Sunday, April 15, 2012

I don't like Spiders and Snakes!

This silly song was popular when I was a kid - I don't like spiders and snakes - by Jim Stafford. 

And so we took a stroll
Wound up down by the swimmin' hole
And she said, "Do what you want to do"
I got silly and I found a frog
In the water by a hollow log
And I shook it at her
And I said "This frog's for you"
She said, "I don't like spiders and snakes"...


I'm thinking about this song and Spiders and Snakes because it is the season!

 
I saw my first snake of the season today - lucky for me and unlucky for the snake, it was dead in the road. 

Living with woods and the river for my backyard, I get all sorts of spiders. We have an ongoing battle! They weave delightful webs on my windows, and I tear them down.

The coolest snakes I ever saw were at the tree farm a few years back. I was carrying my bucket of fertilizer, going from tree to tree, up and down each row, from field to field - you get the idea. In two different fields I saw snakes wrapped around the trunk of 5-6' tall trees, near the top, sunning themselves. At first I thought that the farm boys must have put a fake snake in a tree to scare me (since they knew I am petrified). Bravely I went in for a close look, the snake stuck his forked tongue out at me, I dropped my bucket, and ran screaming and running from the field. After I recovered (my wits and my bucket), I continued on, looking all the while for more snakes in that position. Don't you know I did come across another one perched in that same fashion. It makes me wonder how many snakes I had passed over the years in the same place, but since I was looking down, I just never saw them!

Another odd snake story I heard was of a gal that opened her dishwasher and had a family of snake babies in there! YIKES!


So, as we enter Spider and Snake season, what good stories do you have to tell of your adventures with them?

I am a Putnamaniac who does not like spiders nor snakes, although they do serve nature's purpose!
 


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