Got bitten by a snake.

IKE said:
I shouldn't even be telling this but do you wanna hear a critter itching story SB ?

Several years back (my mid 30's) I had access to a private farm with a few ponds that had some pretty good fishing in them. Well real early one Saturday morning mama and I went fishing there, she packed a lunch and drinks and away we went.

We fished from around daybreak till noon and stopped for lunch......I spread a blanket on the tall grass under a big tree, we ate and then one thing led to another and we ended up fooling around.

All was well till about 1:00 a.m. the next morning and I woke up itching badly all over and had little red spots on me everywhere.......CHIGGER BITES ! !.......for some reason mama never got bit once but I had a very miserable few days.

The moral of the story ?........save the hanky panky for the bedroom and definitely keep your britches on when in the outdoors. :)
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:lol: Ike! Never had the pleasure of meeting up with chiggers, but mosquitoes bit me in places where the sun don't shine. I agree, keep your britches on when outdoors.....but soooo hard if you're out camping! :yes:
 

SB about every other time we went fishing together after the incident for several years she'd look at me and jokingly say, "wanna fool around" ?.......I married a cruel, cruel woman. :D
 
If you had skint him, you could have made a hatband.

You should have taken his picture for a positive identification.

Rattlesnake tastes just like chicken.
 
IKE said:
Shali Google 'chigger bites'........they are little bitty suckers that bite and make you itch like crazy.
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When I was little we used to visit relatives in OK -- Muskogee and a place called Drumright. They were lousy with chiggers, as was Grandpa's house in Arkansas. We learned real quick why local kids didn't roll around in the grass!
 
IKE said:
I shouldn't even be telling this but do you wanna hear a critter itching story SB ?

Several years back (my mid 30's) I had access to a private farm with a few ponds that had some pretty good fishing in them. Well real early one Saturday morning mama and I went fishing there, she packed a lunch and drinks and away we went.

We fished from around daybreak till noon and stopped for lunch......I spread a blanket on the tall grass under a big tree, we ate and then one thing led to another and we ended up fooling around.

All was well till about 1:00 a.m. the next morning and I woke up itching badly all over and had little red spots on me everywhere.......CHIGGER BITES ! !.......for some reason mama never got bit once but I had a very miserable few days.

The moral of the story ?........save the hanky panky for the bedroom and definitely keep your britches on when in the outdoors. :)
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IKE said:
Shali Google 'chigger bites'........they are little bitty suckers that bite and make you itch like crazy.
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Chiggers do not care if you are dressed or nekked!! They love to stay anywhere that you sweet!!!

A good sanke is a dead snake, any kind!!!
 
I agree with you Ken, a good snake is a dead snake!

I detest snakes and am afraid of them. I don't want to see a picture of one or see
one of TV.

We keep our lawn and yard mowed and luckily I haven't seen one for years and I hope
I don't as long as I live.
They give me nightmares!!!
 
QuickSilver said:
Just little Garter Snakes.. I used to play with them as a kid.. although seeing so many at one time is quite disconcerting.
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'Just a little garter snake' has no meaning when you are phobic about snakes. I was walking down the path in our garden and looking down noticed a little snake about the size of a pencil, and it had the same effect that a 15' boa constrictor would have:eek:.

Mind you, despite my fear, I would never kill one because they want to live too and they are so necessary in the environment as part of the balance.
 
Debby said:
'Just a little garter snake' has no meaning when you are phobic about snakes. I was walking down the path in our garden and looking down noticed a little snake about the size of a pencil, and it had the same effect that a 15' boa constrictor would have:eek:.

Mind you, despite my fear, I would never kill one because they want to live too and they are so necessary in the environment as part of the balance.
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"Just a little SPIDER" has the same meaning for me.. lol!!
 
A bit of trivia for those who like snakeskin bags, etc.,

Did you know that when those Asian countries supply the snake skin, they skin them alive and it can take days for them to die. Days. No skin, for days.
 
IKE said:
About an hour ago in shorts and flip flops I was out back watering mama's flower and herb beds, with a watering wand attached to a hose, before the sun came up good to beat the heat. I was watering her thick mint bed and noticed a couple of weeds so I bent down to pull it and immediately felt a bite on my forefinger and when I pulled my hand out of the bed I saw that I had a snake attached to my finger......it was about 12 to 14 inches long and about the diameter of my little finger.

I shook my hand violently a couple of times and it landed dazed in the yard a few feet from me and I had a few very small / pin size holes oozing a hardly noticeable amount of blood.

