• boogetyboo@aussie.zone
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      11 days ago

      I lie down in my backyard. In Australia. There are ants of all kinds. The occasional little spider goes past. Midges and butterflies and dragonflies and bees. The birds have gotten used to me so they walk within feet of me too.

      They go about their business and I, mine. No harm has come to me. It’s nice to be part of their world sometimes.

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        11 days ago

        Just don’t do like my great grandfather that slept for a bit on wet grass and got a pneumonia because of it and died. Of course nowadays medicine is better but it can still happen.

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          10 days ago

          That’s not how you get pneumonia, but he may have weakened his immune system through exposure to make him more susceptible to viruses.

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      11 days ago

      Its weird, as a kid i had no problem laying/rolling around in grass.

      At some point a switch flipped in my head and grass everywhere ‘became infested’ with biting ants, hidden poop, and mud.