A Forestry Forum snake hunting trip

Magicman · May 27, 2024, 07:48:26 PM

The snake went Fed-Ex. My box is coming UPS and I got my delivery notice today:

Hi Lynn,

Your package is arriving tomorrow.

From: Somewhere in Florida and Smells Fishy

Scheduled Delivery

Tuesday 05/28/2024
10:15 AM - 2:15 PM

WV Sawmiller · May 27, 2024, 08:33:47 PM

A week or so back a candidate for a State office was picking up his political signs after our 14 May Primary and state election. The man got defeated for the job then to make matter worse a copperhead bit him while collecting his old signs. Talk about adding injury to insult.

WV Sawmiller · May 27, 2024, 09:09:10 PM

Lynn,

At least your delivery notice did not say "We are are worried something may be broken inside because we keep hearing something rattle."

Magicman · May 27, 2024, 09:53:21 PM

The "smell" notice has me concerned. I was in the military long enough to know what a "fart sack" is.

WV Sawmiller · May 28, 2024, 08:52:40 AM

Then you probably also know what a Rubber Lady was.

Magicman · May 28, 2024, 09:13:12 AM

Yup, she goes under da fart sack.

TimW · June 01, 2024, 12:57:52 AM

Dang it all Howard. I just finished reading this and I laughed so hard, I pulled a muscle.
Doc, calling Doc. Help. Stat.

WV Sawmiller · June 04, 2024, 09:17:00 PM

Thanks @TimW . You know we may have to add a trip to Texas to our Bucket list. Don't they have rattlesnake round-ups out there? And I heard there are game farms with large African antelopes and such? I am sure Tom and Doc would love to learn about Javelinas. Don't they eat prickly pears too. And I saw a show about American Hoggers catching wild hogs with dogs out there. I think some people even kill the hogs with spears and Bowie Knives. I hear the hogs hardly ever get free from a good catch dog. What could possibly go wrong with a vacation like that.

Hmmm? Let's see - Tom gets a sore throat and can't talk good and they think he is an illegal immigrant and he gets shipped back across the border to Mexico where he came from and Doc rushes in to save him and tells the ICE folks he is his brother and they both end up on the other side of the river.

Yes, I can see how the story line can develop here.

Magicman · June 05, 2024, 07:20:48 AM

Ugly is not always a bad thing because if it was not for ugly, who would know the difference.

WV Sawmiller · June 05, 2024, 09:35:10 AM

I think somebody found his purple drank Miz Pat hid from him.

WV Sawmiller · June 23, 2024, 08:32:28 PM

Our daughter came up for the weekend with our 7 y/o GS and 5 y/o GD so I printed a copy of this and read them the first few chapters. My GS was really getting into it and felt really bad for Tom/OGH (We did not get to Doc's travails or my near misses) and both of them asked me several times "Is that a true story?" I confessed it was an exaggeration.

My GS thought the funniest cartoon we covered was the 3rd one where Tom slipped and was asleep (okay - unconscious) beside the bathtub. His expression when he saw the X's for eyes was priceless.

I sent the printout with them when they went home today so we will see if he finishes reading it or gets his mom and dad to help him with it.

JD Guy · June 23, 2024, 09:34:33 PM

Quote from: WV Sawmiller on June 23, 2024, 08:32:28 PMOur daughter came up for the weekend with our 7 y/o GS and 5 y/o GD so I printed a copy of this and read them the first few chapters. My GS was really getting into it and felt really bad for Tom/OGH (We did not get to Doc's travails or my near misses) and both of them asked me several times "Is that a true story?" I confessed it was an exaggeration.

My GS thought the funniest cartoon we covered was the 3rd one where Tom slipped and was asleep (okay - unconscious) beside the bathtub. His expression when he saw the X's for eyes was priceless.

I sent the printout with them when they went home today so we will see if he finishes reading it or gets his mom and dad to help him with it.

Uh Oh, Now you're going to have to pay royalties to the other "actors"

Magicman · June 23, 2024, 09:48:16 PM

I get no royalty because I have it on good authority that Howard claims that he misspelled my initials.

Old Greenhorn · June 23, 2024, 09:58:16 PM

Great, now I am the comic relief character in a children's book.

WV Sawmiller · June 24, 2024, 09:41:56 AM

No, you are kind of like the Indiana Jones who is always getting into trouble but figuring out and fighting your way back from insurmountable odds. My GS thinks you are the hero in the story because you have already escaped poisonous snakes, hornets, and alligators. Wait till he finds out about the wild hogs and panthers!

If you haven't read this to your grandchildren you need to do so.