05-19-2013, 03:08 PM
[#0000FF]Sounds like you have a case of "puncture vine"...grows along the ground and leaves the multi pointed seed husks when dead and dried. Nasty. Not good for puppy feets or bike tires neither.
Got lots of cactus "tails". Best one is when TubeBabe and I were working up the side of a hill near a busy road...to get some pics of an unusually shaped saguaro. (I used to put on slide shows for winter visitors of the desert flora and fauna.) My wife suddenly hit high C and my first thought was "SNAKE". She hates 'em. But when I spun around to see the cause of the shriek I saw her sporting a big chunk of cholla spines...firmly embedded in her behind. Too much swing and sway on the trail I guess.
Anyhooters, I used my always present tongs and hemostats to carefully pull away the cactus lobe. But it left behind a few remnant spines. So right up there on the hill...in view of passing vehicles...she had to drop trou so that I could pluck them one by one from her tender tush. Pardon the pun but she was really em-bare-assed. And she didn't do a lot of sitting for a couple of days.
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Got lots of cactus "tails". Best one is when TubeBabe and I were working up the side of a hill near a busy road...to get some pics of an unusually shaped saguaro. (I used to put on slide shows for winter visitors of the desert flora and fauna.) My wife suddenly hit high C and my first thought was "SNAKE". She hates 'em. But when I spun around to see the cause of the shriek I saw her sporting a big chunk of cholla spines...firmly embedded in her behind. Too much swing and sway on the trail I guess.
Anyhooters, I used my always present tongs and hemostats to carefully pull away the cactus lobe. But it left behind a few remnant spines. So right up there on the hill...in view of passing vehicles...she had to drop trou so that I could pluck them one by one from her tender tush. Pardon the pun but she was really em-bare-assed. And she didn't do a lot of sitting for a couple of days.
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