OK - as in Oklahoma; I was looking at Oklahoma topics because I realized I didn’t know very much about Oklahoma at all. No trees is what I found in a lot of pictures and I am definitely a tree person. (Actually, they do have trees and a lot of them; it just seems, on the other hand, a lot of places don’t.) Tornadoes is another thing but we have them here as well, although I don’t think we are Tornado Alley. We had a some mighty fierce ones on Palm Sunday in 1965, though.
Anyway, when you just go from link to link, you stumble on things, maybe like walking across the prairie without looking where you step. I landed on a site about a 15 second Film Festival somewhere and one of the clips was of a beating rattlesnake heart - after it had been taken out of the snake. Hey, I am not going to provide a link because I don’t want to cause problems for you. I didn’t realize what I was going to see and I didn’t push replay. Yes, though, the snake’s heart can be stripped out and still keep beating - They may be Snakex , like Timex, for those of you who remember John Cameron Swayze.
However, the Snakehunt site itself is HERE and they have been doing it for 46 years and on April 11-13, they will do it again! Now, I must go do the Indian Dance for no rattlesnake dreams.
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1 pottermom // Mar 10, 2008 at 2:46 pm
We lived in Balko, Oklahoma, for three years. It is located in the OK panhandle, a place that has more than it’s share of quirks. Cow chip tossing at the county fair and a 12 foot tall beaver that sits on mainstreet of the county seat. There is a town, or rather a wide spot in the road named Slapout that has an annual Rattlesnake Roundup. It’s quite the event to attend. Hundreds of rattlesnakes are caught, collected and a great deal of them are milked by handlers. The venom is sold to pharmaceutical companies and scientists.
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