Why are so many grown men afraid of spiders and snakes? I find that amusing but sad at the same time.
While picking black raspberries I stepped into a pile of snakes. I was literally ankle deep in snakes. It sacred the crap out of me until I realized they were garter snakes. I think my heart rate went off the charts.
...never had problem with snakes, but then I've never been face-to-face with a King Cobra. I've tracked my large spider phobia to childhood, where I ran into a garden spider web with a huge occupant that at the time looked as big as my head... As for Ronnie's Black Widow, kill when found where they shouldn't be...
A friend has a reptile store. I have been in close proximity with rattlesnakes, copperheads both in the wild and in the store back areas. Even had saw scaled viper and Gaboon viper on the floor. Never bothered me. But when he took that nasty albino Cobra out of its enclosure I was on the other side of the room with my hand on the door knob. That thing slams its face into the glass to try and get at you. My friend was covered with sweat handling that thing. That’s the real deal. Wise to steer clear of any cobra or Black Mamba. They are quick.
Once I have established that the snake is not poisonous, and that it isn't big enough to hug me to death, I have no problem with them. Little ones eat bugs, big ones eat mice and other small vermin. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I know that spiders eat bugs too, and I don't mind them spinning a web outside, but any bug in my house is going to die. I also agree with the pizza statement. I'm sure that it is possible to combine pizza dough and other ingredients into something that tastes great, but without tomatoes, it ain't pizza.
Bingo. Funny thing is no one in Italy or anyone in Europe had a tomato until Columbus brought them back from the new world and it was strictly an ornamental. They actually thought they were poisonous. One can only wonder if the first guy that ate one was trying to kill himself? He tasted it and said this is damn good. The rest is history. Can anyone imagine Italian food with no tomatoes? Well that was the way it was prior to 1500 or so.
That’s a tomato horn worm with wasp eggs on its back. They actually lay them them. Does it have a false looking eye? They turn into big hummingbird moths. They devastate tomatoes. I kill all I see.
