A Princess in the Woods!

What?! I was only gone a couple of days, sheesh. I had to regroup, I actually had to work yesterday. Have to work today too, but thought I would do a quickie here!

On Saturday, The Man and I went out into the woods. He and The Hunter were going to laser out a drive lane thru the woods. Funny how you have been in the woods when you are young, tromped around and still you have stuff to learn as an adult.

I was shown the difference between a fresh deer track and a few days old track. Go figure. I saw the outline of a possum tail in the muck. I saw what they call a "widow maker" tree.
Oh, BTW, Birkenstocks are NOT good to walk thru the woods with. I lost my shoes more times than I care to talk about, I got mud caked on my shoes, and that sucking noise is NOT a good sound when you lift your foot up. My poor feet were killing me by the time we were done just from struggling to keep those shoes on my feet. My toes went into overtime, hanging off the front and gripping on! Yes, I had socks on, but they are now in the trash. I doubt any amount of bleach will get that black muck off of them. *sigh*
Anyway, I was intrigued by the turkey vultures, which The Man and The Hunter could care less about. We cooked over a fire, and they threw the scraps out in the swamp. Those vultures were circling pretty good and I was excited thinking that they were going to land and have THEIR lunch as well. The Man just kept saying I wouldn’t like it if they did, they are ugly and they vomit on you if you threaten them. Yea, well any more walking and I would have vomited too, so we would have something in common there!
The Man pointed out a tree that had some interesting aspects about it. He calls it the sex tree. I’m not going to try to explain it, I think the picture does that for me!!!
I will be buying some tennis shoes and/or muck boots this weekend so that when we head back out there, I won’t have to struggle with my Birks, and I won’t lose them in the muck and have to leave one or both behind!