Oh not margarine....never mind.....
What kind of snake do we get in the paintbrushes?
I am sick of these...
How many other genders besides male and female do rattle snakes have?
Maybe a movie could be made in the Texas hill country set in springtime. Cue the Jaws theme...
Their heads are HUGE, indicating big venom glands. Get bit by one of those and you’d wish you were dead long before you died.
Old Jake Noshoulders hiding in the flowers.
The best way to catch one is to throw a pair of gloves into the flowers.
Then, when Old Jake is trying to figure out how to put the gloves on, you let your friend try to grab him.
As a native Texan, I was taught this valuable lesson by the time that I was six years old. Always look before you go tromping about in thick grass or in patch of wildflowers.
I have had it with these mother-effin’ snakes in these mother-effin’ bluebonnets!
Shut up for God's sake...there might be some migrant northern democrat tree hugging cancer cells listening! Let them find out the hard way!😎
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I’d catch em and fry em...
I can recommend a great spring road trip....... we made it in ‘16 and may do it again
Go roam around Texas. See the fantastic displays of bluebonnets and paintbrush, visit the 4 or 5 most famous BBQ places, visit Fredrick and take in the Nemitz/Pacific war museum and just absorb the real Texas away from the cities
It will be a truly fantastic 4 or 5 days
This will take care of the snake problem (and the flowers); just consider the flora as collateral damage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HriQjVBGq4
Guess it’s time to get rid of all the Bluebonnets. They can be replaced by gravel, easier to spot the snakes.
Whatever would we do without government to warn us that snakes are out there? I had no idea that you could bump into a rattler in Texas until I read this.
No, kidding. The HC is late to the party. Snakes lurk everywhere in TX. Found a copperhead in the guest room. It was probably one the kitties brought in. They can bring in 3 a day in the spring and summer. “Look, mama, what we brought you!” as they proudly drop live ones at my feet at this desk. We have leather gloves placed all over the house just for their disposal.
One neighbor sheepishly asked if I was being abused after hearing me yelling, “No!” Bam. “No!” Bam. “No!” one day. Nope, I was just beating a snake with granny’s cast iron skillet on the living room carpet. I nearly took a gun to it but thought a skillet was the safer bet. A cat had it wrapped around his body several times. To clarify, just beat the snake to a greasy spot and that cat immediately became an indoor cat.
Another time, had a 6 ft. racer wrapped around my feet in a figure 8 while trying to lock the back door.
Another time, was hit between the eyes by a second 6 ft. racer as it flew out of the toilet. Long story.
Was scared half to death by a rattle snake while snapping beans on the back porch.
And there were the zillion water moccasins in the river.
And...
Ah yes, the yearly spring trek in Texas to the country side just to see or walk among the fields of Blue Bonnets. Did that when living in Houston area back in the 1980s. We went west from Houston but not as far as San Antonio. Hundreds of others were doing the same thing that day. Maybe we all scared the snakes out of sight.
Ping!