Posted on 05/02/2011 7:25:30 PM PDT by blam
They’re not just attractive, they’re wonderful.
Many books have been written about them.
Here’s one:
http://www.amazon.com/Sermons-Stone-Walls-England-York/dp/039331202X/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Here’s another:
http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Magnificent-History-Englands-Walls/dp/0802776876/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
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This sounds like the Yellow Flies down here on the Gulf Coast. They are attracted by movement and I've seen people tie balloons (with heavy plastic) and a strong 'stick'um' lathered on the surface of the balloons.
When the wind moves the balloons the flies attack it and are captured by the stick'um. All the balloons I"ve ever seen were black, I don't know the signifance of that fact.
Upper Michigan has a bad deer fly season. I asked a local how they delt with it, suprise, he said the natives put vicks vaporub on their forehead, back of the neck, under the nose etc. The vapor keeps the flies away....vicks under the nose also lets you get close enought to a dead carcus ie: deer on your property to be able to shovel quick lime on it to stop the smell as it decomposed..I have used it and it works to rid the gagging odor of death...
Interesting.
And just what is interesting about it?
http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/bzrecap.htm
The diversity of thought is interesting. I applaud that - with one hand clapping.
Deer flies back home in eastern NC sharpen their beaks with hatches before attacking humans.
I read somewhere that one species can fly over eighty miles an hour. Had one chase me on a motorcycle once—and keep up. (How he got on a motorcycle, I’ll never know.)
Oh, and I forgot. Another Freeper pinged me with a couple of books about New England stone fences. Check out post 161 on this same thread. I’ve put these books on my reading list for the summer.
Thanks for the book reccomends. I’ve put these two on my summer reading list, and have pointed them out to a couple of other Freepers who’ve asked me about the subject.
One morning I swatted a deer fly in my pajamas....
Are you one of those Freepers who follows me around when I post? I don’t recognize your name.
I’ve got a set of wacky groupies who are generally too shy to post. They generally watch with amusement as the monkeys shake the bars at me and throw poop.
There are a bunch of small towns that are surrounded by farm land and that is about the best place to be if it all goes south.
“Live Free or Die....as long as you live the way we want you to.”
Could you possibly expand what you mean by that?
I’ve checked my spreadsheet & it’s almost totally true.
Apart from Newmarket which has 0.58 pub registrations for every dem, portsmouth with 0.48, and a few close calls at 0.9 for Hampton, 0.95 for Newton, 0.91 for Exeter, 0.98 Salem, 0.96 Seabrook. Every other town is in the red.
Most red is Hampton Falls at 2.26 then Chester at 2.13
Newmarket is too close to Durham. Portsmouth will be Portsmouth. Rock District 4 which includes Salem and Windham has 13 reps, all Republican.
I found the people of New Hampshire to be rigid and unable to see a different point of view. They had their way of doing stuff—read everything—and if you tried to introduce a different way of doing anything there was significant resistance.
I ran a customer service department and they were so unable to understand why the customers might expect us to bend a rule, or make an exception, that eventually we closed down the center and moved it elsewhere in New England.
They are not stupid. They are not nasty. I just found them to be rigid in their ways. While that might be charming from afar, it was maddening when you were losing customers.
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