Snakes !!!

[Bird]

<font color=blue>all have tractors, I reckon I'd be using it just to check the mail over there</font color=blue>

Neil, about 4 years ago, I started out to the mailbox before daylight one morning to put an outgoing envelope in the box, and a skunk came out of a flower bed and headed right for the mailbox, which is in one of darkest spots on the premises. I decided that envelope could wait until daylight./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif However, I haven't seen a skunk around here in the last 3 years.

We do have a few things like fire ants, snakes, skunks, etc. but they're actually so rarely seen that I don't even think about them when I go outside, except if it's dark, and the possibility of stumbling over a skunk is the only thing I worry about even then./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Chuck52]

Jeff,

Having carefully read your description of the events, what came to mind was a Pogo strip which I would paraphrase, "You met the enemy, and he was you." /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Chuck

 

[Egon]

Neil:

That is a good thought and I appreciate the opportunity but I have reached the age where the back has long since failed and encroaching senility would not endow me with a " responsibility factor" required for a business of large magnitude.
But then again, perhaps I could sit in the shade hydrating and supervise the operation while you attended to the wealth distribution from the project.

Also I have never skinned a snake but back in my youth have skinned weasels and muskrats as a source of income but I have heard that there is more than one way to skin a snake.


Egon

 

[JoeR]

Bird reminded me of a story that my brother still teases me about. I was working near the edge of the woodline when I heard what sounded like a large wild boar stomping through the palmettos. I picked up the garden rake for defense, and tried to figure out an escape route while yelling for my brother. He comes running over just in time to see a little armadillo walk out of the palmettos.

At least I didn't fall on a cactus!!! I stood my ground! Hahahaaa!!

Joe

 

[njrqs]

<font color=blue>I started out to the mailbox before daylight one morning to put an outgoing envelope in the box, </font color=blue>

Now I really am starting to learn things about the US. You can put letters in your letterbox and the postie takes them away as well?????

If I want to post a letter I have to take it to the post office or the shiny red boxes on the street (Nearest is 10km away from me)

Did I understand this correctly?????????

 

[Jeff396]

Yes you did. Take the mail to the end of your drive, put the little red flag up and they will stop and pick it up. Very convenient!

Jeff

 

[Bird]

Yep, Neil, as far as I know, anywhere in the country you can put outgoing mail in the mailbox and the postman will pick it up when he delivers your mail. "Rural" type mailboxes have a little red flag hinged on the side of the box. It's normally horizontal and you raise it to vertical if you have outgoing mail (so the postman will know to stop and pick it up even if he doesn't have mail to deliver there that day). Of course you have to have the right amount of postage attached in a lot of areas, but things are kinda informal out here in the country. I could just put the money in the box, too, and the postman will attach the stamps to it.

A number of things are different out here in the sticks./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif The postal service encourages (and in many cases, requires) complete and accurate addresses, but out here if a piece of mail just has my name on it and gets to Frost, TX, the postman knows everyone and I'll get it. And when they have a package or something too large to fit in the box, and there's no one home to accept it, the normal thing is to leave a little paper form in the box telling you to pick up the package at the post office, but out here, the postman asked me the first day I was here whether I wanted him to do that, or just leave them on the porch (which is what I told him to do).

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Um, that snake appears to terminate in an extension cord. Did he stop to recharge?

SHF

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Easiest solution (but most expensive)................SELL THE HOMESTEAD & MOVENext solution (a little cheaper)..........Burn down the shed and build a new one.

 

[Jeff396]

Didn't say there were Javalina....said I remembered the possibility they might be out there. If I had actually heard the smelly little buggers I probably wouldn't have tripped over the cactus. My feet probably wouldn't have touched the ground more than three times to get back to the door!/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif Us city boys don't deal well with wildlife!

Jeff