Weed eating Goat June 18 2006
Sure been awhile since I got my article in Mountain News. I have got into so much these days that I live on a computer. That can be good for you if you like writng, playing music and just plain talking with others. Still I am going to make myself go back outside and just take a walk in the woods and be alone to find myself again. Just yesterday my entire website at ohnapier.com was entirely deleted and about a years work gone. That was bad and makes you want to quit but I will survive and find out why it happened.
I remember the days so well when all I done was get up go get me some beer and just take off with my dogs out running around. I was sure happy then. I mean the hangovers were rough but time I drank three or four I was ready for the day. I never though about a computer as I would go see my friends in the community many times staying the night or weekend. Even I have stayed alone in the woods days at a time. There was so much to see as I would watch the wind blow the tree limbs and the leaves would turn up on their side and change colors. You could actually watch things grow like the weeds. I had one favorite kind of weed I loved to watch grow. Being as I got a green thumb from my grandma and the weed I grew it did not take an expert as just a good patch of ground with the right kind of dirt and you had it made. I even tried to grow it in pine trees but that never worked to good as there was too much work involved. Then I come up with an idea as not to have to pack so much water to my weeds as a gallon milk jug full of water weighs 8 pounds and folk that gets heavy about four of them at one time packing through the hills. I dug a big hole under my weed plant and buried my grandma's diapers down in the ground and put the plant on top of it. Now folks that was a great invention as the diaper held the water for weeks and I have to say that was one of my better inventions for growing my favorite weed. There was always enemies that loved my weed plants as good as I did. I have tried every thing in the world on then cut worms. That powder at true value helped but it was a sick feeling to see them one day growing perfect and the very next morning the top would be laying over while the plant would still be standing. When you tried to straighten the top the whole plant would come out of the ground as it would be cut slick into by a cut worm. That was bad. Also the wild animals was bad. I have used everything form womens perfume as my x wife would ask me if I was using her perfume as I always was smelling like it or it was magically disapearing. That worked some but the best thing I found was letting my dogs lay on some old clothes and get them real smelly of dogs and plenty hair on them. I would tear the old clothes up into pieces and scatter them all around and inside my patch and that worked pretty good. Now my biggest problem was named Judy. A damn goat that I paid Vance Trent $25 for. I loved that thing but I finally let her go as Gary Hollen bought her from me after she destoryed me. One day that goat was worth a $1000 easy. I never sold my weed but I growed it so I didn't have to buy it. Anyway it was all about money and I loved my weed. Well one day Judy was real happy head butten the dogs and chasen them and going on. Well I walked on around the hill and there stood my weed stripped. She left the stem and a little on top as that was high as she could reach. The very next day I sold her to Mr. Hollan and come to find out she died with the stomach fever. Reckon it could have been the weed. Anyway I told him about her problem. Hell she also liked to eat my long johns also when I would lay them out on top of the car to dry. Well anyay my kids just dropped in for Father's day. Got to run and see them as I don't get to see them much but that is soon going to change. See you Guys next time. Check out my new music page and hear some Acoustic county music at http://soundclick.com/ohnapier
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