2015 TENNESSEE EVERYTHING THREAD
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The way I grew up - it is considered good form if you kill a snake without puncturing the venom glands to offer it to a local if you don't want to barbecue it yourself.
Used to see jars of pickled rattle critter for sale here and there...
Also - nothing beats a good sized kingsnake for getting rid of gophers and moles.
HEXMEN in Pennsylvania sometimes use ground up snake skins for various purposes. It can be sprinkled around a garden or house to drive away rodents.
(They pick up on the smell and just leave)
Biggest snake I've seen around my place was a blacksnake about seven foot long, but it was harmless.
By contrast the most dangerous was a few baby copperheads - the young snakes don't give a partial shot of venom if they bite like an older one will. They give you everything they have when they are scared, and that is what makes little ones more dangerous than the adults.
Either way, part of the reason to destroy the jungle on the side of my place is to remove varmint habitat areas.
Used to see jars of pickled rattle critter for sale here and there...
Also - nothing beats a good sized kingsnake for getting rid of gophers and moles.
HEXMEN in Pennsylvania sometimes use ground up snake skins for various purposes. It can be sprinkled around a garden or house to drive away rodents.
(They pick up on the smell and just leave)
Biggest snake I've seen around my place was a blacksnake about seven foot long, but it was harmless.
By contrast the most dangerous was a few baby copperheads - the young snakes don't give a partial shot of venom if they bite like an older one will. They give you everything they have when they are scared, and that is what makes little ones more dangerous than the adults.
Either way, part of the reason to destroy the jungle on the side of my place is to remove varmint habitat areas.
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I have no issue with most snakes . Some are good to have around the farm .
I have also had snake skin boots years ago .
I use to play the sax in a jazz band . ( long story to that ) My sax sling was snake skin , as was my hat band .
Hope that don't show my age ......
I have also had snake skin boots years ago .
I use to play the sax in a jazz band . ( long story to that ) My sax sling was snake skin , as was my hat band .
Hope that don't show my age ......
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Disturbing , yes .
Then think of some cultures where a 12 or 14 year old is married off ....
I have 6 children .One son has 2 kids , one daughter has 1 child . I have one in college , one on drugs with his head up his rear .... and 2 younger kids at home . Married twice , hard to explain .
Then think of some cultures where a 12 or 14 year old is married off ....
I have 6 children .One son has 2 kids , one daughter has 1 child . I have one in college , one on drugs with his head up his rear .... and 2 younger kids at home . Married twice , hard to explain .
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I have one that's graduating and done signed up for college, one that's a freshman in high school, my soon to be wife has one that's graduating and a boy in middle school that calls me daddy.
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Really not close to anything. We are the home of Minnie Pearl, grinders switch. We have a McDonald's, Sonic and Subway, that's about it. I'm about 60 miles south-southwest of Nashville.
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You have 38 grandchildren? 
My God - how do you do it man...
(The Irishman in me assumes you have a BICYCLE...)
My God - how do you do it man...
(The Irishman in me assumes you have a BICYCLE...)