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I'll try and remember this. Here in South Texas we have some large black/gray ants close to an inch long. Their sting is one of the worst, and doen't fade away until the next or third day.
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I'll try and remember this. Here in South Texas we have some large black/gray ants close to an inch long. Their sting is one of the worst, and doen't fade away until the next or third day.
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I grew up with those little monsters!
They never caught me off guard.
Scorpions are a different story all together.
One got me in the middle of the arch of my left foot and it felt like a lightning bolt all the way up to my low back.... and then I felt like I was on fire [emoji91].
I had a close call when I was about five years old.
My grandmother handed me a glass of tea, and just as I tipped it to take a drink, she slapped it out of my hand. I wasn’t sure what I had done to deserve that, but she grabbed me up from the floor and stomped around on the tea, ice and broken glass till she got it.
There was a scorpion 🦂 in the bottom of the glass.
I don’t know how it would felt, and I don’t think I will ever want to know!
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They never caught me off guard.
Scorpions are a different story all together.
One got me in the middle of the arch of my left foot and it felt like a lightning bolt all the way up to my low back.... and then I felt like I was on fire [emoji91].
I had a close call when I was about five years old.
My grandmother handed me a glass of tea, and just as I tipped it to take a drink, she slapped it out of my hand. I wasn’t sure what I had done to deserve that, but she grabbed me up from the floor and stomped around on the tea, ice and broken glass till she got it.
There was a scorpion 🦂 in the bottom of the glass.
I don’t know how it would felt, and I don’t think I will ever want to know!
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Oh , now , now , they are pretty little buggers.. But wear leather gloves messing around in the ground. I've seen some big brown recluses as well in a place. Several of them when I started pulling away rocks. I quit that place pretty quik. Black widows are like under every large rock or gap here. They give me the creeps sometimes, just because I know what they can do if you are barehanded or have your wrists exposed.
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This summer I discovered fuzzy ants. Also known as velvet ants. I found a red and also a white one. The are said to carry a very nasty sting as well.
Here you can watch a guy get bit by one. Good times.
Here you can watch a guy get bit by one. Good times.
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We used to call them "Cow Ants" back in Mississippi. Their sting was claimed could bring down a cow. I have no interest in trying that.
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My whole family knows the pain, we had them inside the house besides the scorpions, and black widows. Found the ants were nesting between a wall.
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Phylis Deller(?spl?) always said, If you want to get ants out of the kitchen, pour sugar in the living room carpet!
Maybe she is correct as to the point of creating a hostile environment, and at the same time creating a trail to another place.
There are a few folks, here on TNET that have mentioned Spaniards of old, doing just that.
They believe that part of the exit strategy for leaving caches, was to transport various creatures, from ants [emoji220] and wasps/ bees [emoji219], to snakes [emoji216] and bear [emoji199] etc... into the areas where they hid their caches.
It is not hard to imagine those ideas, being employed, when we think that we are very close to a cache site, and step a little bit too close to any of them....
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Maybe she is correct as to the point of creating a hostile environment, and at the same time creating a trail to another place.
There are a few folks, here on TNET that have mentioned Spaniards of old, doing just that.
They believe that part of the exit strategy for leaving caches, was to transport various creatures, from ants [emoji220] and wasps/ bees [emoji219], to snakes [emoji216] and bear [emoji199] etc... into the areas where they hid their caches.
It is not hard to imagine those ideas, being employed, when we think that we are very close to a cache site, and step a little bit too close to any of them....
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King mine is certainly, no exception to this type of deterrent, but several folks from many different regions have faced these difficulties.
Quinoa has posted, just a few posts back, with a story and a photograph with a scorpion 🦂 on his gloved hand.
These creatures are surely not limited to our sites. They are world wide.
If I were to stash money [emoji383] in a forest, that is if I had enough to stretch that far. I would want to have a natural and self renewable guardian in place.
When I have been stalled while on the hunt, I have tried to put myself in the place and time of my predecessors and watch, in my own mind, what they were trying to accomplish and ask myself, what, when, and why.
One thing that has been common ground in all of those situations, is creating barriers for long term protection.
Most of the folks that I follow or that follow me, have waited until I have mentioned it, probably for the same reason that I waited to bring it to the surface, sometimes our problems while on the hunt make us feel as though we are all alone, facing hazards that do not make sense to the modern world.
We don’t have a problem speaking of marked death traps or bear populations, but as the creatures get smaller, the conversations become more scarce. They still exist and deter the hunter, just as they exist elsewhere.
Perhaps it is only paranoia, but it still deters many hunters.
“In my humble opinion”
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I have been thinking about the logistics of any site, like Weekender and mine.
They simply can’t be a one man job.
So where do we draw the line?
The workforce that it takes, just to explore and mark the trail cannot be less than two. That, we can be sure of. One man cannot hold a transit and both ends of the measuring chain and the rod, etc..
Thence the cartographer 🧠needs a specialty crew.
A new world [emoji289] requires accurate information much like the charts that made it possible to navigate the ocean’s vast expanses of water, without the convenience of land marks.
So, there is the need for seamanship, that brings with it manpower to collect supplies fit to carry all of the other tools and skilled personnel, to the new world. Those numbers will grow in direct correlation with the size of the expedition.