By now my mind was racing 100 mph and I knew that I had to ID the snake to see if it was venomous or not so I'm looking around for a long stick to help catch it with but didn't see one so I started unscrewing the aprox. 3' watering wand from the hose which still had water running through it and naturally I got drenched.

I took the wand and pinned the snakes head down and grasp him behind the head and picked him up to look at him......judging by the shape of the head and his round eye pupils I was pretty much certain that it wasn't venomous so I carried him about 150 yds. or so from the house and let it go in a large overgrown field.

After releasing it I finished watering the flowers and herb beds then rolled up the hose and came inside for a cup of coffee and change out of my wet shorts......knowing that she would have a fit I never said nothing to mama, I just gave her a goodbye peck and let her go to work.

Now from looking on the computer it appears that the snake was a fairly common and non-venomous 'brown snake'.

Even as a kid I never have been afraid of snakes and through the years I caught many of them here and overseas that were both posionous and non-posionus and released them.......as a kid I remember taking them to school to scare the little girls.

Hopefully that will be the most exciting thing that will happen to me today. :)
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Nicely done, Ike. A cool head prevailed. Glad to see you didn't beat it to death. It probably ate some of Mamma's mice the night before. Our prevailing culture has made us way too "horrified" about a lot of things. I keep an eye open for the bad guys, but I don't kill spiders either. The jumping spiders are as cute as any puppy dog and you don't have to walk them.
 
Sunny said:
Rattlesnakes in PA, Gemma? That's a surprise! I wonder if we have them here in MD also.
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Absolutely, as well as Copperheads and Water Moccasins. All common throughout the Eastern US. I wouldn't worry though. In my 83 years, I have never seen one in the wild.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Debby, that was all very interesting but I won't be visiting that place anytime soon. I wish them well but they still make me feel kind if creepy. lol
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Interesting yes, but like you, I'll make a wide detour around that place:D. I remember one time we were cleaning out the garage and I got to a certain corner that was kind of dark because of some lumber leaning up in that corner....and I just happened to see 'something'. Don't know what it was but maybe it was my 'spidey' senses saying "don't go there". I called my husband and asked him what did he think that was.....and as he pulled out some of the wood, all of a sudden there was movement and half a dozen snakes, from little guys to 12" long big fella's slithered away in every direction:eek:! I was standing right behind Don peering over his shoulder and before you could take a breath I'm sure, I was up on the porch on the far side of the yard! Yep, don't like being in the vicinity of snakes. I don't mind any of the lizards, but I think it's because they have legs.
 
Just a brown snake? In Australia, if you've been bitten by a brown snake, or a King brown snake, you're in trouble. They're considered highly venomous here.
 
As I mentioned earlier I never have feared snakes and have caught and released many that were both poisonous and non-poisonous both here and overseas.

I went to the outdoor gun range two summers ago and as I pulled up a fella that was downrange hanging his targets came briskly trotting back up to the firing line shouting 'Snake' and was going to go back and shoot the snake with a shotgun.......being a NRA certified RSO (Range Safety Officer) I was able to close down the firing line and I told the shooters to stay put and that I'd go take a look.

I walked down and saw a juvenile rattlesnake (aprox. 3' with two tail rings) I then located a stick and pinned his head down and then picked him up and then climbed the tall dirt bullet stop berm and released him behind it unharmed.

While I caught and released the snake there were about six people watching and when I returned to the firing line not a one of them said one word but I can imagine they were probably saying to themselves, "crazy old bastard." :)
 
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IKE said:
As I mentioned earlier I never have feared snakes and have caught and released many that were both poisonous and non-poisonous both here and overseas.

I went to the outdoor gun range two summers ago and as I pulled up a fella that was downrange hanging his targets came briskly trotting back up to the firing line shouting 'Snake' and was going to go back and shoot the snake with a shotgun.......being a NRA certified RSO (Range Safety Officer) I was able to close down the firing line and I told the shooters to stay put and that I'd go take a look.

I walked down and saw a juvenile rattlesnake (aprox. 3' with two tail rings) I then located a stick and pinned his head down and then picked him up and then climbed the tall dirt bullet stop berm and released him behind it unharmed.

While I caught and released the snake there were about six people watching and when I returned to the firing line not a one of them said one word but I can imagine they were probably saying to themselves, "crazy old bastard." :)
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I congratulate you. There is no honorific higher in life than to be declared a Crazy Old Bastard.:applause2:
 

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