Recent content by retic1959

I wish I could do more for him , he's helped me innumerable times over the years .

He's still hanging in there , I miss being able to hop in the truck and go have a beer or three with him . I sent him a coupla nice pipes and a bunch of different tobacco's , it's one of his few pleasures now .

It's 20F here and it's been snowing off and on for the last 24hrs . Got me a mug of good coffee and my pipe loaded with a maple/caramel red Virginia cavendish , tasty combo . I'm happily staying put , not gonna budge .

Interrupting a man's caffeine and nicotine recharge is a heinous offense in my house , my wife knows better than to try and talk to me before then and the cat ain't getting a free pass on that either .

She's gonna become unemployed if she keeps this crap up , life sentence in kitty prison , no chance of parole .

That fits one of ours perfectly . Very large female tuxedo with a never ending appetite . She yowls outside my bedroom door the second she hears me move . The end result is me chasing her with a spray bottle in to kitty prison , a room with a water bowl and a litterbox . This scenario has...

Finally cooling off down here , 64F and low humidity , love it . Got my mug of Community coffee and my pipe loaded up with a creamy chocolate black cavendish , tasty , relaxing combo and perfect weather to enjoy it for a welcome change .

Doing some catchup and I saw this . Got two words , Hebrew National , orthodox rabbi's don't mess around when it comes to food . I've had them come in and use propane torches to scour my ovens and remove any trace of pork from them so it would be kosher for a bar mitzvah . No worries about...

Pappy knew how to clear an isle at the grocery store .

He's passionate about what he does , he sent me photo's of every baby Retic he had at the time so I could pick the one's I wanted . The show is worth watching just for the variety of animals he has . It would be fun to visit his place . This is a clip of him getting hit by a mama Retic guarding...

The only snake that's an exception to that is the Cottonmouth . They stand their ground and open that white mouth as a warning . God knows how many I caught because of that behavior . Even the Canebrake rattlers try to run from you if you give them a chance , The breeder I bought my Retic's from...

It may have been injured , they normally move smoothly and quickly if they need to . They will hiss and try to bluff their way out of a confrontation . Steadier temperament than King snakes or Rat snakes as far as being a pet . They figure out that you're not gonna hurt them very quickly ...

It's 6:20 pm and it's 107 degrees here in Shreveport , had enough of summer , It's been over a hundred in excess of 30 days here this summer . NOLA's been hitting a hundred plus too .

I just wanna remove any doubt about the animal before they go chopping it in half . They're nice critters , even had an albino Gopher snake at one point . Way more active than a boa or python though , they like to move a lot . They have a loud hiss but not much more in the way of defense . Good...

That is a Gopher snake . kept a few when I was younger before getting in to the exotics . They're even tempered animals , they make good pets , It absolutely won't bother or hurt you unless you try to handle it , it might bite in self defense then and even then it's nothing more than a few pin...