Forgive me, Gentle Reader, but I remain amazed and mystified at the tumbleweed collection amassed just outside my door. Thus a few more pics now that it's warmed up considerably and the coffee's been consumed. I NEVER go out without being fully caffeinated, ya know.
That meter box on the pole is about four feet off the ground. The last image (a close-up of one of the offending buggers) illustrates why cleaning these things up ain't so easy, even with thick work gloves. Being as how tumbleweeds are thistles
by definition they are RIFE with stickers. And the damned things get in your clothes, yadda, yadda. Obnoxious vegetation, if there ever was such a thing.
That meter box on the pole is about four feet off the ground. The last image (a close-up of one of the offending buggers) illustrates why cleaning these things up ain't so easy, even with thick work gloves. Being as how tumbleweeds are thistles by definition they are RIFE with stickers. And the damned things get in your clothes, yadda, yadda. Obnoxious vegetation, if there ever was such a thing.
Tumbleweeds do make a place look lonely - nothing that a flame-thrower can't fix.
ReplyDeleteKnow anyone with a flame-thrower, Lou? I could sure use one about now... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI would bet the farmers in Eastern NM will be getting out the flame-throwers this spring. Toby has one - he used to live in Eastern NM and watched his dad burn any and all trash/weeds.
ReplyDeleteYup, flame throwers work, grew up near Lubbock.
ReplyDeleteJust be careful, everything else is just as dry and flammable. Big grass fires run too fast to escape and burn everything in their path.
Lou: I think you're right. This year's t-weed crop is simply AMAZING.
ReplyDeleteSanta Jim: A lady (temp hire, methinks) came around and cleared out the mess this morning... with a lawn rake and NO gloves. She did NOT look pleased during the process, either.
They couldn't have paid me to do it that way. Been there done that when the pay was room and board at the preacher's house.
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