…when you ask for a gate for your birthday
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People love to do crafts with pine cones. You might be able to get people to take the pine needles too.
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That’s taking the farm girl thing to a mastery level. What kind of spider are we talking? I’m able to get wolfies in a cup in the house and outside to safety but must say a spider on my neck would still elicit a scream, run and fast swipe off. And possibly ripping off my tshirt to be sure it’s not on me.
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According to my google search which may or may not be accurate, it was a “Triangulate Cobweb Spider”. I was moving hay and felt something on my neck and went to swipe it off when I realized it was something moving, so I pulled it off and it was a small spider. Now if a wolf spider landed on me I’d be a lot less composed!! This one was small, dark red, and had tiny white dots down the center of its back.
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Yes please.
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Just looking at that spider gives me butterflys.
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Liberty brand hose reels with a price point around $170. Made of anonized aluminum. Also note I have a pure rubber hose and really like the feel of that.
https://www.libertygardenproducts.com/products//sku/707
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Nice hose reel!
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In regard to spiders, if it’s clearly a garden spider that simply made a wrong turn and ended up in the house, I will catch it and bring it outside. However, if it’s one of those big brown house spiders that one finds in the tub or sink, they’re dead meat. I’ll also catch yellow jackets, wasps, or bees that somehow end up in the house and release them outside.
I asked for a load of gravel for my birthday and got it.
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A load of gravel. I love it. You are a farm girl to the bone.
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I got birthday gravel from my parents a few years ago!
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Waiting for my birthday arena sand right here! 70 tons, and man I can hardly wait.
Yesterday I was coming out to do the evening chores and saw a baby porcupine all tangled up in my electranet chicken fence (luckily it wasn’t on). I said well damn, went and fetched my husband’s heavy rubberized winter gloves and a barn scissors and went to work on cutting him free. Did you know baby porcupines make sweet little bleating noises? Me neither. I did lose a section of fence, but it was a great feeling watching him waddle away. Even though I really don’t like porcupines! They get into the apple trees and I have a young dog who has not been baptized. My dogs seem to need to learn by experience, sadly.
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Has anyone already said, “When all of your pockets contain hay chaff, all of the time?”
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When I used to watch Dr. Pol’s show, they had dogs have to be sedated to take out a lot of quills, and then the dogs were back for more removals a couple of days later.
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Well, I take them out with pliers. Maybe that’s why they only need one experience!
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That’s a hell of a birthday gift. W.O.W. That was one lucky little porcupine.
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Once, at church choir practice, I stuck my hand in my pocket wondering what was in there and pulled out a handful of dried mealworms. All were gratifyingly shocked.
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Thank you. I needed this today. 
And the excavator feeling.
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I bet Peter and Andrew and James and John would’ve loved to borrow some!
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Well, St.Francis would have appreciated them, I think.
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