i have slugs

Jim sell tickets to your giant slug eating cantaloupe ;)

hehehe just pushed us to 200

201 Yeah, Lynn. You are quick on your feet. Us ole dumb rednecks never would of thought of that. Tomorrow is Sunday so I'll wait til Monday and put up a toll booth. Maybe one of those turnstile thing ur ma bobies. Have a great week end, all. Jim

Well all you southerners on the thread, I just finished eating a good ole southern supper (for my notheren friends, that is the meal we eat at night, dinner we eat at noon). Had fresh pink eyed purplehull peas boiled with a ham hock with a hand full of that good ole slimey okra thrown in for added flavor, red ripe juicy tomatoes (seeds and all), with about a foot tub of good fried cow horn okra. Had a rotissery chicken we bought at Sam's but decided not foul up our taste buds with fowl. If company comes tomorrow guess what they get.

I didn't think they could do it but the mintys are at 199 and posting.

Talk to yall later, Jim

“GrammyJo, me likey your humor :-) You're already fitting in poyfectly!”

Thanks Chezca! I fit in POYfectly??? All I can say in response is
‘neyack neyack’……..’woo woo woo woo woo!!!’ (I’ll splain that to ya if you don’t get it ;o)

Jim, I’m really concerned that a ‘man of the cloth’ would be talking about his wife’s ‘pot plants’. Tisk tisk…. are we talking about plants IN pots or the kind you grow in large fields hoping the Feds never discover the location of……..HUM????? LOL

lainymay, it IS a bunch of silliness, isn’t it!? I got ‘slugged’ and now I can’t get away. LOL

How much you all want to bet that lainymay has………… mint in her garden??? ……..OH the HORROR!!! I KNOW it’s upsetting but it just had to be said, no way of getting around it!
lainymay, do the hotels in the UK have ice-cubes for their guests? I couldn’t LIVE without ice-cubes!

Jim, that meal sounded pretty good until you got to the ‘slimy okra’………..YUCK!!! Now my husband was born in a cabin in the middle of a cotton field down in Tenn. 63 years ago (could even see chickens under the cabin....er..shack through the floor boards) and he’s ‘there’ for all that down home cookin, me too for most part. But we Northern girls have to draw the line SOME where! And OKRA is where I draw my line. BLLECK!!

If you haven't tried it don't knock it. If it's cooked right it's really not slimy. Just that way when you use to big of a pod and over cook. The flavor is great. Did I mention I also had fried okra. No slime a tall. By the way, the mints have out posted us. And on the pot plants we red necks seldom add the ed. Potted Plants. The last church I was senior pastor at was in Caldwell and it is the pot capital of Louisiana. The parish is primarily hills and pine trees. They find an area that has been clear cut and get out in the middle of it and clean a place and plant it down in Mary Jane. Don't think the sheriffs department tries to hard to catch them to busy trying to shut the meth labs down. Got to go to bed. Preaching tomorrow at the first church I ever preached at. Going to use the same scripture. Still remember it after 28 years.

Jim I'm not much buying the dumb ol' redneck thing, but that's ok, we'll go along with ya if you want ;) I have been to Texas and OK, had okra it wasn't too bad. It wasn't cooked by your wife and now I'm unreasonably partial to her cooking despite the fact that I've never had it and despite the ripe tomato pie incident lol They actually sell okra frozen in my grocery store...never bought that.
We brought my niece out to dinner for her birthday & I had cajun beef and it was really good. And I'm pretty hard to please. I don't like packaged food, canned fruits or veggies, processed food...life is too short to eat crappy food, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm making all my posts separate, we're behind the mint thread!

3 stooges, right Grammyjo? my husband loves them...got the kids watching them....my kids are very TV deprived, they're lucky to see an hour a day, and there they were one day, giggling away at the 3 stooges....it was pretty funny.

