OT,, snake!!

My buddy has had his corvette stored here in Mansfield for like for ever. Sent me a check to have it towed to my side yard/field so he and load it up and get it out of here. Once he drives down from Minnesota with the trailer for it.

Anyway, met the wrecker driver down at the storage yard where the car has been for like 4 years, under a shed but in the wide open. Dirty like hell. Had a heck of a time getting the door unlocked and when I did finally it was the passenger door.

Got in and finally got into the driver seat to release the brake and put it in neutral,, That was when I noticed the dammed snake skin in the floor board !!! JEEZE<, I hate snakes in enclosed places. Got that pop out T top open in record time and out I went!!!

Finally got it pulled out of the storage space with me reaching down through the T top to steer it onto the wrecker float. Told the driver he was going to have to get in if he wanted something else moved.. D**med I hated the thought of me being in that little confined space with a snake.. When we got it here, opened the hood and there were two more snake skins there... Jeeze,, hope he gets this thing out of here soon, I hate that though.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't kill just every snake I see, but having been bitten in the past, I absolutely draw the line at being confined with one!!!

I remember when I was a kid and I used go with him into the woods in the Allegheny Mountains where he supervised the logging crews. As a kid, I was really impressed to see thos cutter and "cat skinners" slap the hoods of their vehicles at night before leaving for home. I learned why right away; rattle snakes would crawl up on the block to get warm in the fall and spend the day there.

Same house and the wife walks out the front door and there was about a 6 footer hanging on the mountain stone near the front door bell. She had a fit. We moved shortly thereafter.

On my farm i9s a different type of snake. Had it since 99 and killed 2 copperheads, 2 rattlers, and 3 cottonmouths there. I'm always aware of what i do there. I never hook the bush hog by standing on the ground near it. I always stand on the deck.

After we bought our property we got a single wide mobile home and had a well and septic system put in and set up a homestead until we could build a house. I was contented living in the mobile home. I built a nice deck front porch with an awning cover over it; underpinned it with cinder blocks and was happy as could be.

One day when I was at work and my wife and two small sons were at home, a small snake got inside the mobile home. My wife became hysterical and left the mobile home and went to her parent’s house until I got home. I killed the snake and that was that.

However, my wife set in on me to build a house and get rid of the trailer; so, my idea of saving up the money to pay cash for the house was out the window. I had to apply for a mortgage loan to get started on the house or get a divorce. It didn't matter that a snake could possibly get inside the house as well.

Rick