This weekend with @vcelier and @naru-celier has been pretty amazing!
As we kicked around ideas of things to do in between eating and sleeping, I suggested that we go out hunting scorpions at night with some UV flashlights that I recently ordered. I had hoped to get them in time for our Texas trip... but they were waiting for us when we returned instead.
Both @vcelier and @naru-celier thought that this was a great idea, so tonight I loaded up @mama-pepper and the @little-peppers and drove to a certain spot that we know of, conveniently located inside a padlocked fence on the other side of town.
HUNTING SCORPIONS AT NIGHT - THE FULL LENGTH VIDEO
SUCCESS!
If you take a look at the video, you will see that within five minutes of unlocking the gate @naru-celier had located his first ever scorpion! It was a good sized Striped Bark Scorpion and it was very quick. I grabbed it and put it in the container that the @little-peppers had brought along.
At about the 8 1/2 minute mark, @vcelier found our second scorpion of the night. By my standards, they had succeeded!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE?"
In all of my 36 years of life, I have literally only caught a handful of scorpions in the wild. As far as hunting them at night with UV flashlights, I have only ever tried that in Texas years ago, and I have only ever found one scorpion doing it. That was down in Eagle Pass, Texas a few years back, but it has only happened once in my life.
Yes, now that I have some new UV flashlights and know of local places where I can look for them, it certainly will be a periodical hobby of mine, but I had never searched for scorpions by night like this in Arkansas until tonight, and tonight was not about me.
Tonight I wanted our guests from way up north to try to find some. In all of the 67 years that @vcelier has lived, he has never done this. The much younger @naru-celier never had either. So, tonight on this memory-making grandfather/grandson vacation, the two not only got to try looking for scorpions at night, but they succeeded in it!
Many of us will never have such experiences and certainly not with our grandfathers by our side. For @naru-celier, this is one of those nights that he will most likely remember long into his adult life. Interestingly enough, we only found two scorpions tonight, and they each found one on their own! (I even looked around a little more after they left, but could not find another one.)
If we listed the number of times that each of us has found a scorpion in the wild at night with a UV flashlight, it would look like this:
@vcelier - 1
@papa-pepper -1
@naru-celier -1
Yup, that looks like a "once in a lifetime experience" for all of us, at least so far!
CLOSING THOUGHTS
These two little scorpions were running around as usual just hours ago. Now they are having their photos being shown worldwide on steemit. What an interesting day and age that we live in.
Even more so, what an interesting community that we are a part of on steemit. From large events like STEEMfest to smaller local meetups to steemians meeting online and getting together one on one offline, I think that steemit has changed things when it comes to real relationships sprouting from online interaction. Not only can the average user gain some money from their online activities because of steemit, they can also gain some real friends.
I have been blessed enough to have met several steemians in real life already, and many I would legitimately call my friends. I look forward to continuing living my life and meeting others, and believe that I will end up meeting many more of you one day. If we did meet up, would you like to try going on an adventure like this? Would you prefer just hanging out, enjoying some meals, and talking about things instead? Is there a different idea that you would want to try? Also, if I came to visit you, what would you want to show me or do with the @papa-pepper tribe while we were in your area?
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-wild-scorpions-and-some-new-scorpion-hunters
Until next time…
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