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I've had a bad night. First, in my rush to put laundry away, my feet got caught in the dust ruffle, down I went on both knees. Hard.

Only minutes after that, I open the front door and there is a freaken snake! I slammed the door and screamed so loud and long, my daughter came running. It's a wonder the neighbors didn't call the cops! It was at least 3 feet long. We looked on the internet and my daughter and I both think it was a copperhead. I called Al at darts and made him come home long enough to chase it away. :wah:

Good grief! Poor yourself a nice glass of wine and call it a night!

oh Peg..hope your knees are ok...ouch!!!

Peg:-4

Aussie Pam , Wonder Wendy and I are on our way to wrassle that damn snake. We're mud wrasslers you know and proud of it. Don't you worry there missy...we'll wrassle that auld snake down and cook him up for tucker. Okies a cowboy and should know a good recipe for snake. Let's ask him:wah:

Put your feet up luv and have a glass of pinot noir that I've just gotten from my cavernous wine cellar. There's snakes down there all the time so I know how to handle them.

Feeling better:D

I'll feel better just as soon as you all get here and kill that snake. My son has a snake as a pet but it's in an aquarium so I can deal with that. Wild snakes, in my house, I cannot deal with.

Awww Peg, I hope tomorrow is a better day for you....I'm afraid I will have to leave the snake wrasslin to Kathy and Pam, I'm deatly afraid of them, we have copperheads around here too...eek...I'm strickly a mud wrestlin' kinda girl....

I hope your knees are better.....:-4:-4

Peg, we'll be there soon. I just sent an SOS to Aussie Pam and I'm now looking for a recipe for snake fritters.

Just keep calm.....the snake is more afraid of you.....huummmm...I think????

We'll be there soon Peg...keep breathin slowly......

Ed from Virginia asks:

Are Copperhead snakes edible?

Devin Says:

That's a tough question and to answer it I went to one of North Texas' foremost herpetologists: "Bayou" Bob Popplewell of Bayou Bob's Brazo River Rattlesnake Ranch. Here's what he said:

"Yep, they are as all snakes really are....BUT it is like eating robins when you like doves! The coppers are small diameter snakes and don't have enough on them usually to keep a 'bird' alive - pardon the pun! Basically, any snake can be eaten just fine without any probs at all - some would taste better than others since some have oily skin and others don't....just like a dove and robin would taste somewhat differently too! No harm in eating them at all as some folks want to believe. A grown man would likely have to eat a dozen to get enough for one meal....ha! True! Hope this helps out!"

Thanks, Bob!

Here's a recipe that Peg can cook for hubby tomorrow night:

"Peg's Snake Bites"

Scale ingredients to servings

1 copperhead snake

1/2 oz Malibu® coconut rum

1/2 oz Southern Comfort® peach liqueur

1/2 oz amaretto almond liqueur

1 splash sweet and sour mix

1 splash 7-Up® soda

1 splash grenadine syrup

Mix equal parts of snake, Southern Comfort, Malibu Rum, an Amaretto in a mixing tin over ice. Add a splash or sour mix, grenadine, and 7-up. Shake well. Can be served over ice or as a shot.

Hi Peg,

First off I'll have to say I just hate tripping on things :-5 Puts me in the worst mood-for the whole day (or night)- and causes me to lose concentration and I trip even more :-5

Maybe that snake was a Bull snake? I saw one once and it was HUGE! Makes a terribly scary noise too.

Hope tomorrow is better. Just know you aren't alone.

Adios :-6

LMAO Kathy. Now that drink, without the copperhead, does sound good.

I'll have to look to see what a bull snake looks like Water. I've never heard of it.

And remember the little ditty for the bad ones or the okay ones:



"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow... red touch black, venom lack..."



:)



(This is if you run into something you don't know if it's a coral or a king!)



:):)

Good way to tell Val. Peg get the shovel and lop off its head problem solved.

[QUOTE]And remember the little ditty for the bad ones or the okay ones:

"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow... red touch black, venom lack..."



(This is if you run into something you don't know if it's a coral or a king!)[/QUOTE]

Way over Down Under - I heard the call !!! And have come to larn that darn snake some manners!!! I'm so sorry about your sore knees Peg!! Kathy's copperhead recipe should do the trick, though we'll ditch any non alcoholic ingredients. Your rhyme won't work here, Valerie - red bellied black snakes don't make good friends in the Aussie bush.

We sometimes get snakes in the garden. Mostly they are just migrating from one point to another and we let them get on with it. But if they hang around, try to come in, argue with pets or if you have small kids.. it's another matter. My grandma - a fierce countrywoman - regularly put paid to unwelcome, slithering visitors. And I'm happy to carry on the family tradition and clobber the critter but good.

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My fellow warrior Pam....ya always hear my call. Remember the time when all the Rogues sailed away on a venture and left me behind. I called from the Jersey Shore, and you hear my call while playing the tin whistle on the lovely sailing boat. Thank Goodness you returned for me.. WOW...such adventures.:sneaky:

Pegs hubby chased that snake away, and she's safe and happily drinking her cook snake drink.

Ahhhh, life is good.

Life is good, Kathy!!!!! And we're overdue for some shared adventures, I think.

:sneaky:

Now you've got me feeling nostalgic... Mmmmmm

Roguery is dead! Long live Roguery!!!

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valerie;686063 wrote: And remember the little ditty for the bad ones or the okay ones:



"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow... red touch black, venom lack..."



:)



(This is if you run into something you don't know if it's a coral or a king!)








this seems to make more sense to jimbo













if its a snake run for feks sake





:wah::wah:

I understand funeral rites are in order for the now-deceased reptile.

I revisited one of Sydney's northern beaches recently (hadn't been back there since childhood summer holidays) and came upon the most amazing sea creature I'd ever seen, apparently washed up in a storm, but still very much alive. It was a yellow bellied seasnake. In the words of the late Steve Irwin - beautiful but deadly.. crikey!!

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CARLA;686065 wrote: Good way to tell Val. Peg get the shovel and lop off its head problem solved.


No way am I getting close enough to a snake to kill it!

jimbo;686094 wrote: this seems to make more sense to jimbo













if its a snake run for feks sake





:wah::wah:


That's what I did. I ran as I screamed. :wah:

valerie;686063 wrote: And remember the little ditty for the bad ones or the okay ones:



"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow... red touch black, venom lack..."



:)



(This is if you run into something you don't know if it's a coral or a king!)



:):)


I didn't hold the door open long enough to see what color touched what. :wah:

AussiePam;686092 wrote: Life is good, Kathy!!!!! And we're overdue for some shared adventures, I think.

:sneaky:

Now you've got me feeling nostalgic... Mmmmmm

Roguery is dead! Long live Roguery!!!


Life is good Pam and so were all our good times as Rogues....Really miss those days and love your memory pictures. Wow, the wall paper:wah:

Pam, That is an ocean snake?????Wow, you grow them big in Australia. It is beautiful.

How are your knees, Peg?

Kathy - me too!! Think my favourite caper was the Klondike, though our Jamaica adventure was pretty cool too. Grin. The picture I posted shows a much larger version of the sea snake. The one I saw was about eighteen inches long and slim.

Last night I watched the blood moon eclipse. Totally awesome. (Found the photo on google, looked just like this though, from my front yard)

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oh no I hope you are feeling better now.

that cocktail sure sounds nice :p

Glad your ok, but hey , when it comes to snakes, killem , I say, killem all!!

if I said I hate snakes it would be an understatement. And yes I heard you scream:wah: