09-25-2008, 04:40 PM
I never get to have Thanksgiving here at home. I have to go to the family ranch in Texas every year to help my 83 year old mother with her HUGE family gathering, so we have ours here the second week of December. If the weather is just right, I also get to experience Mama shooting rattlesnakes with a chrome plated 410 shotgun on her patio. (The chrome plating is a fashion touch my father thought was important when he got it for her. After all, the only thing that separates us from the lower animals is our ability to accessorize.) If they haven't had at least a couple of hard freezes to send the rattlers into their winter dens, they tend to gather on the patio to keep warm on the flagstones. She hates them and blasts away, starting at 6 a.m. Here's hoping it gets cold early in Texas this year.
Cheers,
Jerry
Cheers,
Jerry