Creating a Lake

[patrick_g]

Every time I've mowed around there this year, I've had to get the backhoe to pull me out of a wet area that I didn't know was there, or I've driven into the lake and can't get out.

Eddie

Eddie, I know you want the place looking really nice for the get together but really... I don't think it is necessary to mow the lake!

If you insist, you might want to take a look at the kelp harvesters used to mow the kelp off the SOCAL coast.

Pat

 

[EddieWalker]

Good advice, but sometimes the tractor has a mind of it's own!!!! hahaha.

I get fairly close to the edge and will mow along without any problem, but then all of a sudden, on it's own, my little tractor will decide it wan't to go swimming!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eddie

 

[john_bud]

Eddie, You would have been proud of me today!!

I was cleaning up around my son's basket ball court (the black top in front of my shop). There was an old piece of particle board that I laid on the blacktop to protect it from the tractor. So, I picked it up to put it away and there were snakes under there!! Naturally, being the big strong man that I am and having my son 15 feet away, I had to scream like a little girl, drop the wood and jump away!

Just garter snakes helping keep the mice in check, but YIKES! I don't like suddenly seeing them.

jb

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie, ... I had to scream like a little girl, drop the wood and jump away!

Just garter snakes helping keep the mice in check, but YIKES! I don't like suddenly seeing them.

jb

I've done that just about every time I come across a snake. Doesn't matter what type it is, I scream like a girl!! Of course, I've never been embarassed by this and don't have any problem continuing this tactic of scaring them away!!!!!!!!

Eddie

 

[mbrule]

Ya.... ya... scaring them away, that's it. Count me in, I scream like a girl and run every time a see a snake, no matter how small!

 

[patrick_g]

Ya.... ya... scaring them away, that's it. Count me in, I scream like a girl and run every time a see a snake, no matter how small!

There is great survival value in the aversion to snakes. Primitive people living close to nature who didn't avoid snakes often died by snakebite and didn't pass on their genes as much as the "snake avoiders" so the avoiders became the dominant group.

I may be a genetic throwback as I don't react very strongly to discovering a snake. I don't take it with absolute calm in all instances but react much less than many people do. I have studied those creepy crawlers some and am good at differentiating between our indigenous poisonous and non-poisonous varieties.

Still when encountering, for instance, a rattlesnake in or by the trail, it doesn't take me long to inspect it all I want and move away out of respect for the animal's right of privacy!

Pat

 

[Tororider]

I am not a screamer, but I have to say I think that is more of the locale where I live than being tough. Here in Michigan there is only one type of poisonous snake, the missisauga rattler, and they are pretty rare. Even if you find them, you pretty much have to step on them or poke them with a stick to get them to bite.

I am that jerk who picks up the garter and starts trying to show the people who are deathly afraid of snakes what a snake looks like up close. Again, I only have the courage to do this because I know what a garter snake looks like.

I will admit however to being a wimp when it comes to getting a hen to leave her eggs, not a big fan of being pecked repeatedly while trying to collect eggs. Ah well.

 

[john_bud]

I am that jerk who picks up the garter and starts trying to show the people who are deathly afraid of snakes what a snake looks like up close. Again, I only have the courage to do this because I know what a garter snake looks like.

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You wouldn't like my reflexes then. Having trained in martial arts for 12 years as a young man, when things jump out or are thrust un-expectedly at me, my reflexes take over. Even after 30+ years, the reflexes are still there, lurking ready to protect me and they are usually too fast for conscience control. Just ask the guy at the haunted house that jumped out and said "boo"....

jb

 

[bindian]

I've done that just about every time I come across a snake. Doesn't matter what type it is, I scream like a girl!! Of course, I've never been embarassed by this and don't have any problem continuing this tactic of scaring them away!!!!!!!!

Eddie

You guys crack me up....................................scream like a girl. What would y'all do if a Sidewinder was chasing y'all? Of all our poisonous snakes down here, the Copperhead scares me the most. They look just like a stick and blend in with pine needles. If they are not trying to get away from you, they are fixin' to strike. Rattlers give the warning and Cottonmouths show their cotton white mouth. But a Copperhead is the steathly devil.
hugs, Brandi

 

[silverdollar6]

I am not much of a screamer, more of a pooper.