tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post5229607030703781621..comments2023-07-06T09:03:00.051-05:00Comments on K. Z. Snow: I'm out of the garage!K. Z. Snowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01373906799954038740noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-25054945949217969782010-09-08T00:36:43.165-05:002010-09-08T00:36:43.165-05:00Good thing your current dogs didn't try this. ...<i>Good thing your current dogs didn't try this. :)</i><br /><br />No kidding, Val! I think the little girl, Luna, was tempted -- she has some terrier in her -- but was too befuddled.<br /><br />I LOVE turtles (and frogs, too). And I absolutely agree they have expressive faces.K. Z. Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373906799954038740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-82832829194762937082010-09-07T23:47:31.635-05:002010-09-07T23:47:31.635-05:00Tam: I never would have thought a snake had a faci...Tam: <i>I never would have thought a snake had a facial experssion but I'd swear he did.</i><br /><br />I bet he did! My reptiles (turtles) convey a lot with their scaly little faces. <br /><br />KZ: bull terrier -- shaking snake -- body fluids -- ick! Good thing your current dogs didn't try this. :)Average Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03955137026396047753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-91060611127277812822010-09-07T21:59:05.520-05:002010-09-07T21:59:05.520-05:00check again!check again!wren boudreauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026047300425537095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-75173248982439597742010-09-07T21:25:08.257-05:002010-09-07T21:25:08.257-05:00Wren!
No!Wren!<br /><br />No!K. Z. Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373906799954038740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-18439135442427326782010-09-07T17:52:00.657-05:002010-09-07T17:52:00.657-05:00Ew. Just ew.
It took me a while to understand j...Ew. Just ew. <br /><br />It took me a while to understand just why you were in the garage. Glad you can renew the plates. I hate doing those sales by my lonesome. So I stopped doing them.<br /><br />I wish I had some interesting snake tale for you. But alas, am snaketaleless.<br /><br />P.s. did you get my email, woman?wren boudreauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026047300425537095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-80213792492287703202010-09-07T14:46:45.154-05:002010-09-07T14:46:45.154-05:00Hi, Val. Snakes really are quite beautiful creatu...Hi, Val. Snakes really are quite beautiful creatures. And if a "bullie" can help keep down the rodent population (especially the damned moles that've been eating all my lily bulbs), more power to them! I just don't want my dogs to be chomped by one.<br /><br />I once had a bull terrier/collie-ish mix who was a fearless snake killer. He'd grab one in the middle, regardless of size, and shake it like crazy. Effective, but producing a very ugly sound...and even uglier sight, once he loosed the snake's bodily fluids. :-/K. Z. Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373906799954038740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-48187547176648532052010-09-07T14:38:06.961-05:002010-09-07T14:38:06.961-05:00Tam, I had my usual reaction to one of your storie...Tam, I had my usual reaction to one of your stories. :-DK. Z. Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373906799954038740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-60171685934557071662010-09-07T14:36:14.256-05:002010-09-07T14:36:14.256-05:00Yikes, Chris. And to think I regularly went campi...Yikes, Chris. And to think I regularly went camping along the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers and never gave rattlesnakes a second thought!<br /><br />I've seen a few whopping big snakes in Wisconsin over my lifetime, but not frequently. They don't particularly frighten me, just make me instantly go "zero at the bone," as Emily Dickinson wrote.<br /><br />Here's something I just learned. Poisonous snakes have elliptical eyes; nonpoisonous, round eyes. And the fox snake, another midwesterner, does lift its tail and shake it menacingly, although it, too, is a constrictor. So keep that in mind.K. Z. Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373906799954038740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-5579553247680584832010-09-07T14:17:35.298-05:002010-09-07T14:17:35.298-05:00It was quite funny Val. I'm yelling at her to ...It was quite funny Val. I'm yelling at her to put the frog across the road and the snake stopped and I'd swear to god you could see the little thing frown and his brains is going "I KNOW there was a frog here. I smelled it. Where the hell did that thing go?" After a minute of thinking he finally slithered off to another camp site, but I never would have thought a snake had a facial experssion but I'd swear he did.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15495571402942021799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-14641084030609883172010-09-07T13:00:14.179-05:002010-09-07T13:00:14.179-05:00That's a gorgeous snake in the photo. And Tam,...That's a gorgeous snake in the photo. And Tam, I love the story of your kid saving the frog from becoming snake food!Average Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03955137026396047753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-47221412012695587562010-09-07T12:00:50.999-05:002010-09-07T12:00:50.999-05:00Ugh. That's why I hate garage sales. Work, wor...Ugh. That's why I hate garage sales. Work, work, work. Glad you earned some money though. <br /><br />As for snakes? Ummm. Heebie jeebies now. I don't care if it's protected, I'd be "encouraging" it to move on somewhere safer, for me. I have a snake phobia although it's gotten better with time, but I would have run like hell and left my family to die. LOL One time camping I was up on top of the picnic table while the kid ran in a circle with the snake slithering around trying to find the frog it had spotted for lunch which was now in my kids hands so she could save it. Sigh. A small one too, perfectly harmless but .... Wimp? Why yes I am. :-)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15495571402942021799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677034.post-60297423636984565042010-09-07T11:40:38.904-05:002010-09-07T11:40:38.904-05:00Glad the garage sale is over! And glad that it was...Glad the garage sale is over! And glad that it wasn't a rattlesnake. I've seen a couple of rattlers in Minnesota, along the Mississippi. It's weird - you hear the rattling sound, and your primitive brain takes over and suddenly you are the hell outta there, wondering what happened.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12959009113795804133noreply@blogger.com