How long do you feel imagiary spiders crawling on you after walking into a web? We were getting cattle up once in a woode area, my horse & I went right through a wed loaded with spiders...EWWWWWWWW, LOL We both went balstic! Heck with the cattle we had some major swatting to do. My Dad was like Lola, 'they're just litle spiders'. LOL

Mountain oysters...OMGosh...I hadn't thought of those in years. Yep, down here in the South they are quite common although I will you all that I have NEVER eaten them; well not knowingly.

There is a rattlesnake roundup also in the South and you can get snake-on-a-stick, and sometimes gator-on-a-stick. I want to add that anybody who would attend a rattlesnake roundup is nuts in my book. The only good snake is a dead one. And bring it on your bleeding hearts....you will NEVER change my way of thinking on this one. EVVVVVVVVVER!

My son, John, has a deathly fear of spiders...ANY spider...it stemmed from the night he spent at his grandmother's in Oklahoma. He was aroudn six year old and almost asleep when he looked down and a tarantula spider was crawling up towards his face...he said he could not move, could not speak...he was frozen in fear...I guess he regained his voice by the time it got on his stomach...his grandmother came in and killed it. But, now...my 6'1" big musculary 31 year old son will beat the crap out of any spider, good or bad, that he sees anywhere near him. Like you with snakes, JJ...John says the only good spider is a dead spider. OMGosh...can you imagine? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

But....but WHY don't you like me...sniff? I like YOU.

get it off! get it off! eww...ewww...ewww....kill it! kill it! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW....<Queen goes screaming down the hall, falls, gets up, continues running...Jessie Owens would be proud> Ewwww..help! Help!

A SNAKE!!! TO THE RESCUE, JJ!!!

And as she's nifty with them blades...for good measure.

GEEZE..ALRIGHT ALREADY!! I'M LEAVIN'...TOUGH ROOM!

JJ come on back, Lola got it. HAHAHA...so you are aware of Mt Oysters YEAH! DId you grow up around cattle too?

I used to feel like only good snake was dead, till I learned that the King snake eats the really bad ones. Granted I still give them W-I-D-E room to pass, LOL or run in the house..but don't kill them or the little greenies anymore. All other snakes beware, and like Dee's son, there's not a safe spider, I pound them till they're just a dark spot. WE have scorpions around here. They are right up there in things to avoid like Rattle Snake Round Ups. Don't ya wonder who in their right mind was sittin' round the house one day and said "Bubba, Let's go round up some rattlers!". & Bubba went..?
Dad had a friend once that caught them - milked the venum and turned those things loose. LOL I called him Crazy Clifford.

poor JJ...you can add 'wee my pants'

Larry spotted two snakes the same day in our yard...one was a rat snake the other a black racer...that sucker was loooooooooooong and creepy looking.