Survival series

greetings readers. summer has been a blast, a real heatwave here , 39 days of 90 + temperatures.
today is saturday august 7th. penny's birthday is in two days and i had to be creative this year
due to lack of funds. i made her a very nice web belt so she can carry her new duluth pack
she got for her ballooning . she wanted a GPS system, but unfortunately it were not in the
budget this year.
HYDRATION : water is the best. sweet stuff only drags you down. Heat cramps? mustard sandwiches
pickle relish and bananas and believe it or not raspberries...razzleberries are good any time..

so im getting ready for more stuff... medically speaking. my legs seem to be breaking out again with this yuck
its a matter of time before ill get an infection again and lose more skin. but im not going to let it get me down.
Staph and strep infections can only kill you once....

this leads me to a little story that happened to me last night. Beebop, my female black laborador retriever
has this problem. She doesn't like snakes , especially big ones . last night she was outside going completely berserkers
and i knew from the tone of her barking there was a snake in her area. we've had a problem this year (well for a few years
in fact, with various snakes , black snakes, copperheads, cotton mouths and massasaugas (cane brake rattlesnakes) and one
coral snake that was in a pine tree out back . i loaded up the shotgun and grabbed the big lantern and found she had treed a very
large blacksnake in her tree. and when i say large, i mean five feet long and a head as big as my fist and as big around as a motorcycle tire
now ive seen big snakes here . i got nailed by a big blacksnake years ago on my left shoulder as i went to unreel the garden hose i have
wrapped around a tire rim hanging on my electrical service pole. i about shot my pants when it bit me on the shoulder. shot is shit with one O
for those in the know , and snakes do have needle sharp teeth and sixty pounds per square inch bite pressure and it bled a lot. i still
have a nasty scar from it. so ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY. i don't take chances even though the blacksnakes do keep the rats down.
i fired two shots with the 410 knowing if i didn't , the dog would have kept making noise until the big snake was out of her territory. so i killed it
the snake . today ill skin it and tack it up and dry the skin and maybe use it sometime. now the copperheads have made a nest out front in the drainage pipe under the road . big old chunks (what they call them here because their heads are triangular and chunky ) maybe
ill get a few of them and skin them and use the skins for covers on knife sheathes ill be making this fall...until next time ...adios