[ODDJOB UNO]

due to my superhuman strength and action figure qualities, and the fact that the only way ya get anything done here in the summers is before the damn sun comes up, i get up at 330-4am every morning. make my coffee, drag my dead azz outside and survey my lil 1.5 of hell.

people are habitual in their actions and so are most kritters. when i walk outside, i almost always carry a flashlight this time of year. since last night the sun had just gone down, and there was still ambient light, and i had done a looky see behind the drywall and concrete bags for snakes and the fact the bunny wabbit came out of there, i was complacent. WRONG! snakes always seek cover of some kind. rarely are they in the middle of an area with no cover unless transiting. 99.9% of the time they follow wall lines, structure foundations, driveways. they usually will have cover, due to owls and hawks.........and me.

so just now the 1st thing i grabbed was my dive light(mucho bright lumens), and surveyed last nights "radar screen of red/magenta" wind/rain damage. all my trees survived, and i didnt see any trailers blown over, nor any shingles laying around. so far so good until the sun comes up.


anyway snakes aint stoooo-pid. when its damn hot and dry out(its a dry heat), they gesplitten until nightfall. when we enter the monsoon stage of the summer roughly july 4th thru august or so, and the daytime temps drop somewhat and the humidity soars, they come out during day/night to feed.

like i mentioned before here. rats/meez=holes=snakes. its a cyclic kind of thang. now since i have a wash(warsh-arroyo) running east to west, this is the lil bastids autobahn onto my property. i cannot by law block the opening thru my block wall in any way shape or form. yeah yeah place a screen. right and when we have an ass whupper of a storm(last night was 1" per hour downpour), the damn hole in the wall backs up with debris and the next thing i know i have lake powell backed up behind my wall and my wall comes crashing down. and i have seen this here numerous times. so i would in theory have to use stainless steel mesh(same on 911 front oil cooler) to stop them from entering. aint gonna work ever. so theres no real way of blocking them from entering property.


its amazing how fast yer mind starts thinking of solutions when confronted by death. looking back my mind ran from snake shot, to shovel, to hoe, to pellet rifle pistol, in about .000000010 of a second, and where each was located in relation to me.


the key to these if ya find them and you are with someone, have that person stay there and be the "spotter". while you go get implement of dee-struction. we dont like them and they dont like us. 99.9% of the time they will ge-splitten for safety. and thats a huge problem when you get back with implement of dee-struction and they are GONE! i gurrantee you aint gonna sleep until that bastid is DEAD!