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Bruce[_28_]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:31:09 -0300, wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:24:50 +1000, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>The trick with any of them is to grab immediately behind the head.

Half a year ago, I saw a young python stuck in the chicken wire of the
chicken coop. I used pliers and started carefully pulling its tail end
to get it out, but it insisted on going forward, into the coop. I had
to let go or I would have hurt it. It tried to bite me. Me, who saved
its life!