Quote from: Solar on October 24, 2015, 08:19:44 AM

Blame the dog. Hey, it never fails.Ugggh, I know your misery, been there done that over the decades, first as a dehydrated kid looking at the shortest distance across a saflower field to get water. I had no idea they had thorns and so much sticky sap.
It started out as ankle high, and hit 3' in the middle of a half mile crossing.

Then one day fishing from a raft on a slough, we hadn't noticed we drifted at least a quarter mile or more, so we paddled to shore covered in black berries, struggled through thorns to the top of the levee, all bloody by this point, only to discover the road turned way back crossing the farm field.
Desperate, treading back to the slough, only to discover the flimsy wooden raft drifted on.
Possibly one of the worst in the top 100 days in my life., scratched beyond belief, hundreds of thorns still in our skin and we had to swim in that nasty slough water with less the 2" of visibility.

We got back to our original launch site and spent the next two hours picking leeches off each other.
We didn't have a dog to blame for our own stupidity, though we never really told anyone about it either, considering.

Yeah.....  they come off your back & legs pretty easily and painless.  It's those other body parts where the tender sensitive skin is , you'd swear they have fish hooks dug into ya!   

Quote from: Hoofer on October 24, 2015, 06:16:04 PM
Yeah.....  they come off your back & legs pretty easily and painless.  It's those other body parts where the tender sensitive skin is , you'd swear they have fish hooks dug into ya!   

Yep
Between the thorns, leeches and skeeters, I looked like I'd been skinned alive and bled a quart dry.
Thank God I was young at the time. Did I metion stupid as well?

Quote from: Solar on October 24, 2015, 06:57:54 PM
Yep
Between the thorns, leeches and skeeters, I looked like I'd been skinned alive and bled a quart dry.
Thank God I was young at the time. Did I metion stupid as well?

Something's don't get much better with age.  Why are all the big blackberry always on the very top. 

Quote from: walkstall on October 24, 2015, 07:45:04 PM


Something's don't get much better with age.  Why are all the big blackberry always on the very top. 

Isn't that the truth?
I just drive my tractor to the middle and just sit and eat.

Quote from: Solar on October 24, 2015, 07:50:21 PM


Isn't that the truth?
I just drive my tractor to the middle and just sit and eat.

My neighbor has a old cherry picker mounted on the back of one of his maintenance trucks.  For the last two year I have been able to use it when there not using it.  On a good day I can get about 5gal using it, if I did not eat so many.   

Quote from: walkstall on October 24, 2015, 08:06:46 PM
My neighbor has a old cherry picker mounted on the back of one of his maintenance trucks.  For the last two year I have been able to use it when there not using it.  On a good day I can get about 5gal using it, if I did not eat so many.   

That's always been my problem, I can't fill anything bigger than my hand before I eat them all.