Six Reasons to Keep Your Grass Cut Short in Texas

howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas
where you need to keep your eyes open when you walk outside!

lol. I was talking to a local Sheriff who told me that most people who
get bitten by snakes are walking around the yard with flip flops on
and not paying attention to where they're walking, much of the time
in tall grass!

It makes no sense to me but isn't that the nature of us humans
generally speaking? It's why they say self-driving cars will save so
many lives..because people get distracted so easily or they don't
pay attention in the first place.

Anyway we have some critters out here that it's best to avoid unless
you're wanting to catch them for some reason. Well, one of them is
ticks so I don't know why anyone would want to catch those but here's
a list of things to avoid in the grass in Texas.

here's that tick I was talking about, little blood suckers carry diseases:

source

Copperhead. they're venomous:
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Water Moccasin. most deadly snake in North America:
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scorpion:

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Now here's a picture of one of the front yards in our neighborhood
and we always cringe when we see the little toddlers out there
playing in the tall grass:

Sometimes the grass is even taller than that! Would you let your little
kids play out there in that grass in Texas? We keep our grass SHORT.
There's also chiggers and fleas that come with tall grass.

And I we don't walk around in flip flops neither. Ok well, after that I do
have some good pictures to show you that I got of our beloved
Road Runners:

the bottom 3 photos were taken by me.

The Road Runners are faithfully patrolling all around our house
catching all kinds of critters, they're a blessing!

Thanks for reading folks and God bless you all!
-jonboy Texas
the gentleman redneck

ya know...you might just be a redneck if:

If you refer to the 5th grade as "your senior year!"