Visitors to My Garden . Part 3

Egads ! How did you loose a didge ?

How in the world did you lose a finger??

She was Prob.
Picking her nose when her mum hit her and it broke off ?
Common Eqi , Tell us what really happened .

Stupidity?

Long story but I was hanging on to a tray of plants and the wind grabbed the door. The door won. They were able to surgically re-attach it at the hospital because our oldest picked it up off the floor and stuck it in his pocket.

Stuck it in his pocket? Ugh.

I luv this thread... :-)

LOL. Yeah, never know what's gonna happen next.

Were the plants and door OK?

Funny you should ask about the door. That's the first question two of my brothers asked. The door was fine.

The plants were VFTs I was going to be using for a special project. Incredibly, I only lost a few but when word got out into the CP community, I had so many people and nurseries contacting me to replace them for free that I could have started my own VFT nursery if I had wanted to do so. We're talking offers of hundreds of plants and that is no exaggeration. I didn't even know who some of the people were who were contacting me offering to ship plants to me at their expense. I think my e-mail address and what I had propagated the plants for ended up on the listserve and it spread like a wildfire.

I've come to the conclusion that there are a lot of good souls out there.

Glad the door was OK Eqi .

Welcome kaperc .
Please join in on the Banter .
You just don't know which way it will turn next .
It's like when you come to a fork in the road .
What do you do ???
Take it of cause ? Kell

Bless your lil heart there for expressing such concern for our door ;)

kaperc iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis new- oh goodie goodie goodie! A new person who likes humor and wildlife!

Hey Eqi !!! It could have been worse ?

My latest Visitor .
Can any one see what it is ???

We sold Tokay geckos at a pet store where I used to work--ill tempered li'l varmints! You could feel the pressure of their bite through a thick leather glove. One was so mean we had to sell him cheap just to get rid of him (the guy just wanted it for looks). I told customers it had a "reptile dysfunction". :p

Good story KyWoods .
Only way you can make them let go if they bight is submerse them in water .
Sounds like our bull dogs .

Well, yes, I'm new over here. Saw the picture of the 'roo and couldn't resist, then I started reading and I was hooked. :-)

Yikes, ginger! Whatever that creature is, it sure looks creepy up close! Not to mention dead!

Looks like an upside down dead potato bug!

Goodness gracious! You've got a photograph of Darth Vader belly up without his black outer shell and that sexy helmet with the breathing holes. How ever did you manage to do that! My kids will be thrilled!

I bet I will know who will want that! enya!

editing to add that I meant to post this in an entirely different thread. I must have had a brain fart or something. Oops, enya would not want one of those dead things.

This message was edited May 24, 2007 10:55 PM

LOL. Equil, I was also thinking it looked like Darth Vader. Also looks like he got pushed over and can't get up. lol

Help me! Help me! I've fallen and I can't get up!

Wonder if Ginger will be able to figure that one out from down under?

LOL. Won't know til he gets back on here.

Ginger, leave the bugs alone and get back on here!!

Ginger, forgive me. My juvenile side took over for a bit-

ROTFL!!! I LOVE it!!!!!

I'm Baaaaaaaaaack .
Went and took horse Pics today .
It's for a Queensland Newspaper .
I fully agree with all of you .
It does look like Darth Vader .
Yoda was / is still my favourite .
Eqi, What is the white thing in your Pic ?
He was very much alive .
I never Kill Critters . Live and let live .

Another angle .

What is it? Looks like an oversized ant with spider sized legs. lol

So far kaperc is the closest .
Do you have potato bugs where you are ?
As you can see they are similar to PB but also quite different .

We have PBs here, though I don't see many. They seemed to be more ubiquitous when I was a child (a verrry long time ago). It was the body shape of yours that made me think of them - but there are too many points and wiggly parts.

They walk like some of the war machines on STAR WARS .
The wings look all wrong . Much to small .

Is it something in the Wind Scorpion/Sun Spider family?

Ahhhhhh ! another one Stelco doesn’t know .
No . None of them things .
You will fall over with surprise when I tell you .

# 1 Clue . Nearly as big as your game of Base Ball ???

That last photo looks a lot like some sort of a cricket of all things. Maybe a Mole Cricket? I have no idea what insect that could be that would be as big as one of our baseballs but I know they exist.

I didn't say as big as a base ball .
I said as big as your GAME OF BASEBALL .
Cryptic clue that is .
But you are close .

I've never heard of mole crickets, but it looks like they are all over the place http://www.whatsthatbug.com/crickets.html

Great find kaperc ,
And yes it is a Cricket .

My clue was "Base Ball Game" = Your national sport .
Our national sport is Cricket .

Well, Equil had it first.
My DH is from Yorkshire (though not a sports fan), so I would have picked up the clue, too.
It's a great web site - lots of good pictures.

I know Eqi. had it first ,
But I just wanted to make her suffer a little longer .
She's a big Gurl she can take it . lol

The photograph here-
http://davesgarden.com/forums/p.php?pid=3534285
makes me think of some sort of a mole cricket as it appears to be equipped to burrow.

I don't know what you've got there. Can't wait to find out.

In answer to your question before about what the white thing is in the picture, it's an electronic device that many people use in the event of emergency where they may not be able to get to a phone. You push the button and it automatically calls a central station that contacts 911 I think. For all the joking around we do at the expense of those medical alert devices, they really are one of the nicest things for people who are elderly living by themselves as well as others who may have disabilities or limitations who live alone. A long time ago, the creators of the origninal unit used to advertise these little jewelry-style units using a person who had fallen down. This actor in the commercial falls down and tries to reach for the phone and can't. The actor then calls out, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up" hence my comments. That commercial has been sort of a big joke around here for many years. So much so that I bought one of these devices for my MIL and she actually had to use it once when she fell down in her home and broke her ankle. If she wouldn't have had that "joke" device hanging around her neck, there's no telling how long she would have been laying in the middle of her kitchen on the floor.

That's what I get for taking a dog walking break and coming back and clicking send.

So what do you have there? Now I am curious. Is it a Mole Cricket of some sort or is it something similar? The mole crickets always remind me of something crustacean because of their body style and protective armor. They are sort of the Dart Vaders of the cricket world.