{"id":302,"date":"2002-09-03T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/302"},"modified":"2002-09-03T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2002-09-03T13:51:15","slug":"did-i-invite-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/302","title":{"rendered":"Did I invite you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent this weekend at the ranch, doing general ranchy stuff like drinking (good lord, we played quarters, even – haven’t done that<\/i> in 10 years), taking rides (one night we got very close to an alligator that was swimming in a tank), shooting lots of guns, fishing, eating good food, and basically unwinding.<\/p>\n

We did have a couple of uninvited guests, though. This young lady<\/a> was out on the sleeping porch, and had a relative on the back porch as well as one in the cow skull on the patio. We let her live until just before we left on Monday, when we went round and sprayed them all. Beautiful and deadly.<\/p>\n

This strapping girl<\/a> was above the woodpile and had a nightly feast of grasshoppers and crickets. Her body length alone is about 1.5 inches – adding her legs into that, she’s bigger than your palm. We left her in peace, since she’s non-toxic and eats lots of bugs. She had a smaller friend on the air conditioner nearby. <\/p>\n

There was also a scorpion scuttering around on the bedroom wall which I calmly whacked with a shoe but neglected to photograph. On our way out, we saw a yellowjacket nest that was probably at least 6 inches tall on the side of the house. We didn’t see any rattlesnakes this time, though.<\/p>\n

Y’all city wussies don’t know what you’re missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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