Los Alamos and fear of snakes (living, stores, housing)

[Joy444]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

On the West Coast, the snakes listed are mostly desert snakes. There are vast areas in those states that have no dangerous snakes. No urban areas outside the desert zones have them, either. That's what I was referring to.

You may be right about that. Since I'm a librarian by education and not a herpetologist, and I have no further need to research the topic (I decided not let the presence or absence of snakes decide where I should live!), I'll just assume that you're right!

[High_Plains_Retired]

It looks as though I missed this subject when it was being discussed a few days ago so I'll not tell the story of a researcher friend who almost lost a part of his hand when he was bitten on the finger by an immature prairie rattler near Carlsbad many years ago.

[ch1]

Algiz

Thank you very much.

[ch1]

He was a curious researcher

[ch1]

Joy444

Thanks a lot

[ch1]

Thank u

[ch1]

Thank u very much

[ch1]

aries63

I am terrified even to look at the PEEC website.
Huh.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by ch1

He was a curious researcher

I've got a funny story. Years ago, there was a Cornell researcher who moved into our condo complex for the summer. He brought his college age daughter who was quite attractive, so naturally we made excuses to go to her house. Her dad was a really cool fellow and he was out there to collect rattle snakes to take him back to his lab at Cornell (we were in Tucson and he was working with people at the University of Arizona).

Anyway, one time he invited us over to play UNO (I think) and naturally we accepted since the daughter was going to be there.

We were playing at the kitchen table and only a few feet away was a cardboard box with a couple of windows with fine mesh cut into the box.

As we played UNO, at times it got pretty loud and we heard this rattling noise from the box. Yes, I was sitting about 5 feet from a box with two rattlers he had caught that day. We stayed and played, but anytime it got too loud, the snakes would let us know. Rattlesnakes can't hear, but these could feel the commotion somehow

And I do hope you get to experience Los Alamos and Northern New Mexico. Lovely place.

[ch1]

Hahaha even rattled wouldn't prevent u from gping over to see a pretty gal.