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I hit the sack after taking the usual set of pills and in 20 minutes or so I hear the dogs barking. So I get up, open the door and see three of them circled around something on the other side of their water bowl which is the bottom third of a plastic 55 gallon drum. The way they were dodging I knew exactly what it was. Put my slippers on and in my pajamas grab my snake stick and go out there.

4 foot long water snake that had gotten in the water "bowl" and was on his way gone when the dogs caught him. So I grab his tail and lift him off the ground, told the dogs NO and Get which they did. The wife opened the door for me and I carried it through the house to the porch and put it in a 17 gallon storage container with a lid to inspect in the morning.

Well morning comes and the snake is covered in dirt making ID a bit difficult. My stepson decides to poke it to see it strike and see what color the inside of it's mouth is. White, noted when it tried to bite Bill who is pretty quick in these situations. He is a bit culturally deprived. At any rate I wasn't going to let it go other than a few minutes wasted thinking about letting it loose at a house that has put up Beto for governor signs in the past. Nixed the idea because he has a beautiful German Shepard who might not be as snake astute as my Catahoulas.

So I got the grandson and we carried the tub out back, dumped the snake out and when it took off I shot it's head off with my favorite 12 gauge. Inspecting the head I found the fangs but I already knew it was a Water Moccasin. Oddly I felt sorry for the snake as it had only tried to bite us around 6 times. Would I have felt sorry if it had bitten the Biden voter?

Three things that substantially changed my concept of government was Nixon giving China most favored trade nation status and taking us off the gold standard, and Carter giving away the Panama Canal.

That boat has been great. Really punches above its weight class. It’s been loaded with salmon, caribou, and moose. It’s tough as hell, too! Been run into the river bank on more than one occasion! Haha!

Lame? DBT is the lame one....



Something is blocking your thought processes...cannot help you on that issue you have....for the 3rd time, again, and read slowly and carefully....When God says in the old testament to wipe everyone out (look up old testament vs new testament), you have to realize in the old testament, this is hyperbolic language, because in the next verse it says , "do not inter-marry with them"....HA! so if god just wiped everybody out, then how can one inter-marry with them? So DBT, can you see that back then that the language meant this had to be a decisive victory? It would be like saying today that in a USA football game that the Chiefs annihilate the Rams....so it is just a strong way of saying-they beat them badly.

The Old Covenant was without mercy. The New Covenant (which Christians follow) offers mercy and salvation through repentance. Jesus did not come to condemn the sinners but to bring the sinners to repentance and save them. Christ took our punishments on the cross and through his death and resurrection, we are saved, because Jesus paid it all!