Some days I walk across the pastures to see the river

[Baymule]

You must be on the San Jancinto River. My sister used to live on the San Jancinto River outside of Conroe, but a flood in 1994 got into the second story of her house and did so much damage, the house wasn't safe to live in any more. So they bought another house on the northwest side of Conroe.....close to the San Jancinto River......and it has flooded too.

Your place is beautiful, sorry about your big catfish.

 

[greybeard]

Your sister lived on the West Fork San Jacinto--I live on the East Fork. Both forks converge south East of US 59 right before Lake Houston. There are no dams on the E. fork, but when Lake Conroe gets high, they open the flood gates to avoid flooding all those high dollar subdivisions and the excess water backs up into and slows down the flow of the East fork, which is probably what happened in this latest instance. Not much on East Fork except National forest and a few places like mine, so the SJ River Authority doesn't care how much water they send my way.

 

[greybeard]

Dunno if the coyote had been shot in th leg, snake bit, or been caught in a trap, but I put the poor thing down--he couldn't walk and looked as if he was starving to death.
Been snakebit myself (copperhead) a few years ago, and my leg was swollen within 10 minutes--whole thing turned black for about 4 days and foot and ankle never did fully go back to it's normal size. Most painful thing I ever endured--worse than the lightning that hit me when I was 16.
Just a note on snakes and canines:
My vet always told me, if one of the dogs got snakebit, especially in the face or chest, to get as much liquid Benadryl down them as quick as possible to keep their airways and lung passages open, then haul butt to the vet with them.
Bit in the foot, they usually survive on their own.

 

[Ferguson K]

Four of my animals were snake bit on the leg last year. The only one I had trouble with was the old man, they almost lost two toes to it. Vet tthinks maybe it was a timber rattlesnake. He was the only one we took to the vet also.

 

[TAH]

How sad. That is a lot of snake bites in one year. We live in Oregon and the only snakes we see are gardener snakes.

 

[Ferguson K]

We Texans have a smorgasbord of snakes.

Coral snakes, rattlesnakes, garter snakes, Kinsnakess, rat snakes, water moccasin, copperhead, and so much more just in my backyard alone. I'm sure I'm missing some. ..

 

[TAH]

Does not sound like fun.

 

[Baymule]

My mule stomped a coral snake to death. The horses shied away from the dead snake like it was still alive and going to bite them. The mule was proud of her dead snake and wanted me to see what she had done. She basically hates everything that isn't a horse.

 

[greybeard]

Does not sound like fun.

Ehh, not so bad, and--it helps to keep the riffraff out.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have the usual poisonous snakes but they usually stay away from us and we stay away from them. My wife is the most capable woman I have ever met but she wants nothing to do with snakes. With that being said she has an arrangement with a very large Kingsnake that lives in our garden shed. He agreed to not move fast when she's around and she always looks where she is putting her feet.