Hmm... when I wrote "drill some holes" in cactii I meant it, it was not a figure of speech.
Terrible mind... tsk. tsk.
Terrible mind... tsk. tsk.
Howdy, I reckon ya could a'shoot atta varmint, horse thieves, cattle rustlers, rocks.... but some of them a'shoot back, a'charge at ya, a'bite back or them bullets bounce in gosh darn crazy directions.
Now, them cactus tend to be sorta big 'n don't go a'movin' much.... well... 'course if ya a'shoot it enough it might topple, so make mighty sure to stay away from it.
Kinda the safest thing to a'shoot in da desert.
Pardner.
Safest for a drunk to let off some aggression?
The other opponents (except rocks) might react in a way that would scare the drunk back to his or her senses.
.32 ammo is $2 here for a cartridge, and 7 mm is $3, and guns are difficult to get here.
12 gauge cartridge, $1.50 and up.
So we are a little safer here.
Reading incidents on the Darwin Awards site is educative...
The other opponents (except rocks) might react in a way that would scare the drunk back to his or her senses.
.32 ammo is $2 here for a cartridge, and 7 mm is $3, and guns are difficult to get here.
12 gauge cartridge, $1.50 and up.
So we are a little safer here.
Reading incidents on the Darwin Awards site is educative...
Yes, but I was not sure if were pulling my leg or not.
Sometimes the type of humor is mixed up.
I am a big fan of P.G.Wodehouse, Gerald Durrell, James Herriot, Ogden Nash, and a couple of North American writers, their books I read at school library.
One was a Chicago / Toronto based teacher, one story was a student's report about 'Willy Shagsper' and the student spelled the name in about 57 different ways.
Just remembered, it was Stephen Leacock, Canadian author, passed away in 1944.
James Thurber? Anybody familiar with his work?
Sometimes the type of humor is mixed up.
I am a big fan of P.G.Wodehouse, Gerald Durrell, James Herriot, Ogden Nash, and a couple of North American writers, their books I read at school library.
One was a Chicago / Toronto based teacher, one story was a student's report about 'Willy Shagsper' and the student spelled the name in about 57 different ways.
Just remembered, it was Stephen Leacock, Canadian author, passed away in 1944.
James Thurber? Anybody familiar with his work?
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Actually, shooting out in the desert is OK, so long as you are not in someone else's private property or Federal lands.
The sightlines are extremely long and there really is not much out there.
The sightlines are extremely long and there really is not much out there.
Well who else’s land would it be? Every square inch of this planet it owned by somebody now, be it persons, corporations, or governments.
I took down three trees from my backyard that were getting to be around 100 feet tall. One had fallen earlier and took out a fence. Two of the others would have been able to take out much of a house. The third was doing poorly and would have taken out another bit of fence.
As is my habit when I take down a tree I plant new ones. This years new seedling trees turned out to be attractive to deer. As a pair can be seen if carefully inspecting the attached image. They appear as brown blobs. (Cell phone camera!)
I suspect these new seedlings will not survive the winter, so more to plant this spring. However there are also three new trees that grew spectacularly since the removal of the others. They are now large enough that they should do well.
At my shop I took down one unhealthy tree and planted a new one. Some gerzflr liked to run over the small tree is his pickup truck in the winter. So come spring I planted three new trees and put a small border around them made of sharpened stainless steel triangles. The pickup truck damaged a tire on the next foray! Hasn’t been back. Also a semi tried backing up over one of the trees and damaged it, however it recovered. That driver now no longer uses my lot for overnights and turn arounds. (I don’t mind trucks using my lot at night, but it did tick me off that he also used the planted border to drive over.)
As is my habit when I take down a tree I plant new ones. This years new seedling trees turned out to be attractive to deer. As a pair can be seen if carefully inspecting the attached image. They appear as brown blobs. (Cell phone camera!)
I suspect these new seedlings will not survive the winter, so more to plant this spring. However there are also three new trees that grew spectacularly since the removal of the others. They are now large enough that they should do well.
At my shop I took down one unhealthy tree and planted a new one. Some gerzflr liked to run over the small tree is his pickup truck in the winter. So come spring I planted three new trees and put a small border around them made of sharpened stainless steel triangles. The pickup truck damaged a tire on the next foray! Hasn’t been back. Also a semi tried backing up over one of the trees and damaged it, however it recovered. That driver now no longer uses my lot for overnights and turn arounds. (I don’t mind trucks using my lot at night, but it did tick me off that he also used the planted border to drive over.)
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Ed, I approve and applaud your choice of border materials and devices encircling newly planted trees.
The wwweb is full of anecdotes about the advantages of building a mailbox support pillar from 4x4 steel I-beam with concrete base 15" deep in the soil, enveloped and hidden by 1/4 inch thick cedar planking. Just in case the snow plow driver sometimes "accidentally" plows over your mailbox.
The wwweb is full of anecdotes about the advantages of building a mailbox support pillar from 4x4 steel I-beam with concrete base 15" deep in the soil, enveloped and hidden by 1/4 inch thick cedar planking. Just in case the snow plow driver sometimes "accidentally" plows over your mailbox.
Or railroad spikes pointing up, covered by pine needles. For the a-hole with the 4x4 that thinks it’s funny to run down people’s mailboxes.