Grammyjo,
we stayed in a 3 star hotel (can't think of the name...it was in Piccadilly Circus) and there were no ice machines, no private bathrooms, and no a/c. The hotel was nice, but if you want those amenities I guess you have to go to a 4 or 5 star. The dollar was already weak against the English pound then (10 years ago) and my American dollars did not buy me ice lol

grammyjo are you spying on me? yes i do have mint in the garden, apple mint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, eau de cologne mint ( yeh they really do exist ) and of course we have ice cube machines in our hotels. have to say we are very posh you know.lol
you wont believe this but in the winter our slugs have little knitted suits on to keep themselves warm as they go cruising for food.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND WHATS WRONG WITH MINT IN THE GARDEN????????????????
very nice taste putting a sprig in your peas, no i didn't say i pee mint!!!!!!!!!
OH NO im getting as crazy as you lot here. are you all up and about yet? it's 11am here in england.

linney are you sure it wasn't a bed and breakfast you were staying in??????????lol.
times have a changed since you were last here. everything hotel wise is upmarket aimed at poeple outside of london, very posh and also very expensive.

well shoot now I'm going to have to find the name.....(and you bumped up our count)
:)
it wasn't a b&b...we did stay in some during that trip, but not in London....I'll find it.

I only read from my last post and I have to add alot of us have to much time on our hands (including me).

Lainymay, I believe it was the Regent Palace...I would have to dig out pictures to be sure...a friend did all the planning. I just googled it & I laughed to read that the freeholding company dropped it in 2006 because it's in such disrepair. It's a 2 star, and the pound is so strong against the dollar I STILL couldn't afford my own bathroom lol
I want to take the kids across the pond when they're older, I better start saving now!
I don't know what they used to control their slugs there, but it worked because i didn't see any. Maybe they stayed at the Sanderson? I bet they have ice there.

iluvcatz I'm starting to wish they put the latest posts on top....

Lynnie, put your pointer on the slide and right click and hold and drag to bottom. What I do? If an old ignorant redneck like me figured it out a young sweet thing like you can do it. I am like you about canned, frozen and processed food. Don't care for it. Jo used to freeze a lot of peas and beans and the like and still does on a smaller scale. If it's not fresh I'd rather have dried beans or peas. My wife is a great cook although she would never admit it. All I know is when we have a pot luck at the church, her pots all ways go home empty. Didn't get to make England about 10 years ago. Visited are daughter in Germany and we spent a month running all over Europe, Made Switzerland, Bavarian Alps, Luxemburg. Holland, Belgium and France. Didn't realize how small Europe was or how old. Our country is still a baby compared to there. My daughter lived i a house built in 1100. Went to a restaraunt one night famous for its Snitzel (spelling) ordered a coke with it. Got a hot coke in the bottle, a glass and 2 ice cubes. Best meal we ate out while there was at a McDonalds in Verdon, France. The big shock to my wife was while we were zipping down the road to see men and women off on the side following the call of nature. Jo is just a sweet innocent country girl and she stayed red faced for a month. Especially, when she couldn't hold it anymore and we had to stop. If she knew I was posting this I would definitly be in the dog house.

I'm cracking up at that picture! I bet you were laughing at her too when you pulled over weren't you Jim? lol They say it's a man's world. I didn't notice behavior like that in the UK.
I DO scroll down the side, I'm wildly impatient it's my worst fault (hubby's at the hardware store, can't disagree with me) I was thread hopping & I got impatient.
Also, that's exactly how many ice cubes I got in my drinks...2. We mostly ate Indian food, there were a lot of Indian restaurants & they were very good. I decided after that trip that ice is an American thing. We went to Ireland at that time, too. I don't think we drank anything but guinness there.
I didn't see any slugs in Ireland, but I confess when you drink guinness you forget to look for slugs.
Your daughter's house must have been VERY cool.

iluvcatz I have to tell you I cleaned all the bathrooms and baked 2 dozen muffins in between posting....I don't want you guys to think I sit around all day! My computer is right on the kitchen counter (so I can keep an eye on the kids when they're on it) and every time I pass it I can check my emails & whatnot, becuase it's always on. Very handy for looking up recipes too.

hi all again, how are your slugs doing.still feasting away? we have just had a right pur down over here in England so it wont be long before the slimy slugs start showing their heads. i may be a bit thick but exactly what is the perpose of a slug? what does it do for the good of the garden ? AND how do they manage to get onto my hanging baskets> they must bungy jump or something.
Perhaps we should all get together and start a slug circus, what do you say, as they seem to be very clever slimy critters.
i think i am going mad.i was sane until i came on to this thread.
someone call a physciatrist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my brother saw a slug that was as long as the panneling on his g/f house. EWWWWWWW

Sanity is a matter of opinion. We of the slug thread definitely think we are the ones who are sane and the rest of the world is nuts. And then again we are just so much fun. Everyone on this thread is an extremely intelligent person, except for me and I'm a red-neck and I don't count. We have our own way of reasoning and you have to be one to understand. I find your idea of a slug circus extremely exciting, it is the kind of thing I can get into.

