the strangest thing

[Frickman]

Last week we were baling hay, and a customer's grown daughter hopped up on the wagon to help. I was in another field round baling, but the way I heard the story from another witness she took after a black snake they jumped up while the boys went the other way. She wanted it for in her barn, but didn't get it. A black snake is better than several cats for rodent control, and you don't have to feed them.

[Grawulf]

Me thinks we all need some boots - it's getting a little deep in here!!!!! :D

[rbarshaw]

We live on the edge of an old southern swamp that goes on for miles here. Snakes make regular apperances, that 8' rattler is the biggest i've seen in the 25 years i've been living here, but not the biggest I've heard of, and seeing as I encounter about 5 a year of different types all poisonus, I guess that's about 100. My wife found a baby rattler sitting on the kitchen window sill inside the house, caged it and fed it a piece of hotdog and it died promptly. I've found copperheads in firewood stacks, in the barn, under anything laying around, in the chicken yard after baby chicks and many other cicumstances, I don't like them around and try to keep the place cleared of snake hiding places as mutch as possible.