i have slugs

Jim you KNOW I’m going to look up that scripture! It’s one I’m not familiar with…..

Welcome from me too jjsgramma. OH…..and I’m number 227!!!
And you can see who has the MOST free time today I guess too, right??? IT’S ME!!!

I'll try and check in before bed tonight. have a great rest of the day all!

HA! Lynnie, I see you snuck in a post before I added all of mine. I do mine in Word (with two windows open) so I can keep track of what's posted already. That's the only way I can keep track (though if I COULDN'T keep track I'd probably take much less time and space for mine. ;o) Anyway, I'm sorry you're having trouble sleeping lately. I'm a frequent insomniac, though lately I've been doing pretty good. How old are your kiddo's? Being a good mom (sounds like you are for sure), keeping up with everything, being there for EVERY one when they need you, and on and on...... it's a wonder on a mental level ANY mom can get a nights sleep, let alone find the time to sleep. You know life goes in cycles and you'll pass through this one and get back on that 'even keal' soon.
I say 'Have another muffin and HECK.....have a couple for ME too!! It'l get better, promise' ;o)

i'm not sure. he's going to email me the pic later tho

iluvcatz, you mean a picture of the slug?

Yea Lynnie squash borers shiskabob better than slugs they don't slime ya when you put them on the skewer. 3 year old grandson was here today helping and it was hilarious he would crouch down and that little butt crack was a showin just like a old farmer my husband started calling him farmer Dill. His name is Dillon and we call him Dill.
Lynnie Grammy Jo can have the blueberry send me the CHOCOLATE muffins. I don't know how anybody keeps track I must be to new at this

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iluvcatz my friend wants your friend to come over for dinner

Well gang you have been busy.

Lynnie I imagine you are in bed by now and if so I hope you sleep well. I hate to wake up and get back to sleep. All the rest of you guys keep hands off the blueberry muffins. Lynnie baked them especially for me. Probably even used Splenda to keep me out of a dieabetic coma.

On slick okra, other folks called it slick and I being the southern gentleman I am didn't want to disagree. I just think it is delictabally easy to swallow. GrammJo the okra on a salad bar is pickled. A true waste of good okra.

It was enjoyable to go back to the first church. Only a few faces from 28 years ago. A lot of the folks have gone the way we all have to go.

Red-Bugs and Blue-Berries (red bugs and chiggers are the same thing)

July 7 three years ago, I had my second by-pass surgery. A lady in the church, who was going to Florida on a job with her husband, told Joanne she could pick her blueberries. Unfortunately, the doctor had other ideas for us. After we got back home it dawned on her about the berries. She called the ladys mother and asked if any were still on the bushes. "Oh child, they are loaded." Well I wasn't about to be left behind so I put on my shoes (still in pj's) and off we went. Instead of bushes they were trees. Don't guess they had ever been pruned. Sure enough, they were solid blue from the top to the bottom. You could take a limb and just strip it because all were ripe. Well folds, I was just one day out of the hospital and not up to heavy duty pickin but Jo gave me a one pound coffee can and said that wouldn't tear anything loose. I just eased around the perimeter and picked. Little ole Jo was all over those trees. Up in among all the branchs. Man, she thought she was in blueberry heaven. We picked 10 gallons of blueberries. All was right with the world. Blueberries and ice cream, blueberry pie, blueberrys on cereal and of course blueberry muffins were on her mind as she drifted off to sleep. The next morning the bed shaking woke me up. There she sat in all her womanly glory scratching and scratching. She was covered with red bugs from head to foot. I don't think you could poke her with your finger and not hit a bug. Ole Jim just had one or two. Moral of the story: don't go berry pickin unless you've just had heart surgery. Get less red bugs that way.

Grammyjo the scroll wheel makes me dizzy :)
Thanks for your kind words, my girls are 7 & 9, they're just happy little kids. Right now I'm the sandwich generation, getting a little smooshed by everything but you're right, it goes fast. Gotta enjoy it while it's here. You're right that I worry about everybody too. I have a big big family, so it's a lot of worrying lol

Jim I slept much better last night! Thank you!

iluvcatz sign that one up as the ringleader....do you think he's circus material?

jjsgramma Farmer Dill sounds like a cutie.....is that a squash bug in the picture? That looks kinda crunchy to shishkebob......
ok everybody, I have a shocking confession.....I have never actually touched a slug...I had no idea how slimy they are till you guys mentioned it. I should be kicked off the slug thread for sure!

Jim, I have to ask if you talked about slugs at all in your sermon....there's gotta be a lesson in slugs, no? I bet slugs don't get fresh with their moms. Hey both those scripture sound familiar to me....I'm rather proud I recognized them.

