Snake Brake

[StoneHeartFarm]

JimI

Makes me think of the time I was checking out a mobile home that had a fuse box on the pole outside. Opened the door of that box and there sat a great big flying squirrel. Don't know how the heck he got in there, but I closed the door and let him have his privacy. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

SHF

 

[Jag]

JimI, a blue racer.... I have not heard that since I was a kid... I remember well my grandfather laughting so hard while we were riding horses at his old dog chasing a snake in the field and saying "did see h'm chasing that blue racer.....

 

[jinman]

Is that "Hoop" snake one that goes round and round, or one that you can't tell if it's comin' of goin'? I figure it must have been a hot snake. Just think how hot it gets inside a brake drum when you step on the brakes. I have a 1/4 mile sloping drive to my lake, and most of the way, I keep my foot on the brake. I guess "some like it hot" could be applied here.

JimI

 

[jinman]

Wow! I've seen where a rat has chewed into a pvc conduit and then made a nest inside beside the wires, but never anything as big as a squirrel. Did you ever find out how he got in there? Hey, maybe we should start a thread call "Animals in Unusual Places" about the funniest places/situations we have seen animals. It might be fun./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

JimI

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

JimI

Never figured out how he got there. Couldn't see any obvious holes. But he was darned lucky there wasn't any power to that box, because he had his feet firmly placed on the lugs. There used to be quite a few flying squirrels around here about 10-12 years ago. Now, we hardly ever see them. But I suspect it runs in cycles, I can remember them being real common when I was a kid. Or, maybe my brain runs in cycles and I only notice them once in awhile.

SHF

 

[ERNIEB]

The hoop snake was a rural legend, an old wives tale.
My Dad told me this yarn when I was a kid. The hoop snake when disturbed would take it's tail in it's mouth, form a hoop, and chase you by rolling after you. My Dad grew up in the depression, and dust bowl of Oklahoma. He had a sackfull of stories like this.

Ernie

 

[jinman]

Hey! That's right, Ernie. I had forgotten that story. It went along with the horse that stepped on a nest of coachwhips and they wrapped around his legs and beat him to death with their tails. Good stuff!!!!

JimI

 

[jinman]

Now let me see....flying squirrels in power boxes...feet on hot lugs...seeing less and less of them...hmmm. Hey! Do you think they are commiting suicide?/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

JimI

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

JimI

When I moved into this house, I re-wired the whole thing just on GP. Good thing I did, too, because there was a nice bare spot in the wires in the attic, right next to a little squirrel skeleton. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Next time I find one in an electrical box I'll have to listen to see if its singing "You light up my life." /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

SHF