Sorry I had to skip out on everyone. The snake stories are "blood curdling". I've chopped a few of them to pieces with my hoe in my time, but I prefer not to have to. I guess there may be a few timber rattlers in W.Va, but I've not heard of any Copperheads. Those are nasty things we had so many of in Tenn. Cottonmouths too. I once had a tug of war with a rat snake over one of my chicks. He had it and I wanted it back. I got the chick but he got the leg. Had to dispatch the wee peep.
Hi, Nan! Just checking back before shutting down, in time to se your post.
I forgot to mention the cottonmouth mocassins in Florida. Our neighbor's teenage son died of the bite of one.
Had copperheads galore in North Carolina, one biting my cousin's husband thumb from under a hay bale.
Wanna change the subject?..:))
We, too, can pray for the D.C. Freep tomorrow ~ ~ ~