😲 Shoulda listened to @papa-pepper... 😲 I got bit!!! 😲

Did you see the amazing @papa-pepper show off his wizardry yesterday?
Here's his post showing his lightning fast speed (You know that movie, series, comic book - The Flash? That might have been based off of papa-pepper!) as he catches a copperhead snake!
Yup, you heard me right.
He not only catches the dang thing, he got it all on video!

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• I've never personally met papa-pepper, but I'm thinking he may have 3 arms and hands. I mean, there's a hand with the tongs, there's the hand catching the snake and I'm still trying to figure out how that all got caught on video. Maybe he knows some sort of powerful magic to make the camera float in the air and keep videoing. I don't know. I've studied magic for a few decades now and have never ran across such a powerful spell.
  • You would think I would have noticed a 3rd arm after watching dozens of his videos. Maybe he keeps it well hidden. ???

I only wish I would have heeded his warnings in the video and post!!!
Maybe then I wouldn't have gotten bit!!!

Hindsight is always 20-20

I've reviewed his documentary by watching the video over and over and reading his post over and over.
And now I think I get it.
I think I will be much safer now that I have picked up a few gems from him.

• First off, when confronted with such a brutal, savage animal, you must have nerves of steel.
• A set of tongs can be used to help capture the enemy. (I think I will be on the lookout for some really, really, really, really long tongs!)
• Try not to intrude into their personal space. It's usually only when they get nervous that they attack.

Unfortunately, those lessons were learned too late to save me from the travesty that occurred in my life yesterday.

I was attacked by an evil creature
and it sank it's fangs into me.

If only I would have known! I could have saved myself seconds of agony.

Here's the deal.

• You don't want to be attacked so you really need to go read and watch papa's educational information.

Yesterday, I was working in the yard and the garden. I'm not really sure where I was when the creature attacked. All I know is when I was getting ready for my shower, I glanced over at the mirror and there the evil creature was