Had a king snake wrap around my leg as a youngster.......never recovered.
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Nice. Those are good snakes, they eat baby copperheads.
Last year when I cleaned out my shed I found one in the very back corner behind almost the last thing I moved (in other words I had been in the same 10x10 shed with it for a couple hours). He was a bit indignant about being kicked out and kept striking at the rake I was trying to move him with. Finally managed to kind of fling him out the door but he went airborne and landed in some branches overhanging the yard. So for the rest of that afternoon I had to keep in mind that he was up there. I'm still a little wary in that area of the yard even though it was a harmless black snake.
Really? I know they eat rodents, which is good for my situation, but had no idea about.
14th kid on the way. Four of them post-vasectomy.
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/antonio-cromarties-wife-says-shes-pregnant-14th-child-165725005.html
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/antonio-cromarties-wife-says-shes-pregnant-14th-child-165725005.html
I hope that vasectomy came with an insurance policy if it didn't work, or at least a money back guarantee. Dude's gonna be broke paying for all those kids.
So the story itself isn't that weird here, it's apparently a domestic homicide: wife shoots husband. But the guy owned and ran the Serpentarium in Wilmington and was a semi-famous snake expert. We toured the place last fall with some friends of ours to get the kids out of the beach house on a rainy day. @Raising Heel would've loved it.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20170513/serpentarium-owner-killed-in-saturday-shooting
We met that couple and chatted with them several times. Seemed perfectly normal. My wife and kids were regulars there during our homeschooling yrs.
I got a kick out of the info signs. Every other one was about how venomous this particular snake is, and that Dean had survived being bitten by one. I think he'd been bitten 13 or 14 times (and that's only the venomous ones).
There is no such thing as a "good" snake. Any snake I see outside my house is guaranteed to be dead as soon as I see it, by any means necessary and no exceptions.
I don't GAF. I hate them.A garter snake is no more of a threat to you than a lizard, ya pansy.
Dammit.
No joke, I take an energy shot every morning (200 mg caffeine), and often will run out and grab a Starbucks DoubleShot around lunchtime (400 mg caffeine), and some days will grab another energy shot around dinner. Average daily caffeine intake is anywhere between 600 - 1,000 mg.
If I don't post for several days at a time, I guess you'll know why.
Dammit.
No joke, I take an energy shot every morning (200 mg caffeine), and often will run out and grab a Starbucks DoubleShot around lunchtime (400 mg caffeine), and some days will grab another energy shot around dinner. Average daily caffeine intake is anywhere between 600 - 1,000 mg.
If I don't post for several days at a time, I guess you'll know why.
If it makes any difference, I hardly ever drink sodas or actual energy drinks...the energy shots I go for are pure coffee / espresso.
https://www.hsn.com/products/forto-strong-coffee-energy-drink-12-pack/7973087
https://www.hsn.com/products/forto-strong-coffee-energy-drink-12-pack/7973087
Plants know when they are being eatenhttp://www.businessinsider.com/plants-know-they-are-being-eaten-2014-10
I wonder how many people are now just gonna starve themselves to ensure they don't hurt the plants' feelings.
I'll let you know after I send that article to every vegetarian and vegan I know.
“Technically it’s not even my dolphin vagina mold. I was carrying it for someone.”
Bison survives being scalded in hot spring. Outruns bear. But is then located and put down by rangers "due to its burn wounds." What a week.
@TarHeelNation11 How long do you think Ed Yong giggled at his desk about actually getting to publish that line?
I don't know who that is, so I hesitate to speculate.
If his maturity level is anything like mine, though, probably a-hwile.
NC Police find $500M poppy field . .
From the article linked:
May 26 (UPI) -- Catawba County, N.C., sheriffs officials said a man immediately admitted he was growing one acre of opium poppy plants to a deputy who knocked on his door investigating another case.
Cody Xiong of Claremont, 40 miles north of Charlotte, was charged with manufacturing a Schedule II drug and opium trafficking, each a felony. The sheriffs office reported the man was growing $500 million in opium poppy plants on his property.
"One of our narcotics investigators came to the house looking for something else. When he knocked on the door, the guys said, 'I guess you're here about the opium,'" Sheriff Coy Reid said.
Authorities said the opium plants, used to make heroin, were growing in rows in a field behind Xiong's home.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/05/26/North-Carolina-police-find-500M-poppy-field/3751495797553/
From the article linked:
May 26 (UPI) -- Catawba County, N.C., sheriffs officials said a man immediately admitted he was growing one acre of opium poppy plants to a deputy who knocked on his door investigating another case.
Cody Xiong of Claremont, 40 miles north of Charlotte, was charged with manufacturing a Schedule II drug and opium trafficking, each a felony. The sheriffs office reported the man was growing $500 million in opium poppy plants on his property.
"One of our narcotics investigators came to the house looking for something else. When he knocked on the door, the guys said, 'I guess you're here about the opium,'" Sheriff Coy Reid said.
Authorities said the opium plants, used to make heroin, were growing in rows in a field behind Xiong's home.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/05/26/North-Carolina-police-find-500M-poppy-field/3751495797553/
