I’m running a little late this morning. I have some things I’m doing and some things I should be doing, but I’ve been on a bit of a roll lately, with two consecutive posts. So, I thought I’d drop by another old A&J strip from 10 years ago. By the way, over at the Universal Uclick Web site Gocomics, A&J just surpassed 60,000 subscribers. That’s not bad! Thanks to all.
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Not to stop the food discussions but we just had a snake crisis. My male young helper and I had beenough plowing through weeding the back 40 which is actually a lot of feet of raised 4 x 40 foot raised beds and he got snake bite by a baby rattle snake on his finger. I had been cleaning this bed full of greens and taking some inside to cook tonight.
See, it is connected to Subject matter?
Snake hung ond n to his finger, Jesse slung it off then caught it aND put in bucket, I got jar, we took Jesse and snake to hospital. First emergency clinic a patient said deadly poisonous piggy rattler. We rush to hospital where much debate goes on because if piggy rattler it involved life flight to hospital with anti venominated antidote.
Finally they decide to keep him for observation but no anti venom, that regular baby rattler who didn’t inject much venom. Did you know babies are much more poisonous?
I went and bought more glovves and weeds choppers, skinny rakes, leaf and weed pickup tools, snake repellant dust. I have owned all this or I’d have been bitten long ago. Going out to chop more leAves and weeds.
Certainly hope the bitee and the bitor are both OK.
The snake was alive and coiling and striking when last I saw him in ER. Jesse called, he is home and may not be in tomorrow.
Wow. Just…wow.
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So they thought it might be a pygmy rattler? Glad it didn’t give him the full load. Hope he will be better soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistrurus_miliarius
Ghost – I loved most of that house (don’t think I could call it a home!) except… the hot pink, red and orange! That part of it reminds of a stereotypical bordello. No thanks…
Too much green! Looks like it was decorated by a leprechaun.
I am still gasping from entire place. I don’t think I could walk through it and not fsint.
They decided it was a baby rattler but not a pygmy or he’d have been on a helicopter as only Tulsa and OKC had the antidotes. I can’t believe we put a live snake in a jar. A brand new screw top apothecary one I had bought for garden seeds. I didn’t want it loose in truck. It was really mad.
You must really be having unseasonable weather out there. I wouldn’t think they would normally be hatching this early in the year. Wear long pants and boots when doing your weeding. Be very careful as those things hatch in multiples and you don’t know whether the nest was on your property or this little guy just thought he had the perfect hiding place.
Some of the comments below the story about the house were pretty clever, including references to characters in the movies Goodfellas and Casino. My favorite was the one that said it was like being inside the machine that makes Froot Loops.
GR6, selling grannies house online?
Mark, not sure what the weather is up near Jackie. I came home to daytime highs in upper 70’s to lower 80’s. The forty to fifty degree change has me shedding. Plenty of lizards out scurring about.
I have been running a/c in car and truck. 70s all over and going to 80s. I did get heating compressor repaired in time to not need it.
Wiki says pygmy rattler bites contain too little venom to kill an adult human but would be dangerous to little kids. One of many nice things / MN is that we have rattlers, 2 spp., one in extreme SE MN, the other in extreme SW. I suppose if it gets warmer, they may expand ranges northward. Be a while before they reach 47 N. We have one constrictor, easily tamed usually, the Bull Snake or Pine Snake, Pituophis catenifer, if that’s still the name. Around here, it’s mostly garter snakes, Thamnophis something. Herps get scarcer as one goes poleward. Four new words. Peace, emb
I asked Elvis and he doesn’t like tomatos. He will eat green grass on occasion.
Remember…officially two and a half more weeks of winter. And I have seen snow accumulation in my corner of the Deep South in late March. Just sayin’.
Debbe 😉 Most of us could use a little inspiration from time to time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjuaVo74meY
Enough recipes and hazardous snakes! I think it’s time for a very non-PC joke from a fellow trucker:
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake…
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels.
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’…
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, ‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl with a ‘Billy-Club’.
3. I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
‘Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy … do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?’
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times…”
Love it! Actually I love blonde jokes, even when I bleached mine white blonde.
Good morning Villagers…..
Well, the beef barley soup turned into beef barley veggies soup….didn’t have enough barley, and we use only frozen veggies….still yummy on a cold afternoon.
I don’t do any hot sauce, when I dip into salsa, it has to be mild or there will be consequences 🙂
I thought it was about time you jumped in here, Jerry.
Love the joke, TR….and this blond only had to read it once 🙂
“I hate snakes” ..quick, what movie?
Going to talk to my sisters and see if they can remember Mom’s wilted lettuce recipe….I have a ‘hankering’ for it now. Unless, Steve, you can remember…….the aroma of bacon and vinegar…..sigh~
Ya’ll have a blessed day
GR 😉 we should all do this…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3J_3mcOwdQ
if you have cats, you’ve been there……
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Debbe, yes I have.
TR, great blonde joke. Now, can someone explain today’s brunette joke?
What a find, seven Ty Cobb baseball cards.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/03/03/cache-of-century-old-ty-cobb-baseball-cards-found-in-dilapidated-house/
The last two days of A&J have hit a little too close to home. Today is one of those where I am constantly looking in the dishwasher for my utensils. Granted, I could pull out another one, but I think I remember the days of washing the dishes and never wanting to clean four spoons when I only had to clean one.
Bacon and vinegar is a good smell. Those pesky onions are not. But aromas are strong reminders of our loved ones. When I smell those things I thank God for having them in my life.