Comments on GUYANA: More sssssnake.

Ha, Z, I just read that your zodiac year is ssssss...

2008-11-21T06:35:08.530-04:00

Ha, Z, I just read that your zodiac year is ssssssssssnake, you should see me grinning now.

I'm intrigued too...'auctioneering' as a career. Interesting.

Eye skin. Oh my goodness, I wish I'd examined the ...

2008-11-21T06:32:10.311-04:00

Eye skin. Oh my goodness, I wish I'd examined the skin we found more properly now. You touched it! I can't even look at it, I wonder why the revulsion, after all, it's just a discarded piece of a critter without fangs now.

I picked it up and have put it in a long thin box ...

2008-11-20T19:02:06.294-04:00

I picked it up and have put it in a long thin box in cottonwool. It felt dry and scaly (as you'd expect!) but not unpleasantly so. It's very delicate of course, amazing that the snake sheds it all in one piece, eye-skin (ew, eyeskin?) and all.

Isn't it always the same the world over? You can ...

2008-11-18T11:58:20.762-04:00

Isn't it always the same the world over? You can be sitting there - shooting the breeze,having a great time (and you describe it divinely - I love those tartlets)and as soon as it starts to get a little dark the talk gets scary. I so sympathise - being a craven coward about virtually everything that moves.
However I have faith tht no snake is EVER going to harm you 'cos like your mum says - they like you:)

Ha! I haven't heard those stories, but the irony o...

2008-11-18T05:12:23.445-04:00

Ha! I haven't heard those stories, but the irony of living in a country with the most poisonous animals in the world doesn't get old. I've even chosen to live south of Sydney harbour as I've heard funnel webs prefer the north ;)

Shrimpy, the funniest snake stories come from Oz.....

2008-11-18T05:07:01.583-04:00

Shrimpy, the funniest snake stories come from Oz...like the one where the man held up the police with a snake when he was stopped for drunk driving.

Then there's the other story about the man who removed a bad snake and was taking it to a safe place, had it in a bag in his car...he stopped in an Aborigine town, at the traffic light...and someone swiped the bag...

Hello Z, did you touch the skin? How did it feel? I cannot, just cannot even think of touching that thing. People eat snakes!

Ugh. Snakes. Just looking at one makes my skin cra...

2008-11-17T17:16:30.822-04:00

Ugh. Snakes. Just looking at one makes my skin crawl, no rationalising non/poisonous-ness helps.

I saw a grass snake in my greenhouse. It was huge...

2008-11-17T16:35:55.858-04:00

I saw a grass snake in my greenhouse. It was huge (for a grass snake). A few months later, I found a shed skin and it was three feet long, so I hadn't been exaggerating.

I'm not so keen on poisonous snakes.

Eeee, I don't like snakes, though I did used to fe...

2008-11-17T14:02:49.197-04:00

Eeee, I don't like snakes, though I did used to feed the one we kept at the science lab!

All the years I lived in Texas I saw only one small, live snake in the yard, so I chopped its head off with a spade, took it to my neighbor and he said I shouldn't have done that - it was only a harmless grass snake. Oops.

Cadiz, I wonder if anyone has a rattlesnake as a p...

2008-11-17T13:12:27.752-04:00

Cadiz, I wonder if anyone has a rattlesnake as a pet over there. Poisonouse or not, I can't imagine having one as a pet, those things belong in a hole, BURIED.

Zooms, I'm usually armed with a rake, please tell me that's good. I'm not sure about the cutlass, I might end up chopping my own foot. I wear long boots and long sleeves and I can run really really fast. Oh, I should've mentioned that this man's house is grey and black from lack of cleaning, it's not lack of paint that makes it look so bad...it's grunge.

Sab, you would be very welcome to a tea party here. As for snakes, they all bite, I'm sure they all do even if they're not all poisonous.

yeah, i think it makes a big difference about want...

2008-11-17T12:35:33.181-04:00

yeah, i think it makes a big difference about wanting a pet if you're not constantly hoping that animal isn't curled up in your bed or jumping out at you from the fusebox.

trust me, if we had those issues here, nobody would be wanting snakes as pets.

GG,I know that in Guyana you have the poisonous ki...

2008-11-17T12:13:58.264-04:00

GG,I know that in Guyana you have the poisonous kinds so I only hope that you have something like a big forked stick and a cutlass to hand.

I think that snake is playing with you though and saying
'Look. I was here and I didn't do you nothin'
hee hee.
Of course Big T doesn't stop to ask question, not that we have poisonous snakes here, if it slither, it dead.

oh for a tea party as you so delightfully describe, which reminds me, Christmas is coming and we have no paint, oh dear.

Best bones? i LOVE it.

Snakes? If it's guaranteed not to be poisonous I'l...

2008-11-17T11:49:12.744-04:00

Snakes? If it's guaranteed not to be poisonous I'll hold it but I wouldn't want one for a pet. However, I do appreciate the difference between seeing one in a zoo and living where they lurk in the wild. I do hope you never meet one in your garden.
I love the sound of that tea party - made my mouth water.