Shaa I may turn into the smilie who drumming. Love the hairdo.

W2 and C1 - Worms = okay Snakes = Not so much

Me and snakes have a friendly truce. I don't get in their way and they stay as far away from me as possibly.

That really happened J4...just at the end of last yearI do not like snakes, especially inside of my house. That is the second time that one has got into the house in nine years. A lot of the wooded area has been cut down around us, so maybe we won't get so many of them. Yes, two is too many!!

W2

1 is to many!!!!

C1 who really dislikes snakes

(ME) + =

g3

LOL Jill I would love to be maybe his talent will be mine as well..

As for the snake..well we dont go together either

my Environmental Science teacher my freshmen year of high school had TWO PET in his classroom so i had to deal with them for a whole year

I believe it was during 2nd qurter that i had to sit about 4-5 feet away from their tanks because we all had to changes seats so we get to know the people in our class

Then there was the dreaded science project which we had time to work on in school because some people didnt have internet acces at home..the only thing is one of the is merely 10 inches away from the tanks and since no one wants to sit there everybody runs to the other ones.

Unfortunatly for a shorty like me..well i have short legs therefore it takes me longer to get there and they all beat me so every now and then i had to sit by the snake.

Did i mention that he used to take them out of their cages sometimes? the first time he did it i nearly out the door..good thing i wasnt the only one
one time though he took it out and ask if anyone wanted to touch the snake...well what do ya know? the girl next to me LOVES them and she was right there not two feet away petting the da*n thing and talking to it

He also fed them once every week i belive.. those poor
ok so i dont really like but i dont want to SEE them get eaten by a snake either poor thing the snake wound itself around the rat and it was stuggling the whole time and then all of a sudden BAM! the neck broke and the snake slowly ate it. Some of the guys in the back were cheering the darn snake while the girls are all ewwww! OMG! Gross!
i dont see anything wrong with it i mean its nature right? i just want nature to happen.. well in nature (that made sense in my head)

Good thing i kind of liked science by then..of couse it did help that he was hot
he got another job as a Marine Biologist in Hawaii though (lucky b@$t@rd) so that was the only year we had to deal with the snake and the Hot science teacher

my brother was always playing with snakes and such when we were growing up and I had to make it seem like I liked them so I wouldn't wake up one morining with one in my bed or something equally traumatizing. but what I am really afraid of is spiders! I don't get hysterical or anything oh no that would make sense instead I kind of just freeze and think OH GOD! OH GOD! until I snap out of it and then squish them I don't really like bugs of any kind but I am trying to not show it because my daughter started copying me last summer and I don't want her to be afraid she kind of goes back and forth between liking them and being facinated and being afraid. One of our neighbors last summer gave her a really big beetle of some kind to have as a "pet" I was so not impressed and I told her to take it down to her uncle if she wanted it out of the bag it was given to her in but even my brother wouldn't touch it which says something to me. My husband came home and convinced her that the beetle was lonely for its family and they went for a really long walk, far away from our house and let it go and you know what? a week later and we had what looked to be the same beetle in our backyard, I swear I had never seen one before and now here was another one or as my daughter likes to say the same one who came back for a visit. the neighbor who gave it to her thought it was so funny because he knows I don't like them!

You know, now I have a funny story to tell. One of my friends in my study group had snakes, I think there were 3 or 4 (not sure).

We (study group) met at her house one evening, and I walked into her house, not looking around, you know how some people are (I'm one of them) that doesn't like to look at the inside of people's houses for fear that I will start comparing my horrible cleaning habits to other peoples. Usually everyone else's are cleaner than mine in my eyes.

Well, anyway, I sat down in her computer room with our other team members and began our brainstorming session, when someone mentioned the two snakes about 20 feet away from us in her living room. They were a boa and a python, both over 8 feet in length.

This however, was not what freaked me out, what freaked me out, is the aquarium sitting next to me. Ok I noticed at that point that it didn't have water but mild vegatation, then something white. Right there next to me was a two foot Albino King Snake.

