We'll go down to the crawdad hole...
What creature builds a mud chimney?
Funny the things you don't notice, as you drive to and from work each day... Just this week, I was driving home from work and noticed some little mud chimneys in a neighbor's untilled field beside the road.
Of course I knew what they were; I used to have them in the lawn where I mowed at the base of my pond levee. I'm sure they're still there, but the area is so grown up now, I can't see the ground, much less the mud chimneys.
It's been years since I saw a crawdad hole.
I googled the topic and discovered that the holes can go down five feet or more, until they reach the water table. I had no idea they were so deep.
My husband used to tell me how he would try to catch a crawdad by lowering a straw or a string down the hole. The crawdad would grab hold, and he would pull the creature out. I can see him in my mind's eye, a scrawny kid in old worn bib overalls, stooped over the little mud chimney for hours, fishing for crawdads. He would put them in a bucket and carry them off to the fishing hole. There, he would use them for bait on a hot summer day.
The googled article didn't furnish much useful information, except to warn landowners not to try to poison the crawdads to get them out of their yards. Since the holes go down to the water table, you would be poisoning your water supply.
Better get out the straw broom and pull out your crawdad catcher!
The song about those "lazy, hazy days of summer" is echoing through my head....
Have a good summer and don't let the crawdads bite your toes!
From the lazy hills of Tillman, Mo., this is your sleepy blogger Madeline, signing off on a gloriously warm, beautiful Palm Sunday!
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