Hill billy capers

[Outlaw Yogi]

Topical irony? ... I used to live with a wax fanatic. She waxed my chest twice, stings a bit. Got me to wax her crotch and armpits, and I asked if I could shave the GT stripe on her fanny. She said "Just wax right upto the edge then" .. so I did.
She was a violent woman, on 3 separate occasions she attacked me while I was trying to sleep, and on the 3rd occasion I reacted by breaking her nose.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Snakes are back in abundance. Had a King Brown (jet black with bright yellow belly) refuse to move from a track yesterday. Stamped the ground and it remained with its head up. Threw a stick at it (missed) and it still wouldn't move. So I lobbed a branch with 3 angled side branches off it, so that the branches fell on it like prongs of a fork ... snake retreated back to the creek.

Have seen numerous baby browns around too lately. Did have a Red belly Black living in a car seat in my camp, but a slight mishap with fire burnt out its residence.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Killed this at work this morning ..

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.. got a spade for the job, and a Mexican asked "Is he dangerous?". I replied "Deadly".
.. the hippy was saying "Don't kill it" when I went 'chop'.

[Rorschach]

Had a RBBlack cross my path on a track a few days ago... must have been at least 10', had a head as big as my fist. Fortunately we were going in different directions, at least we were, after I spotted him.

[Neferti]

Killed this at work this morning ..

[Oct14] Young brown snake 8 (@25%).jpg

.. got a spade for the job, and a Mexican asked "Is he dangerous?". I replied "Deadly".
.. the hippy was saying "Don't kill it" when I went 'chop'.

Mantra will be on to you, Yogi. A good snake is a dead snake. However they don't scare me .... but I loathe spiders!

[mantra]

I haven't seen any snakes for years. I'm always dreading finding one in overgrown parts of my garden, or in the garage. I don't mind spiders.

[boxy]

There's no need to kill snakes, unless they're hanging around where humans/pets have to be regularly. If you come upon one, just back off, and they'll head off.

[Aussie]

There's no need to kill snakes, unless they're hanging around where humans/pets have to be regularly. If you come upon one, just back off, and they'll head off.

Heroes need to be heroes.

[Outlaw Yogi]

There's no need to kill snakes, unless they're hanging around where humans/pets have to be regularly. If you come upon one, just back off, and they'll head off.

Agreed. Well usually anyway, had a King Brown refuse to move/back off recently, even after throwing a stick at it. And another in the donger that refused to leave, so I sprayed him with a can of pesticide. I let Red bellies hang around because they cannibalize smaller Browns. The dogs found a big Carpet python a few arvos ago .. as fat as a bear bottle and at least 8" long, and we let it be. The night after I killed that Brown at work I saw heaps of baby Brown snakes on the road through my valley. I reckon they were attracted to the heat in the road/bitumen .. had a baby Brown get in the ashes of my fire from the night previous in winter, I reckon it was after the warmth too. And a few nights ago the dogs went off at something in or under Gemma's kennel, she was all jittery/nervous and slept on a seat in the caravan instead.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Got word of pigs in a certain area up the road, so went for a look.
Checked a likely creek that comes out of a rain forest. No pigs, or even sign of, but heaps of shells from a creature I don't know.
The ordinary garden snails up here are about twice the size of those down South and too hard to break by hand. Usually a rock is needed to smash them.
These shells (from what I presume is a snail) are at least twice as big again and resemble the shell of a sea creature.

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I don't have permission (yet) to go into the property the pigs are supposedly going through, so had a look in a forestry/cattle lease beside it.
Walked about 10km. After 2 or 3km I found what should be a brilliant piggy haunt ...

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