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"...

Did you ever hear this song? Click here to see Jim Stafford perform it on an old Smothers Brothers show. 

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!

Spiders and snakes have made many great appearances in movies. My favorite great snake movie scene is in Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure - watch it here - Hilarious!

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!