Once they have reached dry land, they would need crews to hunt and gather food for the growing army of skilled and artisan personnel.
And an actual army for security reasons...
Then comes the need for unskilled labor, dumb muscle, and leadership.
We have not even looked into the trail blazers , horsemen and caretakers for the animals, like oxen, mules and animals needed to perpetually produce food such as chickens for eggs and goats and cattle for milk... no Walmart down the trail, no McDonalds, no infrastructure of any kind.
Then add to the list, Stone Masons and their crews.
Woodworkers for shelter and “ machinery “, blacksmiths for tools and farriers.
The list goes on and on, and each new addition brings with it more personnel...
Throw in a few baggage handlers and bell-hops just so no one gets left out.
Oh, and let us not forget the priests and bean counters.
We have surpassed the “boatload “ and are rounding up towards an armada.
So how many multi skilled men and specialists do we need to sustain our mobile civilizations??
Who have I left out and where do we say “enough”
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They simply can’t be a one man job.
So where do we draw the line?
The workforce that it takes, just to explore and mark the trail cannot be less than two. That, we can be sure of. One man cannot hold a transit and both ends of the measuring chain and the rod, etc..
Thence the cartographer 🧠needs a specialty crew.
A new world [emoji289] requires accurate information much like the charts that made it possible to navigate the ocean’s vast expanses of water, without the convenience of land marks.
So, there is the need for seamanship, that brings with it manpower to collect supplies fit to carry all of the other tools and skilled personnel, to the new world. Those numbers will grow in direct correlation with the size of the expedition.
Once they have reached dry land, they would need crews to hunt and gather food for the growing army of skilled and artisan personnel.
And an actual army for security reasons...
Then comes the need for unskilled labor, dumb muscle, and leadership.
We have not even looked into the trail blazers , horsemen and caretakers for the animals, like oxen, mules and animals needed to perpetually produce food such as chickens for eggs and goats and cattle for milk... no Walmart down the trail, no McDonalds, no infrastructure of any kind.
Then add to the list, Stone Masons and their crews.
Woodworkers for shelter and “ machinery “, blacksmiths for tools and farriers.
The list goes on and on, and each new addition brings with it more personnel...
Throw in a few baggage handlers and bell-hops just so no one gets left out.
Oh, and let us not forget the priests and bean counters.
We have surpassed the “boatload “ and are rounding up towards an armada.
So how many multi skilled men and specialists do we need to sustain our mobile civilizations??
Who have I left out and where do we say “enough”
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It seems that asking the questions about Biblical translations, directly to SIRI, is the easiest and maybe the best way to find answers.
The Kingmine site was expanded last year, from a eight to ten square mile area , to a sixteen to twenty square mile area.
Trying to connect some of the signs and symbols, to the Jesuits has been a little “ iffy” but when I checked into the translation timeline, I found this....
And then many things became clearer.
And others, more complex.
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The Kingmine site was expanded last year, from a eight to ten square mile area , to a sixteen to twenty square mile area.
Trying to connect some of the signs and symbols, to the Jesuits has been a little “ iffy” but when I checked into the translation timeline, I found this....
And then many things became clearer.
And others, more complex.
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Did they come through now?
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I have found a group of photos that demonstrate the style of their crosses.
They are thinner than we find them in Mexico, on the Church buildings and graveyards.. they were slimmer in style and the tips look like long thin diamonds!
Those are what I have found carved into the stones on mine and Weekender’s site.
I believe that the combination of those and the clear freemason’s mark, limit the site’s timeframe to the early 1500’s.
I need to find and post those crosses. It may take my memory a while...
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They are thinner than we find them in Mexico, on the Church buildings and graveyards.. they were slimmer in style and the tips look like long thin diamonds!
Those are what I have found carved into the stones on mine and Weekender’s site.
I believe that the combination of those and the clear freemason’s mark, limit the site’s timeframe to the early 1500’s.
I need to find and post those crosses. It may take my memory a while...
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I’ve been trying to find that group of photos of the slender shaped crosses, without much luck.
However, it hasn’t been without something to study.
I stumbled across a photo of a “Solomon’s Cross”.
It caught my eye because it might be one of the carvings in the stone, that our “stone-man” is looking at.
It is in the cleft of the number 7.
I have tried to figure out what the carving was for some time and now it has a name!
The very thought, of any connection between our site and the Biblical Solomon, is a little unnerving.
Does anyone know anything about the Spanish using this symbol?
And why would it be here?
And while we are looking...
Is that a crescent moon, on the other side of the 7??
And if it is, what does it mean
Oh, I almost forgot about finding this.
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However, it hasn’t been without something to study.
I stumbled across a photo of a “Solomon’s Cross”.
It caught my eye because it might be one of the carvings in the stone, that our “stone-man” is looking at.
It is in the cleft of the number 7.
I have tried to figure out what the carving was for some time and now it has a name!
The very thought, of any connection between our site and the Biblical Solomon, is a little unnerving.
Does anyone know anything about the Spanish using this symbol?
And why would it be here?
And while we are looking...
Is that a crescent moon, on the other side of the 7??
And if it is, what does it mean
Oh, I almost forgot about finding this.
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