To: brigette
We had them in a delapidated barn in Perry, OK. (although I never was bit)....but came close when some big scorpions slide out of my drawing pad!!! I also had a black widow hanging inside my mail box and accidently looked instead of grabbed my mail....I was lucky! How I ever survived OK--I will never know....
64 posted on
05/09/2003 8:00:11 PM PDT by
savagesusie
(An Ann Coulter fan!)
To: savagesusie
Here in S. Arkansas, I was weeding in my garden and caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye of something crawling up the right back of my t-shirt. It was a large black widow. Thank God I shook it off. We get those things (and recluses) all the time. Fortunately they are not very aggressive. One of the earlier posters is right - chickens help keep their numbers down.
To: savagesusie
"How I ever survived OK--I will never know...."
My first wife grew up in eastern OK, I took her back there to visit and we were both nearly eaten alive by ticks. I grew up in SC and we have ticks but they never did the damage that the OK type did. I was bitten near the waistline by one tick which left a black circle that was visible for the better part of a year before it finally went away. We went fishing several times while there and were constantly seeing poisonous snakes. On the way back home I was laughing and singing, "Oklahoma where the ticks are thicker than a fog".
246 posted on
05/12/2003 7:43:02 AM PDT by
RipSawyer
(Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
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