Bag worms |
You can see from the picture that they build a "bag" and eat all the leaves off of the plant and you can see a gazillion worms inside the bag. I can remember as a small boy going out to the pecan orchard at the farm and there would be infestations of bag worms. My grandfather would take newspapers and tie them onto the end of a long cane pole, set the newspaper on fire and lift it up and burn the bag worms. If left unchecked, they'll defoliate a tree.
A neighbor then called me over to inspect a bunch of catfish he caught on the intracoastal last night. He made "jug-lines" and baited them and caught some nice fish. As I was admiring the fish, a good friend showed up with a chainsaw and offered to help me cut up a large pecan limb that had fallen out of a tree in the front yard. In no time, we had it cut up, loaded and moved to the back.
Getting ready to cut up the limb |
Lumberjacks at work |
Almost done! |
Speaking of BBQ, we fired up the grill and put a nice steak and one of our fresh chickens on the pit.
Seasoned up home-grown chicken |
Time to eat! |
Jalapeno peppers ready for picking |
And then put them in a cast iron skillet with a little bit of oil and let them heat up. Something about heating them up gives them a mild, almost sweet flavor. Russ and I ate them all right out of the skillet and ended up making another batch!
We had a productive day and even got a lot of gardening done. Let's discuss that tomorrow. Good night!
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