Czeching in and SSSSSSSSSSS! It's that time of year

[OldUsedParts]

I got one: One time during the Houston Livestock Show, I was staying with my best friend who lived in Houston so I didn't have such a long drive every morning and night. Weellll his youngest son was like you (brrrrr LOL) and caught and kept "harmless snakes" (they don't exist in my world). That night after supper he got the snake out and came walking in the den. I stood up and in a very AUDIBLE voice I said "If you bring that snake close to me, you both DIE" - - - - THEY ALL laughed and he put the snake back in his cage. When I went to bed each night I took a large towel and wedged it under the door so that I would not be cardio-vascularly (?word?) awaken in the middle of the night. YES, it's possible to sleep with one eye open !

[Sailor Kenshin]

I got one: One time during the Houston Livestock Show, I was staying with my best friend who lived in Houston so I didn't have such a long drive every morning and night. Weellll his youngest son was like you (brrrrr LOL) and caught and kept "harmless snakes" (they don't exist in my world). That night after supper he got the snake out and came walking in the den. I stood up and in a very AUDIBLE voice I said "If you bring that snake close to me, you both DIE" - - - - THEY ALL laughed and he put the snake back in his cage. When I went to bed each night I took a large towel and wedged it under the door so that I would not be cardio-vascularly (?word?) awaken in the middle of the night. YES, it's possible to sleep with one eye open !

Gotcha. No snakes! Even if they taste like chicken!

(I switched to kitties later on anyway. But way back, I was an avid Junior Naturalist.)

[OldUsedParts]

Fried Rattler is "Larapin" and I love it but only when it's on my Plate

More Hi-Jack, if I may

I was guilty of going to Sweetwater ONE YEAR and I got my fill.
http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/roundup.html

The late great comedian, Jerry Clower, used to tell a story about going and meeting a lady from the SPCA. When he asked her why she was there she replied "to make sure they kill the Rattle Snakes RIGHT!" Jerry replied "Lady, please tell me how could you possibly kill a Rattle Snake WRONG?"

[Boots]

Dessert!

I guess now's not the time to mention I used to keep snakes as pets.

I have high lighted what "I" consider the most important words of that st-st-st-st-statement.

Relax. They weren't venomous.

Big, though. Garter snakes, which were in plenty when we first moved here. I would study them awhile, then set them free.

Back in college, for a class in Circus, I got assigned the sideshow. Someone gave me a six foot blacksnake. After the show, and before I could give him back, he got loose in my apartment and hid in a closet full of wooden gears. The guy who witnessed this and was supposed to 'help' (NOT, I repeat, NOT PB) stood on a chair squealing like a little girl while I caught the snake by the tail and stuffed him back in his cage.

You had a college class in CIRCUS?? I have to ask the obvious question, was this a CLOWN COLLEGE? LOLOLOL?

[Sailor Kenshin]

Boots, by that time, I began to ask myself the same question.

Transferred back home at the end of the semester. Good thing, too...that's where I met Professor Bunky.