Re: More! Carmine! Capades!

In article <Xns9ACA9743A46167544444@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Terri <Terri@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe just suspicious. As I mentioned, he has an *intense* dislike of
snakes he learned as a kid in Mississippi and Louisiana that stems
from alligator hunting in the bayous. It seems he recalls spending most of
his time watching out for cottonmouths falling out of the cypress trees
into the boat.

Yeah, those are different. I was out fishing once under a
bridge and my attention wandered, and the next thing I knew
there was a copperhead on the end of my pole. I threw the
whole thing in the water and ran like hell (I must have been
13 or so at the time).

Around here I find that while I do make an effort not to
kill anything in general (yellowjackets excepted) sometimes
something's quiet in the grass and you can't see it. Every
once in awhile on a mowing pass I'll find that I killed a
snake on the previous pass.

One time I found a snake in my downstairs bathtub. It was
too big to have come up the drain (and isn't that a myth,
anyway?) but I think sometimes snakes come up from the
basement. Greta once killed a snake inside the house. It
was the only time she ever harmed another animal (although
she did once chase a horse, dammit).
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