IKR? The blackberries grew wild in the woods behind my house, so we always had to battle the birds to get some juicy morsels and made sure we wore old clothes cuz nothing makes a mom madder then blackberry stains on a new shirt! My lab would chase rabbits into those "sticker bushes" and I would have to call him out before he could get hoplessly stuck! Early summer was the best time ever to go woods walking...rare any of those blackberries made it home, lol.
That is one thing the deer ignore here. I have it ringing the yard, growing where it wants to , I do some kill off it ow it will take over the yard. Same with the blackberries they pop up everywhere.
Ahaha! No poison ivy here that Im aware of but sure got attacked by poison oak when I was a kid. Some nasty stuff.
. When I was a kid, I used to get Poison Oak so badly, my mother brought me to the doctor. So this was the late 70's? Anyway, they had a series of shots that was supposed to make you immune for up to 5 years. Do you know, I never got it again! And I tramped through the same woods into my early 20's.
Omg! You should! That sounds awful. I was never that bad but another kid I knew got it on his face and his eyes swoll shut. It was terrible. I think it scared my mom. Thats when I went in for the shots. Calamide lotion helps but the shots were way better. Let me know what you found out.
I was out in the snow, grooming digging, don't remember what, I felt a root scratch my back. Dead root, I got poison ivy from my shoulder blades down to hips. Dead of winter a dead root. I dug up some tulips at my dad's house right before our wedding, snow on the ground, got poison ivy from the roots in the ground under the snow. Went on a cruise with hands and arms covered with the stuff.
He is easy going and won't be mad! Right? Timothy? lol