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Roadtrip... Soapweed....

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katrina

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Saturday I traveled through Soapweed's country and I have a question:
North going into Cal's country there is a stretch of road that on both sides are tons of soapweeds..... More than I have ever seen....... Why???
 
My guess is that the soil, climate, precipitation, pH and all that are ideal or perfect for the plant to grow in and thrive to a large population.
 
katrina,

You may have driven past our place north of Merriman. If so, some of those soapweeds were ours! Along the north edge of the sandhills, it is very sandy and choppy hills. It is so rough in places that a pickup cannot be driven through it.

That my friends is soapweed country. Not that our friend "Soapweed" would necessarily claim it, but rather, where they grow profusely. I can't think of any particular benefit to them other than they probably hold the sand from blowing.

It has been discussed on here, that cattle will eat soapweeds. We used to make them "grub" them many years ago. If you fed your cows cottonseed cake, it was supposed to make them really go after them. Our cows don't eat them today. I think it's because we keep them in better shape than 20-30 years ago and don't let them get hungry enough to be forced to eat them.

I couldn't tell much of a difference in the soapweed population after making the cows eat them. It may have stunted them some, but they are just as thick now as they ever were.
 
Thanks JF....... Oh yeah, buy the way nice international tractor... You don't wave??
I thought maybe this was blow ground years ago causing all the soapweeds. Just never seen so many........
 
That wasn't me in the CASE-IH tractor. Our full time employee runs those. Being happily married, he probably thought you were flirting with him and didn't want to encourage a pretty young lady by waving back!

Seriously, since we live and work along a hiway that gets more traffic every year, we get sorta numb to it and don't pay as much attention to it any more. 'Makes us look unfriendly. Sorry!
 
katrina, we had this huge 9 course feast all made up for you guys and you didn't even show up!! :evil: :wink: Kidding... So how'd the wrestling go? We would have liked to come in and watched but had some other business to tend to.
 
Yeah right..... You call it other buisness??? Hanky panky with the wife!! :D :D
Wrestling was good... We came out with some pride. C placed fourth... Didn't let the her many horses kid pin him... Was the only kid he didn't pin. I think we had 60 or 70 points at the end and was in 8th place... Not bad for ten jv kids..... Always fun to wrestle those rapid city kids..... We wittnessed some funky stuff from the hillcity gang....
 
katrina said:
To funny............ But it's way to dang cold to subject anything to the outside air........
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Katrina- its sure a good thing you are good natured, since you seem to always be the "butt" of all the jokes... :wink: :lol: :P
 
Well....we keep hearin how you northern folks will take moisture in any form....hopin for snow for spring grass n such.....WHAT ??? No runnin to the barn nekid tryin to make it snow????? come on give it a try LOL
 
NR wrote:
Katrina you haven't lived till you've 'christened' a skidoo-I hope not too many Canadian ladies blush when they read this lol
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So I have no clue to what this means.......Remember I'm the one who didn't know what it meant to " GO COMMANDO"


Is this like the mile high club???
 
katrina said:
Yeah right..... You call it other buisness??? Hanky panky with the wife!! :D :D
Wrestling was good... We came out with some pride. C placed fourth... Didn't let the her many horses kid pin him... Was the only kid he didn't pin. I think we had 60 or 70 points at the end and was in 8th place... Not bad for ten jv kids..... Always fun to wrestle those rapid city kids..... We wittnessed some funky stuff from the hillcity gang....
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Yer a hooot....so what kind of funky stuff was going on...spill the beans!
 
I'm still trying to figure it out....... Some jackie chan x old ladies toe hold. I've never seen it before...Was worned once for kicking at C. You missed a good time and I had something for ya too..... But tooo bad, you wouldn't come to town......
 

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