No steve the bullet went into the back of my head 1/32 from vertebrae and 1/16 from my juggler took off the whole right side of my face and taking out a little over 1/4 of my brain . a graze is what happened to Trump doctor’s cant figure out why i am still alive . Good care for me would be to have a doctor look at my issue im in for instead of MRIs when i have a broken wrist now lmao . IM here Because God Chose me to be . IM here because when the dr said sew her up she is gonna Die i said your Not God … I blame God for me being here threw the Good and the Bad
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Wow, thank you for sharing what happened to you. I have heard of people surviving head shots but never spoken to one! It sounds like you are one tough survivor. I can’t imagine trying to work through all that and on top of it, try to get the family land back. Sickening to say the least.
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Trust me it was hard 8 yrs . when i moved here to florence close enough to my dad who was dieing of agent orange cancer and far enough away from the shooter . i bought a fixer upper . while i was still working on walking and stuff i used the work to get myself back to getting to me . it was the hardest thing i have ever had to do. when my best friend Mark built me a green house my mom bought me a lemon tree . it died i found a group and met Joe real and stan Mckenzie who took me under their wing and helped me learn how to grow citrus bananas so on and so forth . its been 26 yrs and i love them both like family. back then Joe had a tree that was 10 in 1 i think its been grafted more then that now . hes the graft master and i learned to do that as well . i am lucky i met 2 of the Greatest guys for this Hobby . as a kid my dad was a green beret we moved to panama and i got used to eating fresh fruits off trees and have always hated store bought so .
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that’s horrible yet amazing at the same time Tammy. God definitely has something more lined up for you. hopefully it was a accident and not intentional. you are a walking miracle! good job overcoming your disabilities. being a military brat has given you the fortitude to do that. glad to have you here and above ground.
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wild persimmons
you cant kill them. I built a house in a grove of them. Cut them down, mowed them, poisoned them. hacked the roots with a grub axe. Im done.
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You hate them and id love to grow a couple God bless you . have you tried Salting the roots ? or drilling holes in the trunk base and salting that ?
I don’t like those things that shoot their seeds at you when they get dry…
A bunch grew with my watermelons and i thought they were cool at first until my watermelons started shooting their microscopic hairs at me too. A bunch ended up in my right eye and i ended up getting my eyeball cut opened the week after and all of it pulled out. Since then, I’ve been picking them as much as i can. I went to the hospital for minor surgery elsewhere and ended up in the optometry department the day after to get my eyes cut open too 
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@joan …graft those wild persimmons over to some nice american, hybrid, asian varieties.
I have 11 here… that I did like that.
On killing coons… i have killed thousands… was a fur trapper back in the 70s-80s.
A good tap on the head to stun… then a 22 bullet between the ears and out the mouth.
That only made one small hole in the fur… did it thousands of times. Takes them out quick.
TNHunter
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there was money to be made back then. esp. cold weather northern pelts went for a premium. pine marten , mink, fisher and beaver were worth the most. you were busy as a beaver back then. i had a friend that trapped beaver through the ice in the winter. went with him often in high school. damned hard work.
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@steveb4 … there was a big difference in pelt quality and in most cases animal size between northern and southern fur.
The most we ever got offered for southern beaver was like 3-4 bucks. A possum brought about the same.
Our top dollar fur was bobcat… a nice male 100.00 or more. But you dont catch those every day…
Coon was the real pay off for us… with prices in the 15.00-25.00 range and an abundance of them. I caught 35 coons in one night back in the early 80s.
Grey and red fox brought 35.00 - 50.00.
A nice male mink 45.00.
As to the work of it… yes… but as a young man I loved it.
My partner and I would float several different stretches of a local river… starting before daylight on a Friday morning… we set traps all day until dark… then finish the float a few hours by flashlight or qbeam.
On Saturday we would run those traps, collect critters and reset the traps… then set more traps further down the river than we got to the previous day… again until dark… then finish the float by light. On Sunday morning we would run all those traps, pull everything (had a boat load) and get back home about dark and skin animals for 2-3 hours or more… and we were both fast at taking the pelts. We often had 40-60 critters to skin.
I could skin a coon in about 20 seconds.
TNHunter
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One of my favorite trees is Black Walnut. As it is also prone to killing off the other trees in my yard and the last thing the squirrels go dig back up, it is also one of the only trees I am quick to kill off where it volunteers.
I’ve tried to plant assorted English Walnuts in proximity to create a more desireable choice, but I’m not so sure it is not killing them off too.
How close were you planting the English walnuts to the black? And was it a seedling black or an old established tree? I’ve heard some guys have better luck when grafting English onto black walnut rootstock, but even then, distance seems to make or break it.
I live downhill from a huge black walnut tree. And those things love to roll… When we moved in the previous owners didn’t touch the back yard for years and we had several fairly big black walnuts I had to take out. And now every spring I get 50 baby trees sprouting up about now. I guess the squirrels are moving them because they are all over the place.
Meanwhile I’m gathering varieties and trying them because I love them and they are great berries for the kids and livestock
The BW is over 100’ tall, and pretty darned straight. Drops me 3-4k nuts every other year - post collection; who knows how many are stolen from the tree. Crown is no longer huge. Everything in my yard is uphill and upstream from it. Assorted English and a butternut ranged from fifteen to probably 60-70’ away. None of them are happy, but grandma BW is not visibly suffering at all. Butternut is a seedling, the closest and fairing the best. I’m honestly not sure of the grafts on the others, but I’m fairly sure two are paradox.
I’ve removed a number of the grandchildren, so it’s possible there are roots underground from younger trees no longer with us. I dig enough random seedlings the squirrels plant that I might should practice grafting them, but I don’t want more BW roots, but fewer. There are several children still in the vicinity (off my property), but mostly across the creek or across the road.
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I think you had demon possessed water melons
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100% or inspect the vines like a gemologist with their little monocle haha
How you get attacked by melons and is that how you got your screen name? @Melon haha
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I bet she burned them at the stake then took their name
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no… i did cut down that one plant though.
I have a theory that if one plant hangs around another enough, they talk to each other and can evolve. And that evolution happens quicker when they’re super happy and growing vigorously.
Funny enough, i wasn’t wearing my glasses this day 
now i wear eyepro just in case when i inspect melons sometimes
Hairy Bittercress - this is the name
Blueberry was taken and Melon sounds like Meilyn lol. And Melon grow a lot of melons in an area where it was supposedly very hard to grow melons 
either that or passionfruit but oddly enough, since i left Colorado, my passion fruit haven’t been as vigorous 
and i can’t figure out why
But yeah, i hate those small shooting seed, white flower plants with a passion. I can forgive my melons because it was only one watermelon plant that did that. Today, i got shot again with the seeds while walking around.
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I hate every variety that does not grow for me. Thats means everthing I have tried to grow. Each fruit tree present specific problems. Understanding your soil type, micro climate and diseases helps your success rate greatly. I have failed on every variety I have grown and I grow just about everything I can grow in zone 5b. Understanding why you failed is far more important than just giving up. In the 13 years of fruit tree growing I’m guessing I have lost over 20 fruit trees. From peaches, nectarines, sweet cherries, pears, and plums. You will fail at some point but understanding why is important. Peaches and nectarines have so many diseases and insect problems. In my case bacterial spot and borers. I need bacterial spot resistant trees and have to keep the borerers in check. I am going to remove my favorite peach tree this year due to boreres. I just hope it gives me its last crop. I already have a replacement coming in that will be potted. I can go on with the plums.
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