Snake boots?

[clovishound]

Too late. I dropped by a local boot store this morning just to look, and ended up walking out with a pair of Rocky Snake Boots.

[Hatchdog]

I’ve owned a few pairs of Rocky hunting boots over the years and I have nothing but good things to say about Rocky.

[daytime dave]

I also have had several good pair of Rocky boots. Good luck with the snake boots.

[BrokenolMarine]

You know what's next my friend...
A picture... Get the pup to take a pic of your snake boot clad legs.
Oh, if you can toss in a snake striking, that would be great....

Just kidding, it might be rude and aim higher.

[clovishound]

Sorry, after all the weight I gained last year hanging around the house, I don't have a wide enough angle lens to get everything in frame.

[markiver54]

Sorry, after all the weight I gained last year hanging around the house, I don't have a wide enough angle lens to get everything in frame.

[BrokenolMarine]

Sorry, after all the weight I gained last year hanging around the house, I don't have a wide enough angle lens to get everything in frame.

From the knees down brother, from the knees down....



I know the feeling. I had my annual physical this past month and the doc said everything looked good.... "About your weight... ... well, with your physical challenges you can't get out and do a LOT of exercise, so I guess you need to look hard at your diet. You have lost about 15 pounds since the same time last year. But... you could stand to lose at least thirty to forty pounds."

"Come on Doc, I could stand to lose about eighty to get back to my Marine Corps weight, but that ain't gonna happen. Thirty is reasonable. I'll give er a shot."

[BrokenolMarine]

Turned the corner headed to Home Depot this morning and this guy was crossing the road. Note the diamond shaped head and the Hour Glass markings on his back. Yup, copperhead. He looks dark in the pic because he is in the shadows of the overhanging trees but he's actually fairly light colored. I only shot him with the cell phone camera. On the way home I noticed the guy in the truck behind be ran him down... He had kids in the truck... guess he didn't like copperheads in the street in front of his house.

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I didn't mind snakes around our place, but I didn't want venomous snakes around our farm in VA when we had kids at home either. IT was ILLEGAL to kill any snake in VA, even venomous ones. When I worked for Fish and Game I questioned a warden about that... pointing out that those with small children would have a real problem with it. "Then they shouldn't brag about it on Fakebook when they do it."

[BrokenolMarine]

This was crossing the road this evening when we went on our "round the block" in the Ranger. I'm not kidding when I say they are big enough to see when you are zipping along at thirty to thirty-five mph. If he sat on my iphone eleven, he'd be touching the sides. (Okay, but NOT the top and bottom. I guess he'd be an inch and bit short both directions.

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It's my understanding that they would rather run than bite and if they do, they don't hurt you that badly... but they might make Miss T hurt herself, and I have had smaller spiders leave nasty sores behind after a bite. I don't want to give this'n a chance. Like Jim Stafford, "I don't like spiders and snakes."


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When I was younger, I always thought Barbara was So Cute.

[markiver54]

Wow. The only one I've ever seen in the wild was when I lived in Southern California. Scary looking things, but kinda like you said, I've read that they are relatively harmless.

[clovishound]

Do they make spider boots?

[BrokenolMarine]

Do they make spider boots?

Yup, but they call them waders.

[clovishound]

Well, another surprise this morning. I needed to put the inserts I had transferred, back into my hunting boots. When I stuck my hand into the first snake boot, I found a rubber snake.

Kids.................

[Hatchdog]

Well, another surprise this morning. I needed to put the inserts I had transferred, back into my hunting boots. When I stuck my hand into the first snake boot, I found a rubber snake.

Kids.................

Classic!

[daytime dave]

Well, another surprise this morning. I needed to put the inserts I had transferred, back into my hunting boots. When I stuck my hand into the first snake boot, I found a rubber snake.

Kids.................

Now that's funny.

[clovishound]

I have a history with rubber snakes. Years ago I was doing some volunteer work in underwater archaeology. I was running the business end of a dredge that was sucking up sand and artifacts and depositing them in a screen box where a group of archaeologists and volunteers were sorting out the artifacts. I was finishing up a square and had surfaced. I needed to stay on the surface and keep clear water flowing through the dredge and it's flexible pipe to help keep the screen box clean while they finished up sorting the last material in the screen box.

I had brought a rubber snake with me and decided it was a perfect opportunity to use it. I slipped it into the inlet of dredge and it popped into the screen box where about 6 folks were standing in a waist deep water working the box. Everybody jumped back when it hit the screen, but one poor lady ran through the deep water and up a very high, nearly vertical bank, screaming the whole time. She was deathly afraid of snakes. I almost felt bad about it. Made for a great story when working projects with new folks.

[clovishound]

There will be repercussions!

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[BrokenolMarine]

That's funny rhat there. Fess Up... Did you have to change your shorts?

[BrokenolMarine]

I worked evening and midnight patrol by choice for years. We lived an hour away from HQ. When working evenings, my shift ended at 11pm, but I often got "caught up" at the end of the shifts, and would have to stay and finish a call, then paperwork. I'd be midnight or later leaving, then 1am or later getting home. I'd text Tina to let her know if I was going to be late. Our home sat in the middle of twenty acres, surrounded by other large lots, with the state forest across the street and the state park behind us. It was dark and quiet when I got home.

Miss T and the kids had been at Spencer Gifts one evening, (Remember them?) and bought a large Rubber Rat, about the size of a beagle. It was dark gray with ruby eyes and realistic hair molded in, and a long tail, and bright white teeth. They put it on the porch, peeking out from under the wooden bench across from the steps. The 40w porch light was just enough to make the ruby eyes glow. I got home right at 2am that morning and was tired, and ready to be done with that day. I cleared leather on that rat, and nearly pulled the trigger when I realized it hadn't moved. Great joke y'all.

[clovishound]

Did you have to change your shorts?

I will admit to being startled a tad. I don't usually spook easily. I've come up on too many critters underwater, where visibility is only a couple feet or less. Lots of looking under a log and suddenly seeing a 30-50+ lb catfish looking back at me from a foot or two away. And yes, I've come face to face with moccasins and gators. The boat drivers scared me more than anything.

This morning I had put my hand into one of the boots to get the insert out, and discovered something in the way. I pulled it out realized it was a snake. I startled just a little, as this was not what I was expecting, but almost instantly recognized it for what it was.