My brother was stationed in OK with the Air Force for a while. He rented a house near a bunch of normal folks. They all had riding mowers but he had his trusty little push mower. He kept hitting things in the grass as he mowed. A neighbor came over and suggested he wear boots, and asked him not to cut the grass when the kids were around. Apparently, he was spewing chucks of rattle snake all over and didn't know what was happening. He bought a tractor the next day. One adventurous day he opened the storm cellar doors to see if it were usable and there was a den of snakes at the bottom of the stairs. At least he had fresh food if he ever had to use the cellar. Your dad would have loved this place. lol. Marilynn Masten wrote: > Thanks. I may live in NC but I am not an NC Armstrong. Mine were from > Westchester Co., NY and Ballston (Saratoga). And you can tell I am not a > North Carolinian with my dislike of Grits and the "famous" (infamous) > LIVERMUSH?!? Still, my Dad didn't care for either and he didn't like > "Okry". He was born and raised just north of Shelby, NC. Oh, but he LOVED > his old salty, flat cornbread with a half-pound of butter on it. Mom was a > Yankee who made Johnny Cake, nice and high and fluffy and sweet----with, > yes,a half-pound of butter on it. > > Dad hated snakes with a vicious hatred. One day he ran all over the yard > with a lawn-mower to catch one of those horrible things. He had heard the > old story. that if you cut a snake in two it will grow back together. So he > gingerly picked up each of the 4 pieces of the snake and buried each piece > in different corners of the yard. "There" he said, "Now let's see you get > back together from there." Don't believe it ever did. > Marilynn > IBSSG > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 9:43 AM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG] NC Armstrongs > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >