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As the old saying goes "boys will be boys" is so true in my case. At the age of 16 I was 110% certified. Now to prove it I'll tell another tale of snakes. During a family gathering at my grandfather's place one summer afternoon, I and my new 14 year old girl friend and some of my cousins decided to go looking to see what we could find on the river a few hundred feet away. We jumped over the cypress knees like fools if ya can visualize that. Any way after one of those jumps I landed on a cotton mouth. Or so close I thought I had. Madder a wet hen in a hurricane I took the stick I was carrying and beat the country boy tar out of him for a scaring me in front of my girl and cousins. Of course as usual when a new trophy was claimed I had to show the grownups my latest accomplishment. I neatly curled it up next to the step at my grandfather's house to see if anyone wood even notice. Well notice is an understatement. They noticed and the first to notice was of course my very own mother. After she calmed down to ground level I explained that the snake was dead. Not to worry it was completely harmless now. A few minutes later here come the screams again. That was one tough cotton mouth. He was doing a limp kind of crawl but crawling he was and there I stood. Guilty as homemade sin I was. But now decades later I'm not feeling guilty at all. Just wondering what the grand kids are up to these days????
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keep postin these blogs man! I love them!Posted 07-19-2008 at 06:45 AM by arguy1973
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Well, if those grandkids take after their grampa, everyone is in for a wild and crazy ride
Great blogs, Norm..Posted 07-19-2008 at 08:28 AM by Miss Blue
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I could have sworn you were such a mellow guy!
I HATE snakes! Everytime I turn our outside spigot to water my plants, I have to look real hard at the pine needles and make sure there are no snakes there. They found a nest and three snakes at a neighbor's yard last month!
Posted 07-19-2008 at 09:22 AM by bibit612 
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Well now bibit you will discover that age mellows more than wine
Posted 07-19-2008 at 09:26 AM by Nomadicus
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Fabulous, you remind me of my childhood.
Same thing I did, only at the time the snake was (I thought) attacking me I had a small ax in my hand and chopped it's head off. That was about noon, so I packed the snake in a sack and took it home as a prize. Well little to know I pour the snake at my grandmother's feet, she had no idea the snake had no head, but the creature was spasming as it was. Then my grandma did everything but fainting, screaming and jumping around like I put fire to her feet.
I've learned then from my grandpa that snakes only die at sunset, even with the head chopped off.
Thank you for a nice reminisce.Posted 08-30-2008 at 03:25 PM by Cuisinette
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I'm gonna have to come back here every day to read your blogs--maybe you are one of my long-lost (not to you but to us) FL cousins on my daddy's side. Your stories sound a lot like his'n, & like things that happened at Grand-daddy's by the old country store on the old ancestral farm.Posted 10-06-2008 at 06:55 PM by Sharon Tillman
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sokay...he's dead now for sure...Posted 01-24-2009 at 01:04 PM by poconoproud
