Comments on: Trees, part 2 http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/ thinking about life, playing with makeup Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karin http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9742 Karin Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:05:30 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2007/06/20/trees-part-2/#comment-9742 That's funny! I had a friend who visited who wondered why we had baby alligators around our pool -- they were chameleons. I called animal control and shut the alligator in my garage. They said it would snap a broom handle in half at that size and make a serious dent in a mental handle, because all the strength is in the closing motion. I have to say seeing the crocodile take down a grown wildebeest (not sure that was the animal) was definitely unappetizing in the Planet Earth series. I could have done without seeing it. Especially hearing how long the animal struggled. I would not want to come closer to one than the zoo. OTOH, my neighbor has one in her natural pool (not to swim in) that goes between it and the water hazard across the cart path. I've told her about it and I hope she gets it out. That’s funny! I had a friend who visited who wondered why we had baby alligators around our pool — they were chameleons. I called animal control and shut the alligator in my garage. They said it would snap a broom handle in half at that size and make a serious dent in a mental handle, because all the strength is in the closing motion.

I have to say seeing the crocodile take down a grown wildebeest (not sure that was the animal) was definitely unappetizing in the Planet Earth series. I could have done without seeing it. Especially hearing how long the animal struggled. I would not want to come closer to one than the zoo.

OTOH, my neighbor has one in her natural pool (not to swim in) that goes between it and the water hazard across the cart path. I’ve told her about it and I hope she gets it out.

]]> By: andrea http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9729 andrea Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:29:43 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2007/06/20/trees-part-2/#comment-9729 I was chased by an alligator in Florida when I was 3. Everyone else kind of laughed it off, but they were a lot bigger than me, and thus less appetizing! I KNEW it was coming to get me, so I climbed the picnic shelter! Also on that trip to Florida I was bitten by a cute little penguin (not a native inhabitant, obviously). They make the penguins seem so cute and sweet in the kids' books, but they are NOT! The zoo should at least keep them away from direct contact with small and brainwashed children! We get lizards in the house here every so often. And I once rescued a friend from an alligator lizard or "LIZARD THING!!!" as she called it. To be fair, she had just had an appendectomy a couple days before and was drugged up. I was talking to her on the phone, but she lived across the street, so I came and rescued her by catching the lizard. Then out in the street I ran into some boys and offered it to them and they just looked at me like I was crazy--sheesh! what are they doing to boys these days-refusing lizards!?! I was chased by an alligator in Florida when I was 3. Everyone else kind of laughed it off, but they were a lot bigger than me, and thus less appetizing! I KNEW it was coming to get me, so I climbed the picnic shelter!

Also on that trip to Florida I was bitten by a cute little penguin (not a native inhabitant, obviously). They make the penguins seem so cute and sweet in the kids’ books, but they are NOT! The zoo should at least keep them away from direct contact with small and brainwashed children!

We get lizards in the house here every so often. And I once rescued a friend from an alligator lizard or “LIZARD THING!!!” as she called it. To be fair, she had just had an appendectomy a couple days before and was drugged up. I was talking to her on the phone, but she lived across the street, so I came and rescued her by catching the lizard. Then out in the street I ran into some boys and offered it to them and they just looked at me like I was crazy–sheesh! what are they doing to boys these days-refusing lizards!?!

]]> By: Karin http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9667 Karin Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:44:36 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2007/06/20/trees-part-2/#comment-9667 Oh gosh, that's a funny story! I've had a black garter snake in my kitchen, some snakes on our porch (and one that looks like a coral snake, but isn't)over the years and an alligator in my garage. That was enough! A friend's daughter-in-law woke the other night because a frog landed on her. It's funny when it isn't you! Oh gosh, that’s a funny story! I’ve had a black garter snake in my kitchen, some snakes on our porch (and one that looks like a coral snake, but isn’t)over the years and an alligator in my garage. That was enough!

A friend’s daughter-in-law woke the other night because a frog landed on her. It’s funny when it isn’t you!

