Just another day at work in the beautiful Florida Sun!!!

We do not ever,
ever, ever walk
in tall grass here.

Add fire ants, scorpions,
coral snakes, ticks, and
my favorite-various
poisonous spiders to
the mix and you stick
to the path.

Opp, Alabama (couple of hours from me) holds a Rattlesnake Roundup every year. The participants pour gasoline in snake dens to drive the snakes out in the open. The gasoline makes the den and surrounding areas uninhapitable for burrowing creatures for two years. Snakes are crowded in barrels without food or water. Some 'lucky kids' get the rattle from a live snake that is held down and stripped of its rattle. Macho men compete in a sack race to see who can get the most snakes crammed in a sack in a designated time limit. You can purchase plenty of snake parts for a festival souvenir.

Proponents say that anti-venom is gathered from this event. I think it is more of a macho redneck fest.

Alabama has the same creepy crawlies as Florida. It is also surpasses the sunshine state with its redneck quota.

Anti-venin.

This is the PantyHandle.
This is as suthun as it
gets.

Oyster crackers.

Genteel, yet frightening.

And of an antidispisition
to us Yankees.

Fo' shuh.

Um, I like oyster crackers.

Speaking of poisonous spiders, how is your arm now? fully recovered?

Mildly scarred and
at times itchy w/a
bit of tissue missing.

Bag balm. Shmear the bag balm on it.

I actually coulda
used butt balm for
the 2nd bite I got.

Anyone wanna see pix?

Do you get to drink beer while participating?

I'm heading to Flo-Rae-Da on sunday to visit my wife's relatives, then off to Key West for a couple of days, tehn back to TN.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee............................

Well, I'm not that enthused. I hope to find some good beer any way. I can always stock up on Steel Reserve Tripel Export on the way.

Yep me!

Figures . . .

<<<<WARNING!!>>>>
Pictures of an infected
ass to follow.

After the sucker got ripped
open in NYC and we'd
returned to Tally:

Couple days of being
tended to. Thanks to
Peeps for the nurse
work. I couldn't have
shaved my own ass.

This one never got as
bad as the one on my
paw, but since I did
have to sit on it, it
hurt an assload more.

I thought strongly
about not returning
to Fl. and remaining
in Atown after this
lil' incident.

Congratulations, you've rendered them speechless.

Not much yappin'
goin' on in here
to begin w/.

Now that's a bite in the ass!

Ms Prole returned from Jacksonville with chiggers -- not as bad but as a chronic itcher it's the last thing I needed.

What I need is a few more drinx.

Good work, Peeps. Good to see some meat on his skinny ass.

We were having
Yuenglings on the
porch(!) of the
Kempton when we
were up there couple
weeks ago.

I thought about you,
mon Cabeza.

Damn big Fl. lizards:

Kempton Inn. I died and went to french fry heaven.

Another order bartender!

Damn! That's a hairy ass. Good thing it wasn't a snake bite or Peeps would have to suck out the poison.

Nice image there.

Borat?

Norom™?

Terrible LL!
Two spiders bites in a year? How can it happen? And we're only in May...

"The Dr. says you're gonna die."

Sock Frog,
It's like 6er pointed out-
it's not the spider, it's the
staph infection. Tally has
a hopped up strain of
staph goin' 'round.

Re:That big ol' gator-
I tried to imagine the
smallest that fawn could
be. And that is still a big
ol' gator.

Re:My hairy ass-
It migrated from
my head.

Re:Tally=Hell-
Forest fires for about
a month now that
blow smoke into town.

I've never lived anywhere
that the weather report
reads-
"Periods of smoke."
day after day.

What kind of spider was it? Looks like that would hurt like hell!

Dunno.
Didn't feel either bite.

This one REALLY hurt
because I had to sit
on it for the flight and
the bus to The City
then in NYC it ruptured,
making sitting at all
painful.

The bloody, pustulent
patch on the ass
of my jeans was cute,
though.

There are really no venemous spiders around these parts. Not like CA where Black Widows were everywhere. I hate spiders!

Here?
Air? Toxic.
Water? Toxic.
Ants? Toxic.
Spiders? Toxic.
Culture? Toxic.

If you ever want to feel better about your living situation, you and Peeps have an open invitation to visit me in Bama.

I'm sure it's so much more progressive there.

That what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.

I ain't touching that.

Touch it,
you die.