Smartie's Bar & Grill #75

This will give you a sense of just how many gators are there. Bet a few 15+ footers are around

 

Speaking of watermelons how is your crop doing?
I am getting plenty of okra but everything else is gone. It is getting around the time to plan a fall garden and get the soil ready. Fall pole beans is something we are thinking about and a greens garden. Our grapevines are looking good and also the wild vines in the woods have a lot of grapes.

 

Watermelon look good. When they are harvested I will turn the place over to the goats. Have pole beans coming on now.

 

Are watermellons considered a *crop.Doesn't sound right.
I mean,I don't done tink that anyone told that to Black comic
actor Godfrey Cambridge { a favorite of mine and my neighborhood buddy }
He had a hilarious Cambridge LP we used to, play for a good belly laugh.
He was actually funnier than Redd Foxx another favorite of ours.
Cambridge did - Watermellon Man - { 1970 }.

* a warm-season crop needing lots of sun and good drainage.
It don't say nuthin' about rotating a watermellon to expose it's
belly for needed sunlight.
Maybe that's what a watermellon man is used for.
They could have made a movie called Watermellon Chick.
I think they { Who Dey } done did.
Today's contribution my ... :
Me me me me me me ... Meeeeeeeeeeeee !

 

Pole beans are too Polish.It's like making the case that sauerkraut
comes ready-freedy with caraway seeds.Like Santa Klaus comes
ready with elves.
PF comes ready with Politics.
A Car comes ready with tires.
Humor comes ready with ... ?

 

Saw a little flock of these in my yard.. the way they move is just comical.. my bunch had about 12 chicks.. do hope the roadrunners do not get too many of them.

 

For Fattie
Twas on the porch of my office, saw it's tail first and tho't to myself "that's a awful big tail for a lizard"

 

Don't think things are totally different here.. we have asses on the roads too!

 

The 50 year flood of 2008, just inches from going over the levy. When I looked from my office porch past my bodega line of sight to the top of that levy, just the very top of the roof of my bodega was above that line of sight. had it breeched the levy , it would have wiped thios town out.. again.

 

Nice (except for the gators).

I gotta get my canoe back out on the water...

BTW, Howdy, y'all - been a while since I dropped in. Hope you're having a great summer.

 

Animals are interesting.Not as predictable as thought.
I bought - Hatari - { 1962 } a long good movie with John Wayne.
It took about a week to watch.A little each drinking night.
A pretty female photographer got a job out on the Safari ranch.
Wayne and crew went out each day to cage { catch } a list to
exotic african wildlife that zoos require.Gazells,a Giraffe,Wildebeast
and Rhino { very dangerous to catch }.
The Female photographer became friendly with the House { Ranch }
Jaguar.At first scared silly.Then a Baby elephant { who lost a Cow Mommy }
and that means it won't get feed.So she begged and until they decided to adopt
the Baby elephant.Then the problem of where to git milk.So they bought a
small herd of goats and milked.I saw them back at the ranch running around with
hyenas on ropes.
I remember in Clark Gable's movie - Mogambo - { 1953 } they had some
actual footage of a ticked off very large Gorilla.
- Hatari - was shot on location at Arusha National Park,Tanzania.
All animals captured were done by the actual actors with no stuntmen
involved.

 

What a coincidence. I live near where some of the early wars with the Native Americans began around 1609 and you live near where some of them ended in 1880.

There was some fierce fighting here in Virginia between the English who initially settled in Jamestown in 1607 and the surrounding Algonquins in the Powhatan Confederacy, and both sides routinely massacred each other. Needless to say, this set a bad precedent for future generations:

Anglo-Powhatan Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Powhatan_Wars

Strangely enough, the local hops festival in Central Virginia (near Richmond) - Hops in the Park - is held on the site of the second successful English settlement in the New World, the Citie of Henricus (founded 1611), that got wiped out by Opechancanough and his warriors in 1622 (monument to the victims pictured below):



Henricus Historical Park
https://henricus.org

Indian massacre of 1622
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre_of_1622

 

When I was a kid, I thought quicksand & lava would play a much bigger role in my life.

Good to see y'all! Heres a couple of birds of prey pic from my friends place in the country! The owl had a baby nearby!

 

Talon.. yeah.. what happened to the Indians? We married them, we absorbed them, they are us and we are them. they drive automobiles.. down here they call themselves Mexicans..

 

Looking at the photo with the old buildings (Camp Holland built some 30 years after the event on the monument) you see the creek/arroyo to the right? the Apaches were pinned down there and the Pueblos were up in the hills on either side of the old camp.. the Pueblos kept the Apaches pinned down until Gen Greirson arrived with troops in Valentine a rail road town some 6 miles north (a brand new rail road) and rode in to effect the capture.

 

sorry .. pretty girl came in and I lost my mind! LOL

 

That a Western diamondback have a very nasty bite box him up and ship them to me eh?

 

Been a while.. I shipped him to a friend in Illinois.. Mr Matt (RIP) . Mrs Matt must be very patient! LOL

 

It is raining again. I need to treat my deck.

 

I was wondering how 4 Pueblos got the best of 20 Apaches.

Also, interesting to note that Indian scouts fought alongside U.S. troops. You don't hear or read much about the Native American alliances with European settlers and their descendants, but those alliances go all the way back to the Settlement Era.

 

Seen in the neighbor's yard. Roast chicken anyone?

 

LOL - You've got a loose screw rattlin' around in your noggin, Fattie. You are the one and only person I have ever seen ask someone to ship them a venomous snake.

 

No need to apologize, Todd. It happens to the best of us.

 

Goats ain't stupid!

I have wild raspberry bushes growing at the wooded edges of my yard, that I always have to compete with the deer, to harvest first.

I've got an apple tree, on the other side, which attracts deer, as well. One of the funniest animal sights I've ever had, came last season, when I must have come out of my home extremely quietly because, as I got to my car in the drive, and a line of sight opened between myself & the tree, I caught a nearby deer unawares, which had picked up one of the red globes, in its mouth. The deer froze, in an awkward position, its head raised but front legs splayed, as if it had been bobbing for apples, and then, in cartoonish fashion, its mouth dropped agape, and the apple fell to the earth and bounced on the grass, below.
It's hard to paint, in words, what a humorously ridiculous scene this made.