NotCigs refugee thread

[El Dee]

Dang it's snakes, gators or ice....

Just got back to the crib from delivering another set of tires...Sold the Ranger transmission today as well...one set of HumVee tires left from the stuff I listed...That all turned out great...

Finally today though it was cold one could feel the sun's strength increasing...It won't be long now!!!!

 

[OldtimeRocker]

Wow Bov looks like you got a little snow hehe. We have what looks too be just a little less than you do on the ground right now. We are close and we tend to get 1 or 2 ins at night. Would not surprize me if it snowed every night for the next week.

Must be colder tonight down south Fran we are only @12F right now after -16 last night.

So today i hear only one of the 11 deflated football were way off over 2lb. That's the ball the Colts had as we learned it was the Colts GM that called this one in. The story is the other 10 were just under 12.5 psi. What just under means idk. What happens if we come to find out this ONE colts ball that was 2lb or better under was deflated by the Colts.

Kinda makes you wonder what games are being played here. The 32 million dolla(dam and i thought our county commissioner make a lot o money) salary per year commissioner try to take a little heat off him, as well as some free publicity for the Superbowl. The whole thing is really starting to smell now. Lucky for us all these important people have morals and we can take them for there word. The real question is why do we put up with it time after time.

Then the groundhog bites the mayor LOL you cant make this stuff up.

vape On

 

[5cardstud]

Wow Bov looks like you got a little snow hehe. We have what looks too be just a little less than you do on the ground right now. We are close and we tend to get 1 or 2 ins at night. Would not surprize me if it snowed every night for the next week.

Must be colder tonight down south Fran we are only @12F right now after -16 last night.

So today i hear only one of the 11 deflated football were way off over 2lb. That's the ball the Colts had as we learned it was the Colts GM that called this one in. The story is the other 10 were just under 12.5 psi. What just under means idk. What happens if we come to find out this ONE colts ball that was 2lb or better under was deflated by the Colts.

Kinda makes you wonder what games are being played here. The 32 million dolla(dam and i thought our county commissioner make a lot o money) salary per year commissioner try to take a little heat off him, as well as some free publicity for the Superbowl. The whole thing is really starting to smell now. Lucky for us all these important people have morals and we can take them for there word. The real question is why do we put up with it time after time.

Then the groundhog bites the mayor LOL you cant make this stuff up.

vape On

That's called PROGRESS......or was that regress. Huh I guess I'm not the only one that gets them mixed up.
As for football it's over for the rest of the year and even though I was a Champion basketball star I'm not into that anymore either. So it looks like it's horseshoes until next year when you'll see me typing ridicules slurs about one sports figure, team, or another.

 

[5cardstud]

Avoiding the gators was easy, I just made sure the house we bought had no water near it. Rattlers are easy to avoid, but the pigmy rattlers down there have no rattles to warn you, nor do the coral snakes that love to hide under the plants in your garden. I've dispatched my share of both. Luckily for me, the coral snakes have tiny mouths and it's hard for them to get you through a good pair of gloves. You also learn real quick not to go out on the patio barefoot at night if you have mulch near...I've been nailed by scorpions more times than I can count.

Don't matter where you live, there's always something you'll need to be concerned about Tracy, be careful out on the road!!

We'll break out the bikinis tomorrow...all the way up to 38! The -10 Thursday night

You forgot to mention the Water Moccasin. When I lived in Salt Lake it was the scorpion. Always some little poisonous creepy crawly thing huh?

 

[FranC]

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Good morning Fran. Looks like the clouds and rain are melting our sunshine today. Here comes another front. Feb. is the month our temps go up and down like a pogo stick. I'm glad to see rain at this time of year. It makes for better gardening and less of a fire season.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Here's my little buddy that lives in the pond. He sounds like a ten footer when he croaks lol. He'll eventually have to leave there. He's never showed any signs of fear of humans like gators used to. I've swam and fished with gators and snakes all my life so I don't have much fear of them either. What scares me is being in a big city with two legged snakes. At least here I can look at these snakes and tell which ones to avoid.

 

[Bovinia]

Morning everyone

 

[JerryRM]

Good morning, Peeps. Our state gubmint claims that there are no poisonous snakes here in Rhode Island. Should I believe them? Hell No !!!!! LOL.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Morning Bovinia, Jerry.

Jerry you may have gotten all the Timber Rattlers out but bolo for that Northern Copperhead. The water moccasins aren't the cottonmouth (venomous) variety as far as I know.

 

[JerryRM]

Wuzz, many years ago, I stumbled upon a brown snake in my front yard. It was very aggressive and wouldn't give any ground or slither away. I had never encountered a snake that color before or that aggressive. The non-poisonous ones just quietly slither away, when they encounter a human. Anyway, I kept it focused on me, while my dad killed it with a rake. I'm pretty sure that it was a copperhead.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Glad you got it Jerry. We kind of co-exist with most snakes here. I love the black snakes and used to have one that would come up and sit beside me while I worked on my mower or in the garden. Moccasins and ground rattlers are about the only ones I kill. Moccasins get really aggressive in mating season and will attack if you come within their circle of about 20 feet. Hard to tell the cottonmouth from the others when they're swimming beside you in the river too lol. My son was fishing by the lake when he was about 14 and saw a frog he wanted to use for bait. When he reached for it a cottonmouth came out of the palmettos and went straight for him, grabbed the frog and ran back in the palmettos. Scared the heck out of him.

 

[FranC]

Evening,folks I'm not real fond of snakes.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Night Fran. Not a lot of folks are. I won't mention them again. Promise.

 

[FranC]

That's ok. I don't mind them except that they have a habit of startling me.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

They can make ya do the dance alright lol.

 

[FranC]

More like a quick jump.

 

[FranC]

 

[Bovinia]

Sleep well Fran

Yep, I'm all girl when it comes to snakes!

 

[salemgold]

Glad you got it Jerry. We kind of co-exist with most snakes here. I love the black snakes and used to have one that would come up and sit beside me while I worked on my mower or in the garden. Moccasins and ground rattlers are about the only ones I kill. Moccasins get really aggressive in mating season and will attack if you come within their circle of about 20 feet. Hard to tell the cottonmouth from the others when they're swimming beside you in the river too lol. My son was fishing by the lake when he was about 14 and saw a frog he wanted to use for bait. When he reached for it a cottonmouth came out of the palmettos and went straight for him, grabbed the frog and ran back in the palmettos. Scared the heck out of him.

Water Moccasins and cotton mouths are one and the same. We lived on a fresh water lake in Charleston and had both gators and cotton mouth right in our back yard. We co existed with them and I really don't like to kill anything if I don't have to. We did have to kill a few moccasins that got too close to the house though. Once, DH killed one and tossed it in to the water. Within seconds a gator came swimming up and snapped the dead snake right up. The lake that we lived on was quite famous for the gators. Tourists would love to come to the bank and see the gators.

"Both "water moccasin" and "cottonmouth" are common names for Agkistrodon piscivorus, according to Sara Viernum, a herpetologist based in Madison, Wisconsin. "The name 'cottonmouth' comes from the white coloration of the inside of the snake's mouth," she said. Water moccasins are pit vipers, like copperheads and rattlesnakes."

They are indeed venomous.