
Notice the snails. If I had moved a bit of the dried bits around you would probably see a dozen or so. Every year I get rid of thousands and every year thousands more show up. I can fill an ice cream bucket in about 15 minutes after a light rain. It doesn't help that I live next door to a greenbelt.
Mostly I just throw them out to the roadway. Yes I know that is cruel but I figure they can make a run for it to save their lives. The funniest thing was one day when I had tossed at least 100 snails out to the roadway and two teenage girls walked across the street. One said to the other "Look, it's a migration". I thought I would pee myself laughing. Who says they don't learn anything in school nowadays.
Mostly I just throw them out to the roadway. Yes I know that is cruel but I figure they can make a run for it to save their lives. The funniest thing was one day when I had tossed at least 100 snails out to the roadway and two teenage girls walked across the street. One said to the other "Look, it's a migration". I thought I would pee myself laughing. Who says they don't learn anything in school nowadays.
Oh that's too funny! Growing up we had a pink stick with a nail on the bottom & a beach pail with a tiny notch cut into the lip edge so you could de-skewer the snails intot he pail. Bleh. Glad my brothers got that job.
ReplyDeleteHaha... a snail migration. Although even funnier, the image of the snails making a "run" for it, to get out of the road.
ReplyDeleteAre they similar to slugs? To control slugs in the garden at our last house, we set out shallow pans of beer, sunk into dirt level. Slugs LOVE beer, and the silly buggers would climb into the beer bath and drown. The downside was that my garden smelled like beer; not my favorite scent!
And -- a "hair receiver" was an essential item on a lady's dressing table in Victorian and Edwardian times. It's a covered dish, with an open hole in the top of the lid. When a woman took down her "bun" at night, and gave her hair those 100 strokes with her brush, she would pull the loose hair out of the brush, roll it around her finger, and tuck it into the hair receiver, through the hole in the top.
Many of them were made of celluloid, that yellow-ish predecessor to modern plastic, and others were china, like the one on my dresser. My grandmother had waist length hair and actually used one of these!
When the dish was full, the hair was often put outside for birds to take for nest building. Plus, the Victorians did some oddball sentimental art work using human hair, so I guess that's why they thought it was worth keeping!
Thanks for commenting on my house staging complaints on Friday! You are SO right that blogging is a fantastic source of inspiration. I'm feeling way better and more confident already!
Best -- Cass (sorry for the long comment! I always have so much to say, I'm afraid.)