I know King Snakes are harmless and eat other smaller predatory snakes, but to me a snake is a snake, and the only good snake, is a dead one. My team member, who owned the house, says to me, oh not to worry, she only climbs out when I'm cooking supper.

The darn thing pushes the top open and likes to crawl on the countertops. She then proceeded to show me the latest encounter, two small bite marks on her wrist where as she says, the thing "lovingly" reminded her that she needed to be fed.

Now at that time I had two thoughts, no maybe three thoughts in my head, but not necessarily in this order: 1) Exactly who gets close enough to one to figure out the sex of this thing (as she kept referring to it as a "She"); 2) When was the last time she had been fed (as I didn't want to get "Lovingly" reminded that she hadn't); and 3) What was the quickest and easiest way to get my assignment to go.

She and her boyfriend have some interesting tastes in animals; she had a yellow lab, a Prairie Dog (yes, one of those large field rats that lifts his head out of the sand to look around), who also liked to bite, and an African Grey Parrot - that could mimic your cell phone ring, doorbell, and voice (she was constantly calling the lab upstairs in an exact mock imitation of her boyfriends voice - the darn dog would go upstairs everytime to a response of "Good Girl" while the dog frantically looked for his master).

Anyway, needless to say from that point on, we met at a local bar. Great place to study, and enjoy adult beverages in the process.

Stauri - who has only encountered one snake in the last 7 years since moving to Texas, and that was telling someone standing about 10 feet away from her, while she instructed her children to sit in the Bluebonnets on the side of the road while she took a picture of them, that they were about 2 feet from a curled up Rattlesnake. I calmly told the children to move in the opposite direction, while their mother gauked at me in apparent irritation. After they were safely out of reach, I pointed out the snake who was hissing and rattling. The mother then grabbed both of her young children and left without her picture. Very safe action, don't you think?

Jodi,

The and I have a deal...they stay outside, and I don't bother them. They come in my house, and they die. Simple, huh? Well, I made the rules of the deal, but they must abide by them. Well, they will die anyway, since they cross where the house is sprayed. So, I'm merciful, yep... that's it, very merciful and stomp them out of their misery! Especially as we have the brown recluse and black widow in MS...as well as yucky, poisonous snakes! As for snakes, dear hubby catches and either kills or releases them where I don't know about it, or I move to the Hampton Inn with dear sons(it has an indoor pool )until is gone! Then I come home...

wren...who thinks the Hampton Inn or a similar hotel is her idea of camping! Which is fine with dear hubby who doesn't want to go camping anyway, especially with me.

What do you do? Short tent him?

who is with her sister. Holiday Inn is my Idea of camping out.

ok, i let 1 live in my bathroom.....(I don't mind them, HUBBY SCARED TO DEATH OF THEM!) But we have an aggreement. I always these little black ants (very annoying!) all over my window and in the house during the rainny season....so hestays in the window by the shower and takes care of the ants. If h were to leave the window....then he goes back outside, so far, so good!

Spider scare me senseless. We get them everyone once in a while and I totally freak. So me and Jodi and Gena's Hubby will form own spiderless society. Anyone who wants to can join

my poor hubby. is going to kill me for saying tis, but we have an agreement...I am the exterminator, bugs/ spiders ect. don't bother me!
He gets to be the wrangler.....frogs like to come in our house quite frequently and they totally creep me out, and we get a rat or mouse every once in a while in the garage. (AAHHH!!! The joys of living out in farm land!) If I see one, I will not in that room until I know it is out!!
but hubby wont go anywhere near me if he knows i took a spider or something outside and didn't wash my hands! ( I DON"T GET IT! )

G3

I used to have a couple of pet spiders..one of them was yellow-ish with dots and i put him/her in the backyard to "run around and feed" and when i went back to retrieve it..it was gone (give me a break i was 6 yrs old)...i believe i also had a pet duck and snail at one point or another, then there was the regular pets like dogs(a lot), cats and birds.. these were my pets from when i was 4-10 yrs old b4 coming to the US.