Poor Jo! Covered with red bugs!? Eeew! This is why I never go berry picking! I was blueberry picking with the kids & husband once, all I did was swat mosquitos...it doesn't matter how much bug spray I use, I get attacked. My husband considers me his personal mosquito repellent...nobody else gets bit if I'm around. I wonder if it was that orange soap they use in the hospitals that kept the bugs off you.....

JJ, what kind of bug is that?

I am going to try to start seadlings in eggcartons next spring. Has anyone else tryed this?

grammyjo that's a funny story about your ancestors......talk about a family fued.....if you ever get the chance to go to Ireland, go! It was beautiful. Rolling green hills, stone walls, very friendly people. We only stayed a few days in Dublin but took a train into the countryside (unaware that sometimes the trains don't come back) and we missed our stop...they don't call stops or anything. A man in our car was smoking up such a cloud that we couldn't see out the window & missed the sign. Ended up in a little town called Rathdrum....we wandered around, there was NOTHING there....the train station was just a platform, there were no people anywhere, it was just pastures & cows....we finally came upon the town center....it was full of antique cars, people dressed in 19th century styles...by now we were just wondering what the heck was going on....we walked down the street, heard "Spectators off the set!" We had wondered into a movie set! We finally found people in the pub (the whole town was in there, kids & all) and when we asked about the train were told there "might" be another one. If the 4:00 didn't come, maybe the 8:00 would.

iluvcatz my kids start seedlings every spring in egg cartons...we have only had somethng to plant once...they're still learning though, you may have better luck.

Lynnie, Did anything sprout? I have problems with the seedling pots because the dry up to fast and I figure the the egg carton would hold moisture. I also thought once the roots start comming out the bottem the whole thing can be planted in my flower boxes.

Your kids and I have somthing in commen. We are all still learning

yes, usually stuff sprouts, but the kids forget to water & then overwater, my windowsills take a beating. I let them pick whatever seeds they want, one package each, & they each get one egg carton, and usually one seed packet to an egg carton seems to work. I'm sure you'll be much more consistent with your care! The egg carton starts falling apart before planting time, but it's probably because of the overwatering.

Jim I didn't use splenda but my muffin recipe isn't really sweet, gotta let the blueberries speak for themselves. The recipes are old, there is actually a line in that cookbook about making sure to get all the drippings from meat & make a good gravy because it's packed with nutrients.....*grin* I LOVE that cookbook........

lol!! Thats funny. Kids will be kids. I'm planning on keeping the eggcartons in a plastic bucket to keep the mess contained as much as possable.

Lynnie and Iluvcatz that is a Slug Eater Beetle (no kidding). My little farmerdill has a lot to learn I fear to live up to that name, he was lots of help weeding turned around and he was cutting the flowers off of grandpas tater plants.
Iluvcatz my grandsons class grew plants for mothersday once in eggcartons. They had good results. Used the long trays you put under planters to contain the mess.
Here are my grandkids. The two boys in front with orange in their clothes. JJ is 9 and Dillon will be 3 next month.

Lynnie this is a squash vine borer

eeeew jj that is GROSS! I hope I never see that in my yard! I wish I had looked at your pictures in reverse, first I look at those two cute little boys then those worm things! I'm going to have to look at the cute kids again to get those pale weird grub things out of my mind.
I need to get out & water stuff, I was running errands this morning and I didn't realize I'm OUT OF COFFEE....that's not good! I had to buy my hubby a new bathing suit...his "shrunk in the wash" (she says with a totally straight face).

Hey guys!
Can't leave you guys for no more than three days and this is what you do! :-) (our internet "broke":-) So, the mint juleps have outposted us?!? The nerve! Hrmp!
Welcome to our English friend :) (just goes to show you that SLUGGERS are MORE popular :)! Oh and welcome to all the new posters :-) forgot where I left off three days ago...

There's a link up top "skip to new" that takes you to where you left off (just discovered it)...

Just got done watchin "A Haunting in Connecticut"... Said that it was based on a true story... Seriously?!? (I do looove ghost stories:-) Lynnie, I think WE live in a haunted house (or was a haunted house until we ran the ghosts out! :-) We're just too noisy for their taste I guess ^-^!

Oh btw, SLUGS RULE!!!

Chezka, I have seen skip to new a hundred times & paid no attention......geez!
I read about that movie a while ago, some critics think it's a ripoff of Amityville Horror...the article in the paper said the house in Southington had to be guarded from curiosity seekers.....don't know if that was true or for publicity or what. How was the movie?
I think slugs and ghosts can co-exist, there have always been both at my mother's. Of course the slugs stay outside.

Lynnie you are breaking my heart talking about those muffins. I can feel the saliva glands going into high gear. One of the best things about Germany was there pastry. Every little town had at least one bakery and the aromas would dry you wild. The villiage our daughter lived in didn't have a bakery but an open sided van came every day loaded down with fresh bread of all descriptions and lots of pastry. They used a lot of fresh fruit toppings on their sweets. It wasn't overly sweet but it was oh so good. Hungry yet? If not you should try their chocolate. My goodness, I do believe that is the best tasting stuff I ever had it my mouth. It's not milk chocolate like most of ours. Then they have these chocolates that are filled with different kinds of whiskey. Shucks child, you can get stoned out of your goard eating those. Course being a good Baptist and a tee-totaler I didn't try any of those. (Tongue in cheek, eyes rolled toward heave, mumbling a silent prayer for forgiveness) Hungry Yet? Slobbering like a mad dog? Ready to get you pass port renewed? Saving money for the plane ticket? And best of all I didn't see a slug while there. Didn't look to hard either.

Movie was awesome! :-) I actually jumped cos one of the scenes scared the bejeez out of me :)

Hey Jim41! Love pastries AND belgian chocolate! :)

Didn't try any Belgium chocolates. Liked Belgium. They like Americans. Every where you go their is a monument honoring American soldiers who died to set them free. Didn't like Paris at all. Only thing was the Eifel tower is waaaaaaay bigger than I imagined. Wanted to go the top but the line to ride the car up was probably a half mile long. Only other way was to climb up. Took one look at that belly hanging over my belt and knew that wouldn't work. French people wouldn't give you the time of day. Beggars everywhere. All smoking Winston or Marlborough cigrettes at about 5 bucks a pack. No telling what they cost over there now.

grammyjo would i lie to you???????????????
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Let the circus begin folks.
meet the ring master iluvcatz slug looks good enough to be ring master. all agreed? BUT can he chomp his way through a blueberry muffin whilst comparing?
next we need three little critters who can sliver there way through a bowl of slimy okra. any takers.

lainymay I was cringing as I opened that link, i forgot what you guys were talking about....that looks like a pretty cool plant though (can we say the m-word on this thread?) I was expecting another slimy bug!

Jim my sister & her husband went to France for their honeymoon, she said the same thing. They went to a restaurant & the waiter wouldn't take her order only her husband's & then they fought over the one meal. She said they were both starving & too tired to find another place.Pretty funny! I like dark chocolate best, but any chocolate will do in a pinch. mum's the word on the licqueur filled chocolate... ;)

lainymae we had a plant looked like the guernsey mint plant .Husband thought it was a weed gave it a GOOD DOSE OF ROUNDUP. My mom use to work in the greenhouse of the store she worked PT in and would bring me the plants that were half dead. I planted everything behind my neighbors garage and let it grow then my sisters and I would dig up what we wanted and give away anything else. I still have alot of plants I don't know name of.
Lynnie I like milk chocolate dark is to bitter for me.
Chezca I love scary movies will have to see that one.
I don't know about anyone else Jim but you made me drool guess I'll have to settle for carrot cake or Hershey bar . My Great-grandfather was from Belgium and the eldery couple I help sometimes are from Germany.Have a heck of a time, sometimes she can only remember the German name for what she wants. But after a game of 50 questions I figure it out. Thats as close as I can come to that side of the world.
NOW if someone can teach those circus slugs to deadhead flowers I'm in.

Oui, oui! Is it true about their teeth too?!? ^-^ (j/k!)

Nah, the closest I've ever been to Europe's watching BBC America :)... Loved GROUND FORCE and got very saaaadddd when Alan Titchmarsh left the show :( Then they totally axed the show! Loved Charlie and the big dude too! Ground Force wasn't "snooty" and pretentious like our garden shows here and the gf team really knows what they're talking about!

Right now my favorite chocolate is the stuff I get from- of all places- Walgreens! It's called "Merci" chocolates... really REALLY GOOD! (thin slivers of different kinds of chocolate [pralines, coffee, dark, mik, caramel, etc) I used to love Ferrero Rocher but the nuts get stuck in my teeth! Then I went on a Lindt phase, but that was too rich (flavor-wise) for me!

Do any of you have a whip you can loan me? I'm want to try to tame my slugs to attack and eat aphids and white flys. Jokers are back on my okra again. Read that Murphy's Oil soap would do the trick. Going to give it a try if it kills the okra. In the middle of a cool snap here in good ole Louisiana. Temp down to 80 degrees. Wish I had put on my warm ups to walk. Hate being cold. .6 of an inch of rain last night and the promise of more tonight.

