Tumbleweed!!
 

Hey, maybe there's hope for me yet, to be a contributing member of society.:p

You should have collected some of these while out west, AMA and FFM.

See this for some inspiration..:D

http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/55334/rolling-in-cash

OMG - ROFL

I have tons of tumbleweeds out here, I wonder how much I can get for them.

I just about fell out of my chair when NASA was mentioned - oh Tom where are you :p

Really, what are people thinking :Ponder:

You know Snoopy, I was thinking the same thing. They are on the noxious weed list here in Idaho. I have them stacked up against my back fence. Shall we go into business? Wonder how she ships them?

Hey, you guys, maybe open an organic bowling alley?:o I saw a lot of them in MT too, must be a conspiracy.

LOL! Works well until the wind blows! :p

Now, that was one smart and lucky lady!

Yep, same here, they get stacked up long the fence, along the house and in and under bushes - they are a royal pain in the butt.

They fly across the road and as much as I like my car I'm not willing to get into an accident trying to avoid one - I have seen many people come close to an accident or losing control just to avoid hitting them.

Cheryl, I think the video said she puts them into boxes and ships them.

What I can't figger out is, why anyone would want them???? We work so hard to keep weeds out of our yards and gardens.:confused:

Of course, why do we love our slinkys?? ..But we do..:D . We are strange collectors, tis' true..LOL:D

Hi guys.....shipping info here... probably not that heavy...but large boxes,,,so check pricing on usps.com :):)

shipping
 

Well duh!! What have I been doing for the past 22 years??? I cannot even :grouphug: finish my train of thought anymore!! :mad: How annoying. sorry guys.:rolleyes: the buyer pays shipping, and if you use clicknship THEN you can have the carrier come and pick up the packages from your door!!!
woo hoo!!!
:grouphug:

Ok...Once I had to work down in SW Texas and I drove a bunch of equipment down alone. I was on one of those farm roads they have in TX, just a number and a long straight small road, and I saw a tumbleweed spinning down the road in front of me...and I chased it down and tossed it in the back of the truck.

I brought it all the way back home to Maine, spray painted it white and I had it for years!! It sat in the corner of my living room for a very long time and was a great conversation piece for all us Mainahs, most of whom had never see none of them thangs before!


Cue laughter now...:o


You'd be laughing harder if I told you about the Texas dinosaur...:p

LOL!!! I wanna hear about the Texas dinosaur.:eek:

Riverwild
 

OMG - you just made me spit my drink all over the computer :ROTFLMAO::ROTFLMAO:

That is just priceless ;)

Okay, I'm sure this is really a dumb question but what the heck - Did spray painting it keep it from coming a part :o

No Silly:p Spray painting made it look nice and clean and white! I put Christmas lights on it, everyone kept asking me "WTF IS that thing?" and I would start laughing and tell them the story of chasin' down the tumbleweed. They would go examine it in great detail and say how it looked NOTHING like a "real" tumbleweed, like they have in the movies...( some of my friends are a leetle slow)

Sal? The dinosaur story...

so here I was driving along on some other unnamed road in SW Texas ( there's a lot of them down there) and I am running through what to a New Englander looks like sand dunes.

All of a sudden I see what appears to be a head come up over a dune and look at me ( alone on this road in my pickup full of river gear) and then duck behind the dune again... and I almost drove off that road. I ended up slamming the brakes on and stopping cause I thought I was losing my mind. I KNOW it was a dinosaur!! :eek:

So I watched and sure enough...there it was again!! OMG...a dinosaur in the wilds of SW Texas!!! Being as brave as I am, I get out and sneak up on it to take a picture next time it pops it's head up...I crouch behind what may have been an attached tumbleweed ( one that isn't tumbling yet?) and I wait...and up the head comes again...and down it goes...

I run to the top of that dune and start snapping pics as fast as I can...and then I realize...






It's an oil rig thing...:cool:

LMAO! Someone had painted their oil rig thingy with eyes and a mouth and I SWEAR to you, it looked just like a dinosaur!!

( i am such a greenhorn sometimes!):p :ROTFLMAO:

*grabbing RW'S coffee cup and taking a whiff!!* Hmmmm~ Bailey's or Kahlua???:winky::rolleyes:

LOL, RW....I'd have been right witcha Kid....sheesh.:eek:

DM is right.....stay away from that strong coffee..:p

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rw's special brew. :p

Good stories RW!

Good stories!

HEY NOW!

I am from New England! We don't have those dinosaur looking oil rig pumps here! I swear I NEVER saw anything like it til I got to Texas, and they have them in their back yards!!

( no trees, no grass but by gawd, they got them wicked funny lookin' oil rigs in their yahds!:eek: )

yes we do. and dang proud of them too.:p we have free tumbleweeds too.

Rollin' laughing here!!

As I traveled as a part of my river guide job, I learned a lot about interacting with all kinds of folks, young, old, some geniuses and some not so with it. I learned to be polite and never let my face show what I was really thinking since my tips depended on being all things to all people and getting them to work together as a team.

Southwest Texas was one of my favorite places in this country. It was so different from Maine and New England, the people have a whole 'nother mind set down there. I used to love sitting down and talking to folks down there. When we got so we could understand what each other was saying, after the accents and all, we got to ask about each other and find out what makes us tick.

So, here I was one time in a little restaurant in Marathon Texas...way down near the border. Not much there but a railroad and a main street. Lots of men-geologists and railroad workers, ranch hands and oil workers, but all in all a pretty quiet place.

Now me being a 6'2 woman with a pickup truck with Maine plates, four canoes, two mountain bikes, a bed full of coolers and buckets and lifejackets and such, I kind of attracted a lot of attention.:eek:

I tried to ignore it, but figured if they were gonna look, there was nothing I could do about it so I may as well enjoy it, but keep my knife close, if you know what I mean.

So I get into this town and I start looking for something to eat, it being late afternoon and me wanting more than chips and soda. I had a room at a little motor court type place all reserved in advance, so I checked it out but drove by in case they rolled the sidewalks up early...

I spot ONE restaurant with it's lights on, everything looks sort of ready to close, so I drive over and park right out front and run in there before they lock the door...

There's 4-5 older men at the counter, farmer jean overalls, t shirts, feed store caps...you can picture it...all sitting at the counter in a row.

The waitress tells me to sit anywhere, so I sit at a table up close so she won't have to walk far. I read the menu, pick out what I want, place my order and read everything at the table cause those men are all staring at me and whispering...:rolleyes:

I'm eating my EXCELLENT steak and one of them gets up and walks over and stands next to my table... and proceeds to introduce himself and asks me if I mind if he asks me a question or two. I said not if you don't mind me eating while you do it...:)

He says, "Y'all aren't from around here Ma'am, are you?" "No Sir, I am not" :Are Y'all mewnisipull?" ( i figured that out later-municipal= road crew) "Nope, I'm from up north"

"Y'all from up north ma'am?" "yup, Maine to be exact" "And that's yer pickup out there?" "it is"

"Well Ma'am...can Y'all tell me something?...what's that on the front of yer pickup?"

I almost fell outta the chair. I have an 89 Ford pickup with head gear on it for my snowplow. It's the old style, where the head gear stays on the truck, only the blade comes off in the summer.

Realizing that they probably never saw one, and mindful of my own idiocy when I saw the dinosaur, I told him what it was...head gear for my plow.


He touches the bill of his feed cap and thanks me and goes back and sits down...and they all start whispering again, and looking at me, and looking out the window at my truck...and the man gets up and comes back to my table. By this time I am done and ready to go pay and leave. He steps up and clears his throat and says..."Ma'am? Y'all mind if I ask you just ONE more question?" Go ahead Sir..smiling.

"Ma'am?...Up there in Maine? Y'all plow yer fields with YER pickups?????"


I LOST IT!!! I LAUGHED SO HARD I ALMOST WET MYSELF:eek:


I told him...( when I caught my breath) "I am sorry I laughed, you just took me by surprise! We plow our SNOW with our pickups. We use regular plows in our fields, just like everyone else. It's a SNOWPLOW rig!!!" "Ma'am? Y'all mind if we look at it?" like a hopeful little kid wanting to touch my bike!!

Those men came outside, looked it all over and under, asked me if I could open the hood, climbed in to see how we steer and put the plow up and down, how it was rigged up for directing the plow, eyeballed all the hydraulics and such and clapped each other on their backs and shook my hand repeatedly. It made their day!

The next day I am going to finish getting the supplies I needed to do the trip on the Rio Grande and EVERYONE in town is waving at me!!! I get to the store and they come right over cause they heard I was from Maine and I might have a hard time finding what I want, so they are gonna help me!!!

It all turned out to be a lot of fun and I met some great people but I hafta tell ya, I still laugh when I think about that day!


I love Texas!!!:)

(ps- they bought me breakfast the next morning! Same place!)

ROFLOL!!!!!! Still LMAO! :D :ROTFLMAO: :ROTFLMAO: :trampoline: :You-Rock:

Uh, ma'am? Oh man! I can barely type!!!!!:D:D:D

DITTO!!!!!

That story made my day RW...Thanks.:D

Wow River! What adventures! :D

First of all~~~What were you all doing up so late????

RW~~ You crack me up! I'd have been petrified. Anytime I'm alone, esp at night, which is hardly ever; I hear the banjo and guitar playing from Deliverance...:Bawling:

Oh lordy!!

I am laughing sooo hard here now! This story telling has got me remembering some stuff that I haven't thought about for years!!!

Someday when I have more time I will tell ya all the story about the cow and the bike! I actually did wet myself laughing after that one!!:p

BTW AMN...SMACK!!!!

(mutteringtomyselfaboutpeoplehittingme)