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Does anyone live near a place with some real, live, tumbleweeds?

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Old 10-09-2007, 09:05 AM
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Does anyone live near a place with some real, live, tumbleweeds?
We have this interoffice joke of tumbleweeds blowing around when things get slow at work. I actually looked online to see if there was a place where I could get a few. I got to thinknig, does anyone actually go sit outside on their porch and tumbleweeds blow by? Living in southern Louisiana, there sure aren't any dry ball of weeds blowing around, that's for sure. Anybody on here see them on a regular basis?
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in the summer time up here in Canuckville there is quite a bit of them acctually
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Drive across western Kansas on I-70 in the fall and the fences have become a tumbleweed filter!
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im looking at some right now! he he
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All over the place here. On a windy day it looks like the great tumbleweed migration.
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Heck, send him a few... I bet shipping would not be that bad. Just have to find a big box...
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Old 10-09-2007, 10:55 AM
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Heck, send him a few... I bet shipping would not be that bad. Just have to find a big box...
Hey! Seriously, if anyone could do that, PM me. I'm interested!
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When we get a bad wind here they tear up fences. People complain that move to new subdivisions when the pile so high they can't get out the door of their house.
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when i drive over to eastern Wa in the summer u see them alot. It's from the sage brush that grows over there. It's kinda wierd u drive over the moutains and then it's like a desert over there.
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we sure get em here. when its windy they pile up against all the fences
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see them all the time in AZ
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I have a whole bunch growing in my yard, and some of them are about 4 ft high.
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This is crazy. I can't imagine being out in your yard and having to keep an eye peeled to make sure one of these things don't take you out!

Still no offers to send me one? It doens't need to be big...soccer ball size would be perfect!
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Next time I am out in the desert popping off rounds at helpless soda cans, I will grab you one. I will probably go out in the next few weeks.
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This is crazy. I can't imagine being out in your yard and having to keep an eye peeled to make sure one of these things don't take you out!
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They do sting abit on a windy day........( dont ask)

I've worked wrecks were folks( ussually out-of-staters) have crashed and burned dodging them.....
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