Don't be a tall thistle

... unless you want to be sprayed.

We've been spraying weeds (that's spraying weedkiller on weeds, in case my expression's not entirely clear...) for weeks now. Some paddocks are very badly infested with thistles. There's hardly any grass to be seen. So we take the tractor with a tank of weedkiller and spray. Or I take the herd manager's bike (if he's not using it) with a small container of weedkiller and, guess what, spray. Sometimes if I only have a couple of minutes or I'm driving in a paddock and I see a lone thistle, I just chip them. And a lone thistle very often turns out to be not so lone after all...

They follow me everywhere. They grow on the roadside where I can see them when I'm biking home. I can see thistles when I close my eyes. If I have a dream about them, I'll consider it a nightmare...