Happy Valentines Day!

[lioness]

Originally posted by BigJon:

...Lots of other critters have been spotted here, even a bobcat that attacked my dog. (a relative, lioness?) but no skunks. I'm planning on getting a varmit gun Any Day Now. BigJon

mitakuye oyasin

what is actually considered a varmit gun?

[BigJon]

time to get this thread back on track

Ahhh! Your babysitting problems are solved! Just ship 'em off to parts unknown.
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[Serenity]

The baby seems upset. You may have forgotten the postage. How is the thread back on track?

[lioness]

ROFLMAO

that is just wrong in every sense of the word!!

[lioness]

Originally posted by Serenity:
The baby seems upset. You may have forgotten the postage. How is the thread back on track?

good question!
[harp strums for the memory effect]

we've gone from
happy VD quilts
to
bikes, wrecks & the mas production of worthless car parts.

...and there's always the BBB Publications of:
"Offspring, How to Wash and Hog Tie Them"
"Marking your Teritory and other Vamit Tales"


i definitely think we are back on track

[OperaTenor]

Originally posted by lioness:
[
what is actually considered a varmit gun?

I lived for a while in an area that's regarded as "the sticks" around here. It was a small community where I was the only unarmed resident. One morning I went outside to find a rattlesnake sleeping between a car port stanchion and a retaining wall(where I couldn't get at him with a shovel, etc.). I went to one of my neighbors, who I knew to be armed to the teeth, and asked him if he had something we could dispatch of this snake with. He brought over a .38 revolver loaded with "rat shot". It was a .38 shell casing with a plastic, bead-filled shell, like a mini shotgun shell. At ~6 ft it left a pattern ~8" in diameter, and had only ~12 ft of range. It took care of the snake quite nicely.

[Trumpetmaster]

Originally posted by OperaTenor:

Originally posted by lioness:
[qb] [
what is actually considered a varmit gun?

Ask Yosemiti Sam!!!!

[Serenity]

Say OT, couldn't you have just used the vacuum cleaner to suck up the snake and then taken the bag to the zoo? :confused:

[OperaTenor]

1) It was a four-footer. Too big for the vacuum cleaner hose.

2) It was a RATTLESNAKE. You can get that close if you want, but not me!

:p

[Serenity]

You could have fed it, wait until it swallowed its meal and then dealt with it when it was too fat, lazy and digesting.

Blowing it to smithereens with a varmint gun just seemed like a waste; you could have gotten a meal out of it.

[Serenity]

...or you could've tried marking your territory to keep it from coming any closer and scare it away (consult Happy Val's Day thread)

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Originally posted by Serenity:
Say OT, couldn't you have just used the vacuum cleaner to suck up the snake...

I'm trying to picture this. Snake unlikely to cooperate, vacuum unlikely to be able to handle the whole snake; just the first third. Now what are you going to do, with a venomous snake stuck in the vacuum cleaner and unhappy about it?

Originally posted by Serenity:
...and then taken the bag to the zoo? :confused:

I'm not transporting anything poisonous in a paper bag. Also, zoo won't take the snake. Not endangered, not used to being handled, health of snake unknown. Might be carrying disease or parasites.

[Serenity]

Oh Selma, where's your curiosity and sense of fun? It's not everyday you come across something like a rattlesnake; it's time to stop and play....and after playtime, it's meal time!

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Curiosity and sense of fun? Well, I've got something I use for that stuff. Kicks in ~3 cups of coffee into the day. I hope it's not every day I have to deal with a snake but it's sometimes oftener than I like; been calmly killing them as the venomous nuisances they are for nearly 50 years now. Not that fond of dead snake - it does not taste like chicken. (Though it does improve with marinating.)

Still not transporting venomous items in paper bags.

[Serenity]

Mmmm...I sense a recipe coming up soon...

[treebeau]

[quote]Originally posted by Serenity:
[b] ...or you could've tried marking your territory to keep it from coming any closer and scare it away (consult Happy Val's Day thread)

Regards,
Tim B.

[Serenity]

Yes it is Tim! It's been hijacked so many times I kinda lost my place....Would you like me to edit my previous post or leave as is so that subsequent posts make more sense?

[treebeau]

nah, leave it so I can appear to be clever!!

Regards,
Tim B.

[Serenity]

Stuffed Diamondback

~ 1 - 3 ft. or longer Diamondback
~ 1 cup dried cornbread cubes
~ 1 tbsp oil
~ 1/2 cup beef stock
~ 1/2 stalk of celery, chopped
~ 1/2 onion,chopped
~ 1 tbsp Jack Daniels whiskey
~ 1 cup molasses
~ 1 cherry tomato


Slice down belly of snake from bottom of jaw to tail with a shallow cut. Gut the snake and throw away internals. Run gutted snake under warm tap water and remove extra blood.

In a mixing bowl, mix cornbread cubes, oil, beef stock, celery and onion. Allow to stand for 10-15 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.

Roll stuffing into a tube (snake) shape and insert along the inside of snake. Close up skin and sew together with cooking twine in a zig-zag pattern.

In a small mixing bowl, mix Jack Daniels and molasses. Set aside.

Place snake in a casserole dish. Make sure snake does not overlap as uneven cooking will occur.

With a cooking brush, brush snake with Jack Daniels glaze. Pour extra glaze around the snake in the casserole dish.

Place casserole dish into 275 degree oven for an hour and a half or until tender.

Remove casserole dish from oven and prop open snake's mouth. Place cherry tomato in mouth for appearance.

Serve and Enjoy!

[lioness]

Serenity,
where did you get that recipe?

i have eaten rattler sausage in the past and it was wonderful. very delicious and the texture was quite meaty. don't know what was used for flavoring though.