You know I was picking at Kunoichi and Bonnie the last time we were “Jus Shooting the Breeze,” and I might have found a couple more to pick on instead of these two, if I’d been just a little sharper! But, when it comes to someone “putting their foot in their mouth, you’re looking at one of the best!
This comment from Barbara;
What a fun column to read today. Thanks guys. Dub, I hate to tell you, but I think Bonnie and Kunoichi can give you a good run for your money when it comes to telling tall tales.
See guys…it’s obvious Barbara is giving me “a heads up,” before I “mess up!” Thanks Barbara!
Kunoichi was telling us about those dern Goliath frogs, and their offspring the tadpoles, eating baby ducks. Well, I thought Kunoichi must have “bumped her head” on something.
Then I pulled up Goliath frogs. WHOA!!! Talking about being “corn fed??” These guys were about appropriately named as you can get! They’re huge.
Three feet long stretched out, and weigh as much as seven pounds. They mainly eat crabs, insects or smaller frogs. What do you think the likelihood of those guys finding “a smaller frog,” running about? I’m thinking pretty good!
Oh, and the occasional baby duck, which at this point I’m really not seeing this to be a problem, tadpole or not! I mean a 3 pound tadpole for God’s sake?? Looks to me like they’d just pretty much eat any dad-gum thing they’d want to.
Kinda of like…what does the 300 pound canary say while walking down the road?
“Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!”
Think about camping out, not knowing something like this exists, and waking up and that thing sittin’ there checking you out?
That would be pretty astonishing wouldn’t it? I gotta tell you though, after my first initial shock, I’d revert right back to just being Dub. The next thing I’d be thinking is some flour, hot grease, and “look at the size of those dern legs!” Ummmm, ummm! Eat, or be eaten…that’s the way I look at things!
Anyway, check out the link below, and look at the picture of those three kids holding that one frog.
You know, I’m not an advocate of punishing children by putting them in “time out” at all. To me, I don’t feel, well, I might be putting my foot in my mouth again, because I feel it doesn’t work…period!
BUT, if you had something like that frog there, and made the children sit down and “take em a time out” with that dern thing on their lap, well…that might bring a whole new meaning to the phrase!
That was the first thought I had when seeing that picture, “Man, those kids must have REALLY messed up! Shoot, it looks like the frog has that little feller’s in the middle hand in his mouth!
http://frogsaregreen.com/3345/goliath-frog-the-worlds-biggest-frog/
I wasn’t sure if Kunoichi had seen any of our garden variety Geckos here in Florida. They’re becoming rare, so I posted a couple pictures. This picture (1) shows a large Gecko on the left, and just off to the right are two of its much smaller cousins…the Gekkies.
In picture (2) we see the rarest of the rare…the Albino garden Gecko.
Picture 1
Picture 2
So, you see with “my Gecko pictures” I’m pickin’ at Kunoichi once again. I will admit though, after seeing Barbara’s fair warning, I should maybe leave well enough alone, but no…not Dub. I’m posting our Garden Geckos found here in Florida!
Then, Kunoichi sends ME pictures of the grasshoppers up in her neck of the woods!
Picture 3
Picture 4
WELL DONE Kunoichi…I SURRENDER! I had been warned, but I paid no heed! As Deb says, “I’m maybe a few fries short of a Happy Meal!”
Then I go on to pick at Bonnie, and same result…I get no respect.
Tell about her getting packets of Cowhorn Okra from General Robert E. Lee hisself, and she throws it right back at me.
“Thanks, Dub! You started my day off with a good laugh, and we can all use a good laugh to get us going! I think I will go and meditate now, and see if I can remember where I was when I packaged up those okra seed for Gen. Robert E. Lee to pass out to YOU!”
Bonnie
Then Kunoichi double teams me WITH Bonnie… “I love your story about getting okra seeds from General Lee! Yes, I can sure see that sticking in your memory!”
NO, not my memory Kunoichi…Bonnie’s memory!
Do any of you other menfolk remember when women “knew their place??” I long for the good ole days!
Anyway, Bonnie did supply us with some really good info in regards to Cowhorn Okra.
So, without further delay…………here’s Bonnies info on the okra:
55 days. Abelmoschus esculentus. Plant produces high yields of 14″ long green okra. The large pods remain spineless and tender up to 10″ long, but are best when the pods are picked at 6″ long. Excellent for making gumbo. This heirloom variety dates back to pre-1865. A great variety for market growers. Plant Height: 8 ft tall. Certified Organic.
Gosh, I hope Kunoichi’s grasshoppers never migrate to Texas! My other half is from there, and the Texas mosquitos are bad enough! We were sitting at the picnic table one evening, steaks just off the grill and smellin’ great! Now, in Texas, they have BIG steaks. Anyway, I heard something sort of buzzing, coming closer and closer. Then, it happened! Two mosquitos swooped down, one grabbed my big platter with the steak on it on one end, and the second mosquito grabbed the other end, and off they flew with my dinner! I heard one of them tell the other as they flew away that they should stop on the way home and eat the steak so the big ones wouldn’t take it away from them when they got home!
Oh, my! Thanks for the laugh! I’m wiping away tears now. *L*
I must say, I’m glad we don’t have any of your “geckos,” but if you think our grasshoppers are big, you ought to check out our mosquitos. This one is from a town not too far from where I grew up.
Actually, the local ones are pretty small, but they made for their lack of size with quantity. The clouds of them made it almost impossible to go out in the evenings, even with bug spray. We used to burn smudges for the cows so they could have some relief. They’d go into the smoke to get away from the mosquitos until they had to come out to breath fresh air for a while, then go right back into the smoke as quick as they could, poor things. Purple Martin towers were a big help, though they stayed around for only a short time. BC, on the other hand, didn’t have many mosquitos, but the ones they did have were HUGE! They could deep fry the legs and sell them to tourists as chicken.
My own home town, unfortunately, was more famous for its wood ticks (not, thankfully, the more dangerous deer ticks), but we decided against making a statue to celebrate that fact!
Bonnie, they sure don’t go half way with anything down in Texas, do they! Even their mosquitos are big. ;-D
Add some more. Eastern Lubber Grashopper at 4 inches. Big jokers. Don’t forget the Cain Toads 3.9 to 5.9 inches and 5.8 pounds. Cain Toads from South America imported to police sugar cane fields. Both of these can be found in Florida, Dub. (RUN) The grass hoppers are Weta from New Zealand and are now a protected species. The plan is to export them to Australia. Two giant African bull frogs, one at 9.5 inches with a weigh in at 4.4 pounds and the Goliath at 13 inches and 8 pounds. Both of these frogs used as a food source. These big guys don’t need photo shopping.
I could not find the size of the tadpoles to these big frogs but our native bull frogs here have nice 1 inch or better tads. Native bull frogs here are not little guys. I’ll stick to my little rain and tree frogs that lull me to sleep every night. Real cutie pies.