[darcy]

we've had a bunch out on the roads right now.... Mostly garters and bull snakes, who I try to urge them from sunning themselves where they are likely to be hurt, seems I've removed someone from the road everyday this week! Last Labor Day I was going to work at the local National Park and saw a snake in the road, thinking it was a bull snake who love to sun themselves on the roads in the fall around here, I stopped to shoo her off the road, there was tons of traffic and there I am pointing to the snake on the road so people wouldn't hit it. Finally I got a traffic free moment and noticed it was a rattlesnake..... Let's just say I kept my distance, but I did my best to scare her off the road from a distance anyway.

I come from a hunting family, and I choose not to hunt, I tell my son that if he wants to hunt that it is okay, he just better make full use of the animal he kills. I know some people enjoy killing other things but that's not my thing, and not the thing I hope to impart to my child.

I try to teach my son the value of all creatures big and small, and I try to learn all I can about the creatures I fear the most so that I may learn to appreciate rather than fear them.