During this time, I have been crawled on by a lot of bugs. Fortunately, I am not afraid of bugs. I kind of think they are cute, unless they sting. I let pretty much any bug crawl on me and I sort of like it. Unlike Silence and her hilarious post on a bug up her skirt, I am pretty much at one with the bugs. Not in the house though, I don't like bugs in the house either, Silence.
Well, anyway, the bugs are not the only things hanging around the garden. We have toads, which is great as they eat some of the bugs (hopefully mostly bad bugs). We are organic around here and do not spray or bait. We do squish. We squish the squash bugs.
Much like Silence, I like to garden in long cotton skirts. I also like to garden in loose cotton pants. They look like pajama pants. Well, maybe they are pajama pants. Just don't look over my fence, okay.
Tonight I weeded until almost dark. Unfortunately, I did not water until it was almost pitch black outside. The moon was helping a little. I was carrying a watering can through the garden gate towards the tomato plants at the back of the garden when I startled a toad. Well, I was moving pretty quickly, trying to save daylight, and the toad and I intersected.That stupid toad jumped right up my pant leg. The encounter did not last more than a few seconds, but I think I jumped about a mile. Fortunately, no plants were trampled during my toad extraction. I don't know who was more upset, the toad or me. I do not like to touch or be touched by toads. Monkeys laughed at me. I am plotting my revenge.
Oh, no! That's a new one! I actually love toads and kept them as pets when I was little, but even I wouldn't have wanted one crawling up my leg. Sadly, we don't seem to have a lot of them around here, so I'm always thrilled to death when I find one, as I did the other evening among the morning glories. Bad toad! bad Monkeys!!! Maybe you could get revenge by making them a toad-shaped pizza... or chocolate cake. My first attempt at a from-scratch chocolate cake, when I was in college, did look awfully toad-like, now that I think about it...
ReplyDeleteDebbie ... you are a better gardening woman than I ! .. the toad would not live with me having been its target .. not that I would intenionally kill it .. I would drop on it in a fit of shock .. poor thing would be squished .. then when conscious again, with said toad's innards on me, I would picth a fit screaming until the guys with the tight fitting WHITE jackets would come to haul me away to the funny farm .. it would be weeks, months, possibly years before I could stop screaming ... hum ? sounds like a movie in the making .. inside Joy's "Horrific TOAD Delusions" via what was left of her brain ?
ReplyDeleteEEEEUUUUUWWWWW !!!!!!
ofb, they would like a toad shaped pizza or cake. We are going to have to come up with something different. I think I will just pants them.
ReplyDeleteJoy, So very glad you were not the victim. Toad guts, very very bad. But that was a fun visual.
I don't blame you! The stuff of nightmares! Creepy, crawl nightmares!
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I am cringing just thinking about the toad incident. I would need some serious therapy given my amphibian phobia. Once I accidently kicked a toad with my bare feet and came in the house and cried.
ReplyDeleteYes brenda, it was creepy.
ReplyDeleteHi sis, glad it was me an not you.
I once had a rat up my trousers. Which was HORRIBLE!
ReplyDeleteThat can't be right.
ReplyDeleteOkay, rat up trousers wins. Toads, bugs? Forget it. Rats. RATS!!!!! I think I have to lie down now.
ReplyDeleteOh! What fun! I love toads! Much better than the cicada killer that flew up my skirt one day.
ReplyDeleteHi ofb, go rest now. This comments on this post will be over soon and we can put this horrible chapter behind us.
ReplyDeleteHi Sherry, I should have figured you would love toads. I once walked into a college class with a bumble bee hanging on my skirt.
on it, not up it. Up it would have been very very bad.
ReplyDeleteIm getting post traumatic stress just reading these comments. I only blog about vegetables and nice things like that....!
ReplyDeleteHi Charlotte, Snuck over to GBVC and looked up your name. No lurking. Just kidding, lurk all you like. I do it all the time. This blog is not ment to cause PTSD, but you never know what's going to happen next.
ReplyDeleteSorry about the fright! I'm sure it would have startled me first, then I would have picked it up and introduced myself. I love amphibians, most reptiles too. They are the most curious-looking creatures.
ReplyDeleteI was very excited to find a toad in the garden this week. He was visiting my little ceramic turtles. I hope he's finding lots of big fat slugs.
Slugs are just plain gross, and I hate when one gets stuck on my finger when I'm playing in the garden. I can't squish them though, no matter how disgusting they are they're even more disgusting smashed.
Hi garden girl. Have you ever accidentally stepped on a slug with your bare foot? I have and it was the grossest thing ever.
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