]]> By: andrea http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9591 andrea Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:43:51 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2007/06/20/trees-part-2/#comment-9591 Ah, squirrels! Twice in my life we have had sqirrels inside the house. Yikes! When I was a kid, living in the same house in the woods in front of which the tree fell on the VWs, we had sqirrels in the attic. And then they chewed through the ceiling (yum, asbestos!) and one of them fell through! I don't remember that part, but what I DO remember is what my parents did about it: they put a piece of wire screening over the hole--and just left it there! We could totally hear the squirrels then, and see them sometimes scampering over the hole! It is any wonder my house is at all inhabitable, after this sort of example, lol! I think the squirrel problem was eventually solved by a snake moving into the attic! I think it was the snake's idea, too! Later, in graduate school in upstate NY, a squirrel came down the chimney. And it was terrified, of course. It kept bouncing off the walls and leaving sooty marks. And my first efforts to save it made it more freaked out. Eventually I opened all the doors and kind of gently herded it out. Ah, squirrels! Twice in my life we have had sqirrels inside the house. Yikes! When I was a kid, living in the same house in the woods in front of which the tree fell on the VWs, we had sqirrels in the attic. And then they chewed through the ceiling (yum, asbestos!) and one of them fell through! I don’t remember that part, but what I DO remember is what my parents did about it: they put a piece of wire screening over the hole–and just left it there! We could totally hear the squirrels then, and see them sometimes scampering over the hole! It is any wonder my house is at all inhabitable, after this sort of example, lol! I think the squirrel problem was eventually solved by a snake moving into the attic! I think it was the snake’s idea, too!
Later, in graduate school in upstate NY, a squirrel came down the chimney. And it was terrified, of course. It kept bouncing off the walls and leaving sooty marks. And my first efforts to save it made it more freaked out. Eventually I opened all the doors and kind of gently herded it out.

]]> By: Karin http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9489 Karin Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:38:08 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2007/06/20/trees-part-2/#comment-9489 Hahahahah....we have a squirrel, or a few, who traipses across the screen of our pool. It doesn't bother me, but it does bother another member of our family, who will remain nameless, LOL! I remember caring for a baby squirrel that fell out of a nest when I was a girl. I don't remember now how we got the squirrel back to nature, but it survived. I have many fond memories of being in a Bug. Hahahahah….we have a squirrel, or a few, who traipses across the screen of our pool. It doesn’t bother me, but it does bother another member of our family, who will remain nameless, LOL!

I remember caring for a baby squirrel that fell out of a nest when I was a girl. I don’t remember now how we got the squirrel back to nature, but it survived.

I have many fond memories of being in a Bug.

]]> By: andrea http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9487 andrea Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:28:30 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2007/06/20/trees-part-2/#comment-9487 When I was a kid, a big tree fell on both our cars. They were a Volkswagen Camper Van and a Volkswagen Bug, the latter shipped back from Europe after my parents' trip there the year before I was born. As I remember my parents pretended at least one of the cars was still viable for awhile after that (if you knew my parents this would not surprise you!), but it really was pretty much the end of Volkswagens for us. I think it was the end for that tree as well, though this was a forest so it wasn't all that sad, just a normal part of life in the woods. The tree was an oak, I think, one of dozens of kinds of oaks in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Many other trees also, and since my parents were biology and science teachers, I knew them all. There are so many oaks that you can hardly go out the door without stepping on a squirrel--okay, maybe just an acorn. But squirrels were so ubiquitous that it was really funny when we had an exchange student from Austria. Not many squirrels in Europe, in fact they have special national parks that are designated "Squirrel Reserves," so the whole first month she was with us, Eva would scream out in excitement every time she saw a squirrel. My sister and I, of course, as jaded youth, thought she was nuts (pun claimed, though originally intended). -Andrea When I was a kid, a big tree fell on both our cars. They were a Volkswagen Camper Van and a Volkswagen Bug, the latter shipped back from Europe after my parents’ trip there the year before I was born. As I remember my parents pretended at least one of the cars was still viable for awhile after that (if you knew my parents this would not surprise you!), but it really was pretty much the end of Volkswagens for us. I think it was the end for that tree as well, though this was a forest so it wasn’t all that sad, just a normal part of life in the woods. The tree was an oak, I think, one of dozens of kinds of oaks in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Many other trees also, and since my parents were biology and science teachers, I knew them all. There are so many oaks that you can hardly go out the door without stepping on a squirrel–okay, maybe just an acorn. But squirrels were so ubiquitous that it was really funny when we had an exchange student from Austria. Not many squirrels in Europe, in fact they have special national parks that are designated “Squirrel Reserves,” so the whole first month she was with us, Eva would scream out in excitement every time she saw a squirrel. My sister and I, of course, as jaded youth, thought she was nuts (pun claimed, though originally intended).
-Andrea

]]> By: helg http://savvythinker.com/trees-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-9300 helg Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:20:49 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2007/06/20/trees-part-2/#comment-9300 No interesting tree stories, but I enjoyed your post a lot. I kinda prefer trees to flowers: they seem like a primeal force of life and full of their own character. Their circle of life is amazing to behold. No interesting tree stories, but I enjoyed your post a lot.
I kinda prefer trees to flowers: they seem like a primeal force of life and full of their own character. Their circle of life is amazing to behold.

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