SNAKE

[shark]

I was at the pc and looked out my window there's a snake looking at me I was on the phone at the time talking to relatives back in Ind and screamed LOL They hollered "what's going on somebody break in ? "
I hollered "snake-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" I hang up the phone (husband is gone) run to the garage and grab the hoe and run out to the front walk it's slithering off to the side of the house I gave it a good whack and split it in half then took the head off figured that would give it the coup de grace. kept the body laying there so somebody can tell me what kind it was.
black and greyish and like no more then a foot long.
don't guess it was a cobra or a rattler hahahhahah
sheesh ! what next.

[sj]

LOL, shark, probably a harmless grass snake. But, you can't be too careful around here. I have heard of what seems to me to be an above average sighting and killing of rattlesnakes. Have no idea why 'cept wet winters and springs seems to bring an abundant harvest of wildlife of all types.

Had a friend step out of his pickup at his farm recently and as soon as hit foot hit the ground, a rattler struck the top of his boot. Boot and friend survived, rattler did not.

[shark]

I read something the other day in Globe about a man and snake can't remember how it went now. LOL
Now, I'll be afraid of snakes in my bed and in my commode when I squat hahahahhaha

[shark]

p.s. by the time I tell my tale the snake is a African black mamba or a python hahahhahahahah

[sj]

Shark, a few years ago, I was in Australia visiting with a couple who had recently retired from their ranch in the outback. Over dinner, the conversation turned to the lady talking about her first days as a bride in the outback. She said, "My hero swept me off my feet and carried me out to this fiendish ranch where I had to carry a shotgun everywhere I went."

"A shotgun," I asked....

"Yes, every room in the house and outside." she replied.

"Why?" was my question.

"Snakes," she said, "The most poisonous in the world are here."

"Oh," I replied and returned to my rack of lamb.

[Old Rip]

Australia has the most of the deadliest venemous snakes on earth. The so-called "fierce" snake found in the inland part of Australia has venom many times more powerful than any other snake like the Mamba or Cobra.

I am fascinated by a couple of African variety venemous snakes- the Black Mamba and the Gaboon Viper.

Speaking of Australia, I remember when the crocodile hunter found a fierce snake and let it crawl through his shirt sleeve around his torso and out the other sleeve. I can just hear him now - "Isn't she a beeauuuty!!"

[shark]

ewwwwwwwwww I don't like the looks of those things.
I got a big fat frog hanging around too, but, I've let him live he eats flies and I got plenty of them hanging around the doors so he can go forth and prosper as Spock says. LOL

[bluewest]

That's probably not a frog but Bufo speciosus a Texas toad.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Toad

[west-texan]

Back in like July between my 6th and 7th grade years.

3 or 4 of us were out in the alley behind our house blowing up firecrackers.

And we found a big dead frog or toad that was all bloated up huge.

I tried to blow up some firecracker underneath it, but it didn't even dent it.

Then this guy went over and stomped on it.

Its side burst open, and the frog was completely crammed full of june bugs.

Like it had died from gorging on the bugs.

[phantom]

Now that's gross.

[shark]

bluewest:
I looked at that website, but, this frog has a real broad forehead like those bulls what U call 'em ---brama, bama , whatever.
I call it the Big John of frogs LOL