Re: [gardeners] Southern Gardeners

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margaret lauterbach wrote:
> 
> At 01:37 PM 8/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >margaret lauterbach wrote:
> >>
> >> >So the easy answer is, we just don't weed.  It's too hot to be out
> >> >there this time of year.   Or we use a hoe and stand up and weed.
> >> >Or we've just got enough sense to watch for things that will
> >> >either kill us outright, or drag us down into their burrows and
> >> >eat us at their leisure.
> >> >Just some more of life's little ways to help control overpopulation
> >> >growth.
> >> >Sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself.........
> >> >
> >> >Bambi
> >> >Coastal Carolina
> >> >
> >> Seein' as how you're one of the wild thangs yourself...hey, wait a minute.
> >> "Overpopulation growth?" That sounds as malapropriate as "extraordinary act
> >> of God." Margaret L
> >
> >No, no, you don't understand. An "extraordinary act of God" in the south
> >is when you blow up the engine on your pickup pulling the tractor out of
> >the mud. ;-)
> >
> >George
> >
> George, I thought it was an "act of God" unless that pickup bed was full of
> mudbugs when you got it loose. Margaret

No, an extraordinary act of God would be to discover the bed of the
truck full of mudbugs where there hadn't been any prior to it getting
stuck. Of course if you had a bunch of fishheads in the bed that's
baiting and is illegal.

George

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