Lynnie, are any of those muffins blueberry. I drool over blueberry muffins. Did I ever tell you my blueberry and red bug story.

Lynnie can you imagine how funny it would be if they posted the last post first. Imagine how it would read. Oh goodness, I'm to old to think how weird it would sound.

O.K. you sluggies! Yes I'm double dipping from the mint thread = shocking = gasp!!!! But if you look WAY up at the top I've been here before LOL! I can't help it if we were gathered at a garden party and there were two groups I would be going back and forth. I admit being from Washington state where slug festivals are held and slug paraphernalia fills every tourist store I have seen my share of slugs so I haven't spent to much time here, but I thought you may enjoy the following:

Info from a WA state slug festival:
"Here's some slug trivia for you. Slugs have been around since the dinosaurs. The wet Olympic coast is home to 23 species of slugs. They have two tentacles, one for seeing and the other for feeling. Because their tentacles movie independently, they can see in two directions at once. Slugs have 27,000 teeth and eat their weight everyday. It would take more than 9 hours for a slug to finish a 100-yard dash.
That's why the organizers of the annual Slug Festival held every July no longer hold slug races. "It just wasn't much fun," Susan Hulbert of the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park says."

http://www.byteland.org/slugfest/index.html

http://www.getridofslugs.com/

Hope you enjoy :)

Hi everyone. Thought I'd put in my two cents and make it 222. I don't have any slugs but I got squash borers big enough to shishkabob.

ah ha 223

Well I finally got my mother's arbor painted...guess what was on it?? A baby slug. My mother painted it's belly before we saw it, then she flicked it off into the "garden" (overgrown area infested with bugs that attacked me as soon as I got in there). There was also a big striped one in her driveway blech! I think I stepped on that one before I saw it, it's head was a little smooshed. This is why I never go barefoot.
And the idea of pulling out her rhodies went over like a lead balloon...I offered to replace them, she doesn't want me buying them for her...I told her we could do it in the Spring & she can get a different color if she wants...she seems pretty attached to these..she planted them "with my father" (she stood over him while he planted them) when they bought the haunted house...let's see 36 years ago?
I know, I'm very fresh, aren't I? Jim you must have a sermon against that? I probably need a refresher!

If we do start a slug circus I can get lots of slugs from her house, I don't think she's attached to them. How do we train something that can't hear us? Maybe use slug braille, icanfindroom they could feel the directions with that creepy feeler tentacle, right? Where do they keep all those teeth? Eeew!

Jim you're right, a dozen blueberry & a dozen chocolate chip.....I need my chocolate. You haven't told us your blueberry & red bug story, now you have to...I'm thinking I'm going to be glad I already ate my muffins....

welcome jjsgramma do squash borers shishkebob as good as slugs?

Lynnie the scripture is, "How much sharper than a serpents tooth is the tongue of a child." Think I quoted that right. Don't have time to look it up. Of course there is always, "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days will be long upon the earth."

Red bug story later got to go to church.

I'm shreading junk mail for my plants

iluvcatz, that is BRILLIANT, why did I never think of that?

Jim my days are long enough, how much longer are we talking here? Is there a crankyface icon? I'm tired & cranky. Think I'll have another muffin...
(oops that was fresh...I am going to be a remedial student...) I do like that first quote, though, sounds like my little one.....my mother always says your children keep you humble...if that's a euphemism for exhausted I'm right there. Well probably partly because I've been waking up at 3 or 4 AM the last few nights, which is just ridiculous. I'm a little punchy.
slugs/serpents...hmmmm....

Well brother Jim, YOU’RE the one that said ‘slimy’ okra first!! LOL I’ve actually tried it fried but it didn’t appeal to me. It may be a ‘subconscious’ dislike more than from the taste. But with the buffet world full of so many other selections I don’t NEED your okra! How COOL that you’ll be preaching (or preached already ;o) at your first church. That is sooooo neat! How’d it feel? Bet you met a lot of old (and I MEAN old ;o) friends, right?

