Re: today/snakes

Woahhhhh, your mother cut her toes off?  Yikes.  And the snake in
school - I'm laughing myself silly over here.  Reminds me when my son
was chasing a girl around the playground with dog poop on the end of a
stick.  Principal called me...and was trying not to crack when he
explained to me what my son did...I mean really, how can you keep a
straight face.


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Pam Evans<gardenqueen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great story!  I am totally cracking up.
>
> On 7/11/09, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> WhenI was in High-School, more than half a century ago, my best friend
>> and I spent a morning making a great show of passing something back
>> and forth and hiding it from another girl whom we both disliked.  Of
>> course she was intrigued, and demanded to know what we had - threatened
>> to tell the teacher if we didn't show it to her.  We made her promise to
>> keep our secret - made her hold out her hand, and placed the small
>> snake in it.  Her screams were earsplitting, and she had to be taken to
>> the nurse's room for calming.  The principal scolded us, but she was so
>> amused that she couldn't keep her face straight, and couldn't really
>> bring herself to punish us as we deserved.
>> Auralie
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 7/10/2009 9:51:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> macycat3@sbcglobal.net writes:
>>
>> We used to carry around the baby garter snakes when i was a kid.  My
>> older sister got bit once, startled her, but she said if felt like a
>> mosquito bite.  We used to bring them to my mom just to freak her out.
>> Mom was never distressed by much of anything (she spent time on her
>> grandma's farm in Florida in the mid to late 40's), but she hated
>> snakes, and was convinced that any mouse in the house had the singular
>> plan to crawl up her pants leg or up the sheets to get into her bed.
>> Kind of funny coming from the woman who accidently cut off several toes
>> with the lawn mower, calmly hobbled inside (with the decapitated toes in
>> her hand) and called both the ambulance and a friend to come take care
>> of us kids.  P.S.  They did manage to reattach the toes.
>>
>> Theresa
>>
>> andreah wrote:
>> > Jim, what do you mean you've never felt a snake? AT ALL???? You of all
>> > people? They're VERY COOL. I've always loved to hold them. And I love
all
>> of
>> > these stories you guys. I can sympathize with the shrieks, although I
>> pride
>> > myself on never "screaming like a girl" I have a couple of times and was
>> > terribly embarrassed for myself. LOL! Snakes don't bother me in the
>> least,
>> > but we have these big shiny skinks here that make me shiver when I see
>> them.
>> > Just oogly looking. Those, I won't touch!
>> > A
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf
>> > Of Jesse Bell
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:41 PM
>> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] today
>> >
>> > Wow, the stories this group has to share...amazing stuff.  Not sure
>> > HOW I would react to a snake falling on me from above...problee have a
>> > heart attack and keel over - dead.  I like 'em just fine too...away
>> > from my personal self.  Ughhh.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Donna<gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> My DH seen a snake in our backyard and didn't go back out there for a
>> >> year......not sure if he got over it, but this week he was back out
>> there
>> >>
>> > and
>> >
>> >> decided to drain the pond and clean it.  I about died when I came home
>> to
>> >> this.  Somehow I know this will end up to be my project and I really
>> don't
>> >> have the time.....
>> >>
>> >> Jim, I find it hard to believe with all the gardening you did in
Florida
>> >>
>> > that
>> >
>> >> you never touched a snake..... and equally impressed that you did touch
>> a
>> >> gater.....now those are scary.
>> >>
>> >> Donna
>> >>
>> >> --- On Thu, 7/9/09, james singer <inlandjim1@q.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I've never felt a snake. But one of the softest things I ever felt was
>> the
>> >> belly of an alligator... not hard, not scaly, just soft, like the down
>> on
>> >>
>> > a
>> >
>> >> baby duck.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Daryl wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> I've shrieked a couple of times - once when I almost put my hand on a
>> >>>
>> > snake
>> >
>> >> when I went to turn on the faucet, another time when I stepped on a rat
>> in
>> >>
>> > the
>> >
>> >> utility room.  It doesn't help - just leaves your throat raw. ;-)
>> >>
>> >>> Truly, having the snake fall on me was such a novel experience I
didn't
>> >>>
>> > have
>> >
>> >> time to react, and when I saw him slide off of my fingertips, I was
more
>> >>
>> > in
>> >
>> >> awe of his movement than frightened.
>> >>
>> >>> d
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95
>> >>>
>> >> CS/SCOSI" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
>> >>
>> >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:26 PM
>> >>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] today
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> OMG and you're still among us! I'd still have my hair standing on end
>> >>>> from that. In fact my vocal cords would probably not ever have
>> >>>> recovered. I bet they'd have heard me shriek in Australia.
>> >>>> I like snakes just fine...on the ground clearly visible, or under a
>> rock
>> >>>> where I'm not likely to run across them unexpectedly.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Cyndi
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> >>>> Behalf Of Daryl
>> >>>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:27 PM
>> >>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] today
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Yes, that one was pretty slim, and only about 5' long. We've had
>> fatter
>> >>>> ones
>> >>>> in the chicken coop, but I've never had them take eggs, or at least
>> not
>> >>>> that
>> >>>> I noticed. There's often some variation among various days eggs -
>> >>>> sometimes
>> >>>> 10 sometimes 15. They really work at keeping the mice down, though.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Have you ever had one fall on you from the rafters? I did one day. I
>> was
>> >>>>
>> >>>> surprised by how warm it was as it fell on my head, then slid to my
>> >>>> shoulder
>> >>>> and down my arm before moving away.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> d
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com>
>> >>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >>>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 5:38 PM
>> >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] today
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> THAT'S what my snake looks like..only bigger (and fatter now that he
>> >>>>> ate 3 of my eggs).
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Daryl<dp2413@comcast.net> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> We had this lovely specimen in our kitchen a couple of years ago. I
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>> was
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>> able
>> >>>>>> to get him out of the house safely, before the cats hurt him.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/Daryl.photos/SnakesAlive?authkey=Gv1sRgCLyHp
>> >>>> sqskdT2Rg&feat=directlink
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>> d
>> >>>>>>
>>
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