EPISODE 796 rescued: THE SAFEST PLACE FOR A SNAKE IS IN JACK’S HAND
alan skeoch
April 2023
(When Jack and Molly were small and the world was full of wonders)
This little fellow…the snake not Jack…was caught in a piece of plastic mesh. Very fine mesh
in which fresh fruit is sometimes marketed. Thrown out on the fifth line by some vandal. Then
blown by a thoughtless breeze down our farm lane and captured by a bulrush root where the
little snake was hunting. Marjorie found the little fellow struggling and gently cut away the mesh
whereupon Jack took over.
The little snake seemed appreciative but it never said so. Embarrassed I imagine. Hard to tell
when a snake isjoyflul. Easy to tell when a snake is angry. We concluded this a happy
snake. When he or she gets big we are not sure that our frog population would agree.
One thing that make me concerned is the dwindling frog and snake populations in our
natural ponds. Notice I did not say swamp. That word, swamp, has a negative ring that I do not like.
Pond on the other hand has a pleasant association.
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P.ß. Where have all our leeches gone? There was a time I did notl like these suckers of
blood. But now they are gone. Why? Where? How? Their absence is a red flag.
Postscript JACK HAS NOT CHANGED BUT HE HAS GROWN TALLER
This Episode will be understood by those of you who have seen kids and grandkids
grow into adults too fast. Their must be a pill that can slow down childhood but
I have never found it except maybe by Clint Eastwood who said “Don’t let the old man in.”
