Pris

*PRIMAL SCREAM*!!! MY STARS ABOVE, MELODIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
*THAT* is my GREATEST FEAR, those awful RATTLERS!!! ughhhhhhhhhhhh ... we
don't have any javelinas (those are more south from us) but we DO have all
the other things you've listed, yep right in the suburbs, ESP
RATTLERSSSSSS!!!

last summer our neighbor was watering his yard late in the evening and as he
went to turn the waterhose off ... he stuck his hand in the shrubs and
THOUGHT he'd heard a cicada chirping noise and continued to reach in and was
bitten by a 5 ft *rattler*!!! poor fella almost died and has HORRIBLE SCARS
from the surgery ... to this day he says he's SO GRATEFUL he was the one to
meet up w/ the rattler b/c he'd asked his 6 yo son to tend to the hose but
he was busy playing; ohhhhhh, goodness, that story would've had a different
ending!!!

sooooooooo, ohhhhhhhh, PULEEZE BE CAREFUL Melodie!!! ***ALWAYS*** check
that laundry basket (now Pris has the CREEPS!!!)!!!

I fuss @ dh all the time b/c he likes to leave the garage doors open during
the summer about 6 ins b/c it helps the garage stay cooler ... wellllllll,
I *understand* but the creepy crawlies like to stay COOL, TOO!!!

*OHHHHHHHHHHH* NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW???* how am I supposed to go to sleep after
this post??? yep, I'll have nightmares for sure!!!

I *love* hearing the coyotes baying @ a distance but I get nervous when they
get too close to the house ... the dogs are very good about making their
presence known but you NEVER KNOW ... ugh ...

geckos, do ya'll have these??? you know, those *nasty* little lizard
creature~thingies???

well, ya'll can see I'm NOT a very good SCIENCE/NATURE h-s mom, that's dad's
territory!!! I'd totally freak out, esp if *it* SLITHERS and has fangs or
split tongue!!! (eehhewweee*!!!)

Pris ~> who'z going to have a sleepless night for sure!!!
WARNING: I cannot be help responsible for the above, as apparently my cats
have learned how to type ...



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashling Ranch" <Ashling@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] country living-animals

> We have deer, rattlesnakes (found one in the laundry basket one day---as I
> reached in for the 3rd time--yikes!), tarantulas, scorpions, really cool
> lizards, jackrabbits, squirrels, bull and chicken snakes, raccoons, ring
> tails, bats, all kinds of birds (the scissor-tail fly catchers are really
> cool, too). We occasionally hear coyotes and have seen one mountain lion.
> The dogs ran off some havelinas that were eating our pecans one day. And
> since the dogs haven't figured out how to eat the armadillos, they try to
> bark them to death. Plus the usual animals --a cat, 2 dogs, a bunny, and
a
> few hens. It is HOT But Never Boring out at Ashling Ranch!!!!!
>
> Melodie =) (who checks the laundry baskets more carefully these days!)