Love Hate (read the story)
I have a kind of love/hate relationship with ice plant. It has beautiful flowers and makes for cool pics.
BWTM, many, many years ago, when I was in basic training at Ft. Ord, California, we weren't allowed to leave the battalion area the first few weekends we were there unless on duty. So, one Saturday morning, the drill sergeants loaded a bunch of us into a deuce and a half, gave each of us a carpet knife and a gunny sack. They then took us out to one of the beach ranges that had lots of ice plant and told us to cut it with the knife and stick it in the bag. When all of our bags were full, we went to another range that didn't have much ice plant and they told us to plant the stuff we had just picked. "Just stick the cut end into the sand. It'll grow" they said. So, we did. Know what? They were right.
But I still hate the stuff.
Love Hate (read the story)
I have a kind of love/hate relationship with ice plant. It has beautiful flowers and makes for cool pics.
BWTM, many, many years ago, when I was in basic training at Ft. Ord, California, we weren't allowed to leave the battalion area the first few weekends we were there unless on duty. So, one Saturday morning, the drill sergeants loaded a bunch of us into a deuce and a half, gave each of us a carpet knife and a gunny sack. They then took us out to one of the beach ranges that had lots of ice plant and told us to cut it with the knife and stick it in the bag. When all of our bags were full, we went to another range that didn't have much ice plant and they told us to plant the stuff we had just picked. "Just stick the cut end into the sand. It'll grow" they said. So, we did. Know what? They were right.
But I still hate the stuff.