyway you fix. I like the cabbage, green beans, bell pepper and onion stir fried together. Oh yeah, and some yellow or zuke squash added in.

I had to actually do some work! Can you imagine!? :-)

Jim, I'm glad there are no fire ants here. I remember one time my daughter (12 or 13 then) was out playing and started screaming. I ran out like a crazy person and she was standing in a big bed of them. Had them crawling all up her legs! Just standing there frozen, and yelling! LOL. It wasn't funny at the time. I got the hose and doused her from head to toe, trying to get them all off. And we went around the whole yard with kerosene and matches, trying to burn the hills out. They are small but painful little critters!

Seems like I remember a movie about slugs too. Will have to do some searching!

I saw a lady a few years ago at the doctor's office, she had gotten in a fire ant bed several years before. He had her on some type of medication and everytime she ran out, the spots would get red and inflamed again. Folks up north how bad those things are. I have tiny scars all over my arms from pulling a stoppage out of my hay cutter. Went through a fire ant hill in the hay probably a foot tall. You can always tell a man who is from the south, because when he stops walking he always looks down at his feet to make sure he isn't in a fire ant bed, even when he is inside.

You guys and your movies got me wanting to watch one, V for Vendetta. Earlier in the day I watched about ten minutes of an old Johnny Weismuller, Tarzan movie. Got frustrated when I still couldn't do his ape man yell and turned it off. Always wanted to get that thing down pat. Wife looks at me funny when I practice in the house. Maybe I'll go out to the garden and see if it'll scare the slugs away. Can't do that cause it's drizzeling rain and the temp is in the 70's and I'm freezing and the little woman won't tell me where she's got my long drawers stored. Gee whiz life is frustrating. Thank goodness for the Slug Thread and Cat to keep me company.

The Monster is a little more yellow even in the rain. Second one on the vine is starting to turn. Had to promise it to the man that is keepin my wife in eatin peachs. Thought I was about through with him but now he's bringing muscadines as well. Says he's got 26 varieties and the last one won't come off until September. Uggh!! Don't like none of that junk food. Wonder if he'll still show up when the cantalopes play out. Thinking about dosing one of those lopes with the juice of the jalepeno from hell. Stop that Jim, people already think your nuts. Maybe that can be my plea if he has me arrested. Just thinking out loud girls. Still the sweet, docile, hen-pecked husband I've always been.

It's 70's and you're freezing?!? How?!? :-) You should watch the Bourne series. It's about this special ops guy that the gov is trying to off bcos he's too good at his job ^-^..

My DH sees a couple of ants in the house and he goes nuts with the bug spray. I keep telling him he not just gonna off the ants but us too one of these days ^-^! That stuff is awful! But he keeps buying those bug-fightin, anti-bug, bug-zappin, bug-repellant, etc chemicals and just goes around the house sprayin willynilly... He says he's just tryin to get them spideys before they get to us :-)...

Hey gramps, how come the missus isn't postin here at Dave's herself? Are you hoggin the 'puter? ^-^