I sent Dillon on a beer run. I was too embarrassed to buy it myself so I made him. He told the lady as he was buying it that it was the first time he’d ever been ID’ed for a beverage, to which she replied silently with a huge roll of the eyes. Dillon said he was serious, and she said, “Yah right.” So he explained to her what it was for… gardening! Did you know that if you fill cups up with the nasty stuff, that it attracts slugs to it, which crawl in and drown? Yesiree, I counted the slugs the next day and there were 16 slugs in the cups!!! And when I was looking, two more were climbing in on their way to their blissful death. Dillon really wanted to take pictures. There was one where I look like I’m about to drink it, but I drew the line there as far as your viewing pleasure…let’s avoid at least a little bit of the appearance of evil here on my family blog, right?!
Poor little plant eaten by the slugs.
Me…and my beer gut.
Feelin’ a bit naughty.
Happy little plant, thanks to Natural Light.
I think the best part was that our house next door is for sale, and while taking our dorky pictures and laughing our fool heads off at each other, some nice young couple came with a realtor to look at the house. I debated on whether or not to go tell them we were just kidding, I mean come on?! This could be their future home here, and we might have just totally disuaded them from living there! I wasn’t going to say anything until I saw they had a new little baby…so I went over there and told them we were just joking around, the beer was just for the garden. I don’t know if they believed me or not…maybe I actually made their opinion of us worse, but it just goes to show, you can’t always judge by first impressions, right!?
Hilarious!
Oh my gosh, that is so funny, i was dying laughing at those pictures you look so white trash, i love it…And then the story just got better about the neighbors…
Total white trash! That's what I told Dillon cause we were both in our grungy yard work clothes:).
That is so funny! I had no idea beer could take care of a slug problem. I hope you get good neighbors :)
You're hilarious! I love it! I say, if that sweet little couple judged you, serves them right.. not that I wouldn't of, just sayin… kthnxbye!
I might have to try that.. At least you don't live in a small town and everyone knows you when you are buying it!
Yes, beign ID-ed for beer is a bit disconcerting when you don't actually drink alcohol. Matt is actually a lover of non=alcoholic beer. About once a year or so, I'll go grab him a six-pack. It feels so weird, and I always pray noone from church is in the line behind me. That plant with the holes looks an awful lot like some in mine. Maybe I'll try the beer-trap. Hey, it works for so many adults these days, why not for slugs?
That is pretty funny
This cracked me up–I think my mom tried this years ago. The part about your potential neighbors is what I found so funny–when we went to look at our house for the first time, the neighbor came over and she was just wasted! Our landlords were so embarassed, but we still moved in. :)
You are hilarious! Love the pictures!