And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When I first moved to the desert in the early 80's I would see them darn near every day during my constitutionals. Over the years I realized I was seeing fewer and fewer, then none. I hate to think they are all shelf pieces, but knowing human nature realize they could be.
TCU used to be the "Horned Toads". "Horned Frogs" now. Why?
Sadly, I was at the Bama-TCU game in Birmingham when a TCU payer (Kent Waldrep, I believe?) was paralyzed. Bear Bryant gave $100K to a trust fund to assist in his rehab.
When I was a kid in South Texas you could find one in every red ant colony. All the fire ant poison killed all the red ants and got rid of their main food source. On the good news side I've a bunch in the wild in Palo Duro Canyon State Park.
In the 50's, 60's, they were common in the foothills of East County, San Diego. Mexican fire ants invaded, nothing would eat them. Horny toads moved out.
Back from where I'm originally from we called them "horny toads."
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.
DeleteThey make great dried shelf pieces.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first moved to the desert in the early 80's I would see them darn near every day during my constitutionals. Over the years I realized I was seeing fewer and fewer, then none. I hate to think they are all shelf pieces, but knowing human nature realize they could be.
ReplyDeleteThey were common in the 70s here in southern colorado. Not anymore. Sadly.
DeleteOne of the coolest lizards, ever. Which is saying something.
ReplyDeleteThem, and old world chameleons. Marvelous creations.
Last one I saw in the wild was in 1957,
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone kill one? Great to have around, eats vermin, insects.
ReplyDeleteChief Lone Watie says, A horned toad can tell you which way to go. The horned toad says we should go to Mexico
ReplyDeleteTCU used to be the "Horned Toads". "Horned Frogs" now. Why?
ReplyDeleteSadly, I was at the Bama-TCU game in Birmingham when a TCU payer (Kent Waldrep, I believe?) was paralyzed. Bear Bryant gave $100K to a trust fund to assist in his rehab.
In today's money, that's roughly $700K.
When I was a kid in South Texas you could find one in every red ant colony. All the fire ant poison killed all the red ants and got rid of their main food source. On the good news side I've a bunch in the wild in Palo Duro Canyon State Park.
ReplyDeleteIn the 50's, 60's, they were common in the foothills of East County, San Diego. Mexican fire ants invaded, nothing would eat them. Horny toads moved out.
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