“Rattlers will get as big as your arm if they have any age on them.”
And here I was thinking about asking to visit you (grin).
Yes, Middle Tennessee has some of the most beautiful spots in the state. And wonderful people too.
Okay, I take it back. I love ALL of Tennessee. I especially love the people in west Tennessee, they are the salt of the earth, the kindest, most down to earth people I’ve ever encountered. But, I have to at least have hills, if not mountains, complete with snakes.
BTW, while touring Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee in the mid 1990s, on an airboat, we saw a cottonmouth snake. I had seen cottonmouths in Lousiana while living there, but thought I had outrun them when I moved back to Tennessee. Those are some creepy snakes, when you see lots of them floating (with their white mouths open) where you had planned to go fishing.
I can somehow see Mr G’s family members playing with snakes, knowing some of the adventures they’ve sought. Now I have a pic in my mind of you screaming at the top of your lungs at Mr. G’s brother’s pet snake.
Some folks over here on the east Tennessee/Kentucky border still play with snakes, only they do so on Sunday while in church (seriously, we have snake handling churches up here in my neck of the woods).
Hey now, that's wasn't me screaming, that was mother in law G screaming. I am not afraid of snakes, as I also had a brother who raised them. In fact, we had a six foot black snake stretched out on the porch of the office that I shooed off. He gets to live because he eats rattlers.
Now that other....spider thread I pinged you to....... ewwwwwww!