Lynnie I had always heard of the great French food. I don't know who perpertrated that lie but they need to be horse whipped. We spent the night in Paris at a nice hotel. My son-in-law had military priveliges even though he was a civilian. We could stay for the same price as a good hotel room in the states, at that time about $65. We had spent all day sight seeing and decided to eat at their restaraunt. Bad move. After we go through and paid the enormous bill. We went to the car and broke out the peanut butter and crackers.

Our trip was a once in a life time thing. Son-in-law works for the Pentegon. Audits air force bases. Went to Germany for 3 years and had to stay an extra 2 because of an emergency in the family of the guy who came to replace him. They wrote for us to save our money for the plane tickets and they would take care of everything else. That's when I found out the difference of in season and out of season. We could have gone in Feb. or March for about $450 a piece. The kids would have been in school so couldn't go anywhere. Left June 13 instead. Cost - $1250. Tony had a lot of comp time built up so he took the month off and did all the driving. That is when I found out how small Europe is. We drove to Belgium, Luxemborg, Verdon France, all over Germany. We even drove to Amsterdown and back. Loaded the back of the car with jungle food, cold drinks and a one gallon can of gas. That was in case we got in a place that didn't have a service station that honored military personal. Gas was $1.65 a liter then. Only time we spent the night was 2 nights in the Bavarian Alps and in Paris. A million dollar vacation for a few bucks. Wouldn't take a million for going and wouldn't give 2 cents to go again. Stayed 1 week to long. The kids got sick of us and we got sick of them.

Jim you crack me up....I almost spit my coffee out laughing on that last line.....(I'm indulging in 2 of my few vices since I've had kids...coffee & chocolate...wait a minute, chocolate isn't a vice...) When we went to England for our friend's wedding it was more expensive...we took advantage & stayed almost 3 weeks. We were there for our 1st anniversary but funny enough I didn't remember, it was years before I could remember the date...I'm not big on dates....I tell my husband the marriage is more important than the wedding, no? He takes me out to dinner anyway.

Chezka & JJ, I eat dark chocolate chips from the bag..if I run out & get desperate I have been known to break into the baking chocolate, there is no chocolate too bitter for me lol Chezka I have never seen Ground Force....

JJ, that's the whole problem, no? The slugs ARE deadheading everything!

Does anybody know what slugs contribute to the garden? Are they just plain PESTS?

Lynnie, you should really check out Ground Force... Maybe rent the dvds (if they're availabe) or google it and maybe there are free episodes... They were sooo funny even though they're garden experts (well, at least Alan and Charie are. The big dude's expertise is building stuff like decks and masonry). They had a certain chemistry and plus the show was for a good cause like surprising a loved one or a school or a church or an elderly or disabled person with the coolest garden...

My dream vacation's renting a tricked out RV and driving from CA all the way to NY and visiting as many cities/local towns/tourist attractions in between. And getting a souvenir from each one! I wonder how long that'll take us... Internationally, I'd like to go to Ireland and live there for about a year or so wayy out in the boonies...

Lynnie I want them to only take the dead flower heads not everything. Took me hours to do it this past weekend I was so far behind. Luckilly my Farmer Dill is an Expert at pulling flowers! I think Ground Force was kinda like our extreme home makeover show except with gardens.
Jim a trucker friend of mine is on his way to Georgia maybe I can talk him into the long way home and he can swing by for truckload of your veggies!!

JJ can you imagine if janemarierose comes back to this thread to see that our conclusion is to train the slugs to only eat the dead parts lol

Chezka I love gardening my shows! I like Curb Appeal and another one I can't think of the name of....maybe it's on demand...Chezka go for the dream.

I've been wonderin the same thing about janemarierose :) We must've scared her... ^-^

Lynnie, if you love gardening shows you really need to rent/borrow Ground Force. If you're lucky enough to start watching it from the beginning, you'll get hooked! It was so popular that I think Alan even made a garden for one of Prince Charles' charities and the prince was there for I guess the unveiling. And it's not just for people that are well-off. IT's mostly for regular folks like us... Most of their episodes were very touching AND hilarious! (Gee, can you tell I'm a fan?!? lol)

As for the dream, that's a long ways off yet! Maybe WHEN i win the lotto... :-)

Maybe somebody can invent a whistle for slugs to train them (like a doggie whistle) ^-^

the slugs are comming out in force to join the circus, but which one of you is going to be thier full time keeper. not me.
for those who have made the trip to the uk, what were your impressions of us?