LVSteve
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There's places in Nevada where two tumbleweeds and a burro constitute a traffic jam. Can't imagine a whole mobile hedgerow like that.
Don't You Hate When This Happens.
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Looks like a fire hazard. One spark..and Woof!
snowman
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Sure. All they ask is that we carefully pull the vines off all those trees and bushes by hand so as to avoid damaging them prior to shipment.
I lived in SC 3 yrs. or so -what a tangled up mess
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bigwheelzip
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The bums stole that idea from us.
Christmas 1989 or 90, we got some small scale strings of decorations and some small ornaments, hung them on a tumbleweed, sprayed it with a can of spray snow, and mailed it to my inlaws in NY.
They had never seen a tumbleweed, and said they loved it.
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Every fall on windy days, we would take pitch forks and pull those out of miles of North-South barb wire fences and throw them into the next pasture.. Next day we'd do the same again at the next fence until we threw them into a neighbor's pasture.. He'd do the same until they got to Nebraska or somewhere.
If we didn't clear them out, snow would drift into them and the weight of the weeds and snow would flatten the fences.
You think black powder burns hot, just watch a pile of those rascals explode in a fire.
Some of the compressed fire place logs are made of those things.. Nasty at best.
If we didn't clear them out, snow would drift into them and the weight of the weeds and snow would flatten the fences.
You think black powder burns hot, just watch a pile of those rascals explode in a fire.
Some of the compressed fire place logs are made of those things.. Nasty at best.
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Ole Joe Clark
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SC_Mike
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What's the best caliber for a tumble weed?
Hey, somebody had to ask.
Speaking of the cartoon, Tumbleweed:
Hey, somebody had to ask.
Speaking of the cartoon, Tumbleweed:
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ancient-one
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I had a nearly new car and was traveling to Hobbs NM. Between Lubbock and Hobbs I encountered very high winds. You could dodge most of the tumbleweeds but the sand-blasting did a number on the car.
A couple of Tumbleweeds attacked me at a car wash in Ridgecrest CA those things will hurt you
Mistered
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'Cry Of Silence'
Great episode with Eddie Albert and Arthur Hunnicutt.
Well, I'll be.... I had no idea such an episode actually existed; just seemed a likely plot.
The Wikipedia article listing of the actors also led to another link that said that the sister of the female lead, June Havoc, was Gypsy Rose Lee.
Ole Joe Clark is right- you do learn something every day here. How the heck did we ever learn anything before we had this interweb thing?
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bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
That is hysterical!Good grief...
Thanks, bigwheelzip, you've started a nightmare...
The trailer may not be at Hitchcock standards, but it's a hoot.
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carpriver
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In December 1969 We were stationed at Clinton-Sherman AFB Ok. I was a young E-3 A1/C living in base housing; we were broke most of the time and could not afford a Christmas tree. A tumble weed blew up against the patio window. It became our Christmas tree, paper chains and what ever we could find. I was a good Christmas, just the two of us.
If that started as one of the monster 15' ones around Richland, I'm buying one of those treadmills.During the lulls:
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