Title: "The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his
integrity
All this talk of spiders and snakes makes
me not feel so bad about being in Michigan
with all of our mosquitos! Along with all the turkeys and pheasants right
now you need to be careful of all the fawns that are lying in the grass and
spring up as you come flying by. I’ve had my horse bolt several
times lately when the little ones pop up and run off. They sure are cute
though.
Wendy
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Truman Prevatt Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:18
AM To: Ride Camp Subject: Re: [RC] spider web face
Down here you want to ride in the woods in the summer
- it's too hot when the sun is directly overhead in the summer. From about Aug
through mid Sept the banana spiders (some wolf spiders also but mostly banana)
build their nest across the trails - probably a good place to catch flying
insects. There webs are really sticky. The females are carrying eggs at that
time of the year on the end of their bodies and the eggs are a bright yellow in
color. They look like a small banana. But you can't miss them - come
around a corner and bang you are eye-ball-to-eye ball with them. I always carry
a crop so I can at least cut one end of the web before I go blasting through
and have one on the end of my nose.
If I see them in time, I'll duck so I don't distrube the web and let the person
behind me worry about it. I've had them on my neck, shoulder, hanging off my
helmet in my face, on my horse, etc. and never been bitten. The next morning
there will be a web back up across the trail - within feet of the last one. By mid
Oct. they are usually gone. But it sure can be exciting to ride with the
spiders.
I'd much rather ride with the spiders than come around a turn and have a wild
turkey fly up in my face or after the other day come around a turn and have a
rogue inflated car intertube in the trail - talk about horse killers and taking
flight ;-).
Truman
Laurie Underwood wrote:
Apparently there are advantages to riding the slower horse!
Laurie Underwood
--
"The person of superior integrity does not insist
upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity. The person
of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity. For
this reason, he lacks integrity."
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