Yes….of COISE the Three Stupids! I always loved them, haven’t watched in years though.
Now we must give Jim the benefit of the doubt here. If not he might just find out where we live and come put a slug on our HEADS!! AARG!!!! Good idea about posting each separately too. And that way it won’t look like I’m writing a novel eve time I write! Of course it'll look like I'm monopolizing the threat but what the heck. LOL



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another thread, I have to admit it it easier than choping up all those twigs

Lynnie, if the $ was already weak then I hate to think about what you COULDN’T buy there now! And it’s not looking like it will get better for a loooooong time. I can remember when the $ was THE top currency. Wish we could go back to then…….

lainy…me spy on you???..... why NO, I wouldn’t do such a thing. FOR MERCY….why ever do you ask?? LOL Eau de cologne mint?? That’s a riot! I’ve never heard of that. I do have an Apothecary rose in my back yard though which is used in the perfume industry. KNITTED SUITS FOR YOUR SLUGS??? Dear lainy….you’ve gone and lost your bloomin mind! My slugs only wear grass skirts (males too) since grass is abundant in our yard and ever so much cheaper than knitted fabrics. ;o)
And what’s wrong with PEE soup? HA!! (It does seem like you’re loosing your marbles dear, must be something about having slugs on the brain….oops! I mean mind. ;o) Oh yes, and I’d LOVE to see those critters bungee jump! That gives me an idea about how to use our hundreds of rubber bands in the kitchen drawer……………..

iluvcatz, I don’t really have too much time on my hands. But I usually wait till it’s waaaaaaaay past bedtime to check out my email and forums. Today I’m doing it early. TA DAA!!
By the way does your brothers GF live near a nuclear power plant???!??? GROSS!!!!!!!!

You guys can also just push down the scroll wheel which will set it to scroll up or down at various speeds depending on how far up or down you pull the mouse. Just click it again to stop that function. That’s even easier than using the margin scroll. If I were in the UK and wanted ice I’d have to offer to pay for more then two cubes! Now my husband would be fine with that but I need a glass full for myself, no kidding. They’d make a bundle off me just selling me ICE!
I can’t imagine WOMEN peeing just off the road………in PUBLIC?? REALLY???? Men maybe although here they'd be arrested if caught. But I just can’t wrap my head around women doing that. I HAVE actually had to right NEXT to the car between the door and my hubby standing on the other side to block the view (snickering all the time of course). Really?............. they do that out in the OPEN?? I still don’t believe it. Yes Lynnie, it IS a man’s world too, especially when they’re in a fishing boat. That’s the only time I wish I were a man…. LOL

Lynnie, I can tell you why you didn’t see any slugs in Ireland. They stay in the forests with the fairies since they fairies need something to ride on. Of course the slugs move sooooooo slowly that’s the reason you never SEE the fairies when your there!!! You’re so lucky you got to go there. I’m of Irish decent and one of my dreams is to actually go there and photograph everything. My birth mother’s maiden name was Kelley (notice the extra ‘e’). For some reason hundreds of years ago the Kelly’s got mad at each other (I’m guessing here) and parted and the new group started adding the extra ‘e’ in their name. Hmm….maybe that explains my ‘sometimes’ cantankerous personality, ya think??? LOL WOW! And you’re a way better woman than me!! Something tells me you’re MUCH younger than I am! How do you manage getting so much done at one time? I’m jealous ‘cause I remember being able to ‘multi-task’ like that too. ;o)

Jim, you hit the nail RIGHT on the head with your very astute evaluation of us ‘slug folks’! I couldn’t have said it better myself. ;o) I have to tell ya though, if you drooled over MY blueberry muffins I might have to take a poke at your nose…a HARD poke!! I don’t want NO droolin on my blueberry or any OTHER kind of muffins!!!

icanfindroom, I’ve heard there’s a ‘few other’ peeps from the slug thread that sneak over to the mint thread on occasion too. I’ll NEVER tell who they are though!! I’ll have to check out that slug trivia too. It actually does sound very interesting. And that’s what I would have said about what good are slugs, they eat garden waist. Just too bad that they eat the GOOD plants too AND that they leave that trail of YUCK everywhere they go! BLECK!

Lynnie, it sounds like you’re a very good daughter. Every mom needs one (I can attest to that!). I completely understand why your mom is ‘attached’ to those bushes. They undoubtedly DO have great sentimental value to her. That’s why my living room is turning into a forest from all the plants I’ve kept from funeral visitations. Sometimes I wish I didn’t WANT to keep them because they really are getting too plentiful. But I can’t resist the ‘tangible’ way they enable me to remember…..

OK…enough seriousness and BACK to the silliness!
Since icanfindroom gave those slug facts and explained that they have two tentacles moving independently, they can see in two directions at once I NOW understand WHY they’re soooooo slow!! They’re confused about where to go!!!