Was out looking about the woods yeaterday and decided to cut a bit of wood on the edge of a chop. Lots of little oaks laying about so it was easy cutting......and no splitting later!
So while I'm using the saw Louann is wandering down the edge of the chop maybe a hundred yards away checking the edge of the woods for sign.
At one point I had put down the saw to gather up some of what was cut and carry it to the truck. As I'm doing this I hear her start yelling "snake!!" Well she's got snake boots on and always carrys a bad attitude so I'm not to worried. Still I yell back asking what kind?
She says she doesn't know but that it's real prety.
Now we've got a few snakes here in the house, have had for years. There are a couple of western hog nose, a emerald tree boa, a python of some sort ( a small species ), a king snake, a rat snake, a corn snake and a banded water snake. Over the years she's had at least a hundred come and go. The point being that I had good reason not to be worried as she's familiar with snakes.
Besides that she's been hunting with me for ever.
Anyway, I go back to cutting wood. A few minutes later I see her coming up the road holding the "prety" snake by the head.
The ensuing argument was classic. She said that it was safe and that she knew what she was doing. I took the oposit view in that there was no way in &^$$ that catching that thing, more or less carrying it by the head was was "safe".
I demamded she put it down. She said she was keeping it. I said she had to have a permit from the FWC to keep it. She said they would never know she had it. I said yes they would because if she did not put it down I would call them and tell them she had it.
Got a little ugly there for a minute.........
Snake was finally released.......and then picked up on a stick so I could take the picture she demanded to have taken......she wanted to catch it by hand again but I held her down till she agreed not to.
And tell me........isn't it usually the women who are stopping US from doing stupid things??
So while I'm using the saw Louann is wandering down the edge of the chop maybe a hundred yards away checking the edge of the woods for sign.
At one point I had put down the saw to gather up some of what was cut and carry it to the truck. As I'm doing this I hear her start yelling "snake!!" Well she's got snake boots on and always carrys a bad attitude so I'm not to worried. Still I yell back asking what kind?
She says she doesn't know but that it's real prety.
Now we've got a few snakes here in the house, have had for years. There are a couple of western hog nose, a emerald tree boa, a python of some sort ( a small species ), a king snake, a rat snake, a corn snake and a banded water snake. Over the years she's had at least a hundred come and go. The point being that I had good reason not to be worried as she's familiar with snakes.
Besides that she's been hunting with me for ever.
Anyway, I go back to cutting wood. A few minutes later I see her coming up the road holding the "prety" snake by the head.
The ensuing argument was classic. She said that it was safe and that she knew what she was doing. I took the oposit view in that there was no way in &^$$ that catching that thing, more or less carrying it by the head was was "safe".
I demamded she put it down. She said she was keeping it. I said she had to have a permit from the FWC to keep it. She said they would never know she had it. I said yes they would because if she did not put it down I would call them and tell them she had it.
Got a little ugly there for a minute.........
Snake was finally released.......and then picked up on a stick so I could take the picture she demanded to have taken......she wanted to catch it by hand again but I held her down till she agreed not to.
And tell me........isn't it usually the women who are stopping US from doing stupid things??
yep there are poisonous snakes right close to ya