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chaelosm voice 
 (6/10/05 12:07 am) Reply |
I almost had a 'pet' snake... While cleaning up a neglected, leafy, overgrown area of a corner of my back yard yesterday, i found a very tiny baby Northern Red-Bellied snake (here's a photo of what a full-grown one looks like). It was really small, no more than 5 inches long, but that little thing was already so strong! I brought it inside briefly to show the kiddoes and considered keeping it since we have unused aquariums and gravel and heat rocks and all that junk in the basement, but when i did some reading and found that their favorite meal is snails, i realized there was *no way* this would work since my daughter considers every snail in our yard her own personal "Gary"  and i could not even begin to imagine her horror when she realized we'd have to feed snails to this creature.So, it's back in the snail-filled woodsy corner of the yard, to grow into a lovely being that will do its dastardly dining deeds far from the eyes of my snail-loving daughter. |
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metanoia7
lingering (6/18/05 6:35 pm) Reply |
Re: I almost had a 'pet' snake...
.. and you always tell these little 'day be day' stories so elegantly Karen
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Tiny Thinker 
 (6/18/05 10:12 pm) Reply |
Re: I almost had a 'pet' snake... yup |
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chaelosm voice
(6/24/05 12:22 am) Reply |
Re: I almost had a 'pet' snake... Since i can't think of an elegant way to tell you about the awful itchy poison ivy rash i've ended up with, i'll just leave that story out of my day by day recollections...  -- edit ... M unknowingly gave me a challenge, so here goes my attempt at elegance in the retelling of my poison ivy tale: urushiol Bluebird watched as the plant brushed across my skin. Now i itch day and night. 
Edited by: chaelosm voice at: 6/27/05 10:41 am |
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metanoia7
lingering (6/28/05 1:11 pm) Reply |
Re: I almost had a 'pet' snake... now that IS elegant! ... wut's 'urushiol'??  edit: never mind, i looked it up Urushiol What makes poison ivy so fearsome is urushiol, the oily sap it exudes. The stuff is so potent that a tiny quantity of it -- no more than can fit on a pinhead -- can be enough to trigger a severe reaction in as many as 50 people who happen to come in contact with it. Edited by: metanoia7 at: 6/28/05 6:23 pm |
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chaelosm voice
(7/1/05 12:35 pm) Reply |
Re: Re: I almost had a 'pet' snake... The funny thing is (in a really, not very funny at all way) that the first time i came into contact with it i had no reaction, so i figured hey, i must be one of those lucky people who isn't allergic to it ... little did i know that it takes a "first contact" for your body to develop a reaction and prepare a defense, so the next time i cleared an area where it was located i wasn't even careful because i didn't think i needed to be, and let me tell you -- it was bad ... i literally thought i'd go insane from the itching ... at one point if i could have submersed myself in a tub filled with acid and burned the top few layers of my skin off just to make the itching stop i'd have probably been out of my mind enough to do it. I can deal pretty well with pain, but that itching ... ah! I was going mad... 
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metanoia7
lingering (7/5/05 12:22 pm) Reply |
Re: Re: I almost had a 'pet' snake... well now that doesn't seem so elegant  ... but it's over for you now, at least, i hope. Never had a poison ivy reaction myself, maybe we don't have that around here
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chaelosm voice
(7/12/05 1:28 am) Reply |
Re: Re: I almost had a 'pet' snake... I'm finally better, although just this afternoon i found some more growing up a tree, and i was more frightened of it than if it had been a Copperhead - and that is no joke ... at least a snake won't bite unless provoked, but this darned poison plant will torment me if the wind blows the wrong way.  I just left it growing there and am considering buying myself one of those sealed hazmat suits before i go back to that part of the yard...
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