Re: Re****t From The Garden...."Cap'n Thar Be Worms Here!"

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<b2forewagner-E1B16B.11383002052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Bill <b2forewagner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <ompomelet-E32F57.09465802052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > In article <p5gk1419v08guqnum1cnuetigskt0flhvj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Charlie
wrote:
> > 
> > > I was amazed at the number of earthworms I saw!  There were easily
> > > several dozen in each hole I dug for the transplants, several adult
> > > worms and many small worms.  This soil improvement business *is*
what
> > > it is cracked up to be.
> > 
> > It is indeed. :-)
> > Anywhere where there is a high manure content, the soil is rich with 
> > worm castings in the morning.
> > 
> > I can gather fish bait by putting down a piece of old carpet and
keeping 
> > it wet anywhere there is fertile soil.
> 
>  We have a school yard about 3 miles from our house.  Very sandy loam 
> with a special attribute.  The place is loaded with night crawlers.  My 
> Dad once again had me out on Rainy nights to catch them.
> 
>  The How maybe of interest.
> 
>  Drive two copper stakes in the ground about ten feet apart. 
> Attach a wire to each and have switch inline this hooked up to a car 
> battery.  Drives em right up to the surface.  Good bait and good for our

> garden. 

Shocking. ;-)
 

> This maybe considered dangerous today but I'd guess walking 
> about on thin Ice in freezing  looking at stakes you planted to mark 
> underwater foot bridges would be too.  Aside some of those stakes turned

> into trees in time.

I read something recently in a survival article about "drumming" worms 
up. Pound a 1" thick stake into the ground and vibrate it by running a 
piece of wood over the top.  The vibrations are supposed to drive them 
up.
 
> 
>  Bill whose Dad had me gigging for frogs with a flash light and a club 
> with water up to my chest also had me trapping rats (Muskrats when I was

> 8..  Ah 30 cents for a black pelt bought by Sears. 50 years ago)  Yup 
> Sears.
>  Still remember a vacation in 1955 when my Dad disappeared one night and

> the next morning the icebox had 60 large frogs moving slow.
> 
>  Dad BTW is 84 and was a Marine gunner on the USS Biloxi  ww2.  Taught 
> me  how to shoot.

Sounds  like you had an educational childhood.

I have to wonder how many kids nowadays are being taught survival skills.
I am at least confident that, while I may not be happy or comfortable, I 
could manage to live off of the land.

I'd want to at least have a knife tho'. <g> There is enough flint around 
here, I could probably make one if I had to.
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Peace! Om

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