[SOC] I think I messed myself...

[Rob Matherly]

I was walking through my yard a few minutes ago looking for Mushrooms (no,
not that kind, the kind you eat legally) when all of a sudden this HUGE
snake goes flying up in the air at me, and then curls up in a ball and
starts shaking his tail.

So I see the defensive posture and the shaking tail and (right after I mess
myself :^)) think, "Oh great, a timber rattler".  Just what I need!

So I call the guy at the local DNR office and give him a description
(yellowish-brown, brown rectangular areas on it's back, biiiiiig, about 2
1/2" in diameter and about 4 foot long) and ask him what it is.  He doesn't
know, so he has to go across the street to get a snake book.  Calls me back
about 15 minutes later and says from the description it appeared to be a
Bull Snake, and not a Timber Rattler.  He also said Timber Rattlers were
rare around here anyway.

What's the point of me telling all this?  Isn't one really... just killing
time while my pants dry ;^)

72/73/oo
Rob, W�JRM
ARRL; FP Qrp -330; Live-Wire #442; IA QRP #143; SOC #497; QRPp-I #19

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