The other day, I was weeding my
little herb garden, and I noticed a huge nail eating my herbs! I
immediately took him out and put him on one of our flagstone pavers.
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| The little guy. FYI, I'm pretty sure the dark stuff is his poo. |
He looked pretty old because his shell was all worn and broken in some areas. He must have had a hard snail life.
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| Figuring out his new world out of the herb garden. |
I grabbed
my camera because he looked pretty cool. We had our little photo shoot, he
slimed away into the grass, and I started playing ball with my dog, Reeses.
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| Does he have eyes, or just antennae that sense his environment? |
Well, um, lets just say I forgot where he was. I stepped on him, not with all
of my weight, and I immediately pulled my foot off.
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| Almost to safety, right? NOT. |
I inspected him, and he
looked intact.
But I guess he wasn’t, because I found his shell in the same
place two days later.
Oh well.
I try to appreciate nature, and look what I did!
Anyone else done anything like that?
Song of the Post: Girl Next Door by Saving Jane. The band is from Ohio and I was living there when the song
was on the radio. A few years later, Taylor Swift’s song You Belong With Me had a very
similar theme. Sometimes, Saving Jane would perform their song as a mash-up with Taylor Swift's because they were so similar.
On merit alone, ignoring that Taylor is now a mega star, which
song do you like best for the "girl next door theme"?
And for fun, I stumbled on the hilarious video of Taylor Swift performing the song with a Japanese singing group. Funny and unexpected.
8 comments:
I get so many snails in my garden in winter, just after the rains! I so hate them, so I just grab them and throw them into the rubbish bin or if we have beer I put a dish with beer by the garden beds and they drown in it. It´s cruel I suppose but they are yukki to me!
No, I've never murdered a snail!
Wow! Those pictures came out so clear! I'm sorry that the little guy didn't make it - maybe you'll find other interesting things whilst gardening :) (I've never found anything that exciting in my balcony garden!)
PS thanks for offering your hubby's skills with the stats, I think I'm doing okay for the moment. Plus one of my supervisors is a demographer!
Wow really cool pictures. I don't really see many snails around here... plenty of nasty centipedes though, ugh.
I remember when that Saving Jane song used to get played on the radio all of the time in OH. :-) I definitely prefer the Saving Jane song to the Taylor Swift one. Taylor Swift makes some great music, but this isn't one of my favorites from her.
Poor chap! I haven't seen many live ones though I have seen plenty of empty shells.
hey lovely, I hope you post some stories again soon :) xoxox
I see snails all over the sidewalk when I walk to yoga in the morning, and I always try to avoid stepping on them, but sometimes... :(
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