"KLC Lewis" wrote in
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And "Palmetto Bugs," and the wonderful smell of that paper mill...

God, how I miss it... lol


One needs to spend the night on an unairconditioned ketch in August at the
little marina just north of Ponce Inlet, Florida, finding out by midnight
why they call it "Mosquito Bay" to appreciate how much one would trade a
thousand Palmetto Bugs for only 100 Florida mosquitoes.....(c;

Been there, done that, never again. Ended up sleeping on a table in the
marina lounge....

As to the paper mill, I'm sorry to say sailors will not be sniffing the air
coming home from the Med to sense Charleston's presence by the smell of
black liquor any more. Millions of dollars in pollution control equipment
were forced upon poor Westvaco's brown paper plant as the new Mark Clark
Expressway bridge over the Cooper River was completed so the drivers
wouldn't be asphixiated from the fumes of cooking wood. Even Mt Pleasant,
home of lawyers and doctors and other vermin, cannot smell the plant's
peculiar fragrance unless staring down on it from the bridge. Those days,
just like Koppers' creosote plant or the fertilizer plants is over. Hell,
Charleston rates as one of the cleanest air places in the country, now!

Some might appreciate this:
At 45 minutes past midnight:
75.7 °F / 24.3 °C
Light Rain
I'm reading 72.1F up here on the river 9 miles from the sea...(c;

Wednesday
Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.

Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.

We keep our Palmetto Bugs warm....(c;
http://www.blufftontoday.com/images/palmettobug.jpg
For those that don't know, they are all over the South, anywhere there is
water. They eat almost anything, are gross but totally harmless, don't
bite or have venom. I've clocked them across the kitchen floor over 30 mph
running and 45 flying in on final approach. When one only lives a few
days, ones flying skills, especially turning and landing are extremely
limited to a controlled crash. So, they crawl like the little German
Yankee roaches, but mostly outdoors, though one crawled across my desk two
hours ago on his way to meet his maker!

DON'T STEP ON THEM IN BARE FEET! THEY EXPLODE INTO PROTOPLASM!

"Larry" wrote in message
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"KLC Lewis" wrote in
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And "Palmetto Bugs," and the wonderful smell of that paper mill...

You are talking about the state bird of South Carolina. Btw, we had some
friends that stopped here in Beaufort for a couple weeks and it was 14
months before they were able to cut the lines and get away......

Leanne

And yes I know that they say the Carolina Wren is the official state bird