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Bruce[_28_]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:19:32 -0300, wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:04:20 +1000, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:56:26 -0400, jmcquown >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On 7/15/2017 5:34 PM, wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:05:19 +1000, Bruce >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:52:36 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/15/2017 4:26 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>> On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 12:21:41 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wells? Gallons per minute? Most houses in the US don't have wells.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> About 15 million households in the U.S. depend on a private well
>>>>>>> for their water. That's not chump change.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll have to take your word for it. Never had a private well to supply
>>>>>> water in any house I've ever lived in. That's stretching from CA to NJ
>>>>>> to OH and on down to a few southern states. <shrug>
>>>>>
>>>>> You're a total city type. I bet there are more wells in the
>>>>> countryside.
>>>>
>>>Bruce, please tell me exactly what you know about the areas where I've
>>>lived all my life. I'd love to hear it.
>>
>>Regardless of where you've lived, you strike me as a city type. I
>>don't mean that in a negative way. I was a city type for 45 years. I
>>still can't milk a cow or wrangle a snake with my bare hands. Not a
>>venomous one, anyway.
>
>I can do either and yes, I can milk a cow or goat. Years ago I
>impressed one of my sons friends when they came into the house with
>grass snakes, dropped one and I grabbed it and chucked it out the back
>door. He remarked he never knew 'ladies would pick up a snake' lol
>To this day if I see him he says Snake Lady.

Lol. I'm getting better with the pythons. They're easy to identify and
not venomous, although they can bite. Anything else I won't touch,
because some common types are potentially lethal.