Tomato Poacher!!!

Jul 8, 2025, 9:44 AM

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I had been watching a prize heirloom tomato ripen over the last couple of days. When I went to pull it this morning, it appeared it half of it had rotted and dropped off the vine. However, after taking a closer look I found a terrapin enjoying it without shame. I couldn't get mad. After all, he offered me the other half.

Which reminds me of a joke: (apologies to Salty55® for posting out of turn)

There was this traveling salesman going through Indiana farm country. He was finished for the day and checked into a cheap motel on the side of the highway. After a quick nap and a bite of dinner he became bored. It was summer. There was still plenty of daylight. So, he asked the motel clerk if there was "anything worth seeing" in these parts? The clerk responded that a local farmer had a "Prize Hog" that everyone wanted to see. He gave the salesman directions and off he went to see the Prize Hog.

The salesman arrived at the hog farm. It was run down. Unimpressive. Still, he knocked on the door and an older gentleman dressed in overalls opened the screen. "Kin I help you, Son?" asked the farmer. The salesman said he heard there was a Prize Hog in these parts and he wanted to see it. The farmer grabbed his old hat, walked out the door and motioned for the saleman to follow. They walked past several hog pens filled with nice hogs. But the Prize Hog was kept to himself inside a cooled barn. The farmer opened the door and said "That's Bill...he's my Prize Hawg. Folks come from all over just to git a look at him." The salesman looked at the fine specimen. He was long. Lean. Perfect in every way. There wasn't a fly on him! But when the hog turned, he saw that Bill was missing a hind leg. Perplexed, the saleman said "That IS a fine hog, but what happened to his leg?" The farmer put his thumbs under the straps of his overalls, leaned back and said..."Well Sonny...you don't eat a Prize Hawg all at once!"

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