oh yea..does a Tamagotchi count? i had one of those for a while

Noooo, C1...It's because I wake dear hubby up at 2:00 a.m. to walk me down to where the bathrooms are located, because I'm scared to walk down there by myself, and no, I'm not going behind a tree, either. That's what watching scary movies will do for you. Also, if we happen to run across a snake, or what if a spider crawls in my sleeping bag and I can't see it...Let's just say that I'm just not a good camper. I dropped out of girl scouts after sixth grade, by choice. Also, despite growing up on the Gulf Coast, I do not like to swim in the gulf...I want a swimming pool! There are critters in that Gulf and in the river and other places people think they should swim! ewww! Give me my swimming pool anyday! Gypsy & Seashell are the beach bunnies in the family...that's where Sherri gets her nickname...all that hot gritty sand and hot sun does not bother them! They love it!



Dh camped enough growing up in boy scouts...of course, Pop was a den leader or whatever boy scouts have, and he would let his group raid the other groups for their snacks after lights out...as long as they didn't get caught. What can I say, dh's dad was a soldier and figured all was fair in camping and snacks!




wren...no camping for me...I'd rather go to the Hampton or Holiday Inn!

This may be possible... My family camped like this a few times when I was growing up! It could work!
But...I'd still rather have the hotel with the indoor pool...

i have never gone unless you count in Wisconsin Dells which i dont..i mean i loved it but it was "pretend" camping to me..i mean there was a store in the area where you can buy whatever you need and theres a pool right next to your "camping ground"...no offense but i call it camping for city slickers because its just not real.
I want to go once just for the experience you never know MAYBE i'll like it. But one thing is for sure if i go i will be armed with

Hello gals.
How'd we get from Mr. Spice to camping??


We used to take the girls camping all the time when we lived in Atlanta, we'd drive the 3+ hrs to get to the Smoky Mtn...BEAUTIFUL!!! And it would be dark by the time we arrived, so we'd set the girls in the car and put up the tent in record time (nowadays it's so much easier than a Brady Bunch tent)
There are no shower houses, no hot or even warm water, just freezing cold mtn water, but thankfully they had bathrooms...but they had spiders in the corners...EWWWW (I'm joing the spiderless group) anyway...

Once, when we went up there, my middle (then the youngest at 3) puked all over the sleeping bag. Poor thing, I had to take her in the bathrooms and wash her off with freezing cold water. I thought her teeth were going to shatter they were chattering so bad. Threw the bag outside of the tent (I figured if a bear really wants it, he can have it. Yes, bears walk through the campsites, ooh another fun story)

So, now we have moved up in the camping world. Our friends have a very nice 30' trailer with HEAT & A/C, 3 TV's, a microwave and toilets with NO SPIDERS!!! LOL.
Yes, yes, that's so not camping, but hey, we've been through the whole sleepign on rocks and I'm pretty much over it.

Okay, for the second story...

My oldest (7 at the time) was placing Frito's across the road and down the hill to our campsite and our friend who lives there asked what she was doing...
"I'm trying to catch a bear"

I am not a huge fan of the outside myself. I just don't how you guys do it. I guess I am too city girl. I would be like in the Parent Trap when they took obnoxious soon to be stepmother camping. I would be her!

Tracy there is not reasonable explanation for this off topic thread. We stop trying to fight it and just go with it and instead.

hubby has been bugging me for years to go camping and I keep putting him off saying at first that my daughter was too young and then that my son was too young but that excuse is running out as they are both old enough now, I will have to come up with something else as I am not a big fan of camping.

Shaa...I'll just have to remain a "city slicker" camper...and that is just fine with me!

But, you go and enjoy the experience of it!

wren

There is nothing like sleeping under the stars and falling asleep to nature's lullaby. I grew up tent camping on islands on Lake Ouachita in Hot Springs, Arkansas. We would go every weekend and tent camp, and water ski.

My soon to be ex had never been camping until last spring, he decided he didn't like it when I had a friendly encounter with a rather large racoon. Rocky (that's my name for him) came up for a chat by the fire, I had to let Rocky know that he wasn't welcome at that time to come back and visit when other campers were there. My husband didn't think it was cute and wanted to go home then. Such a city boy.

The animals wouldn't bother me it would be insects that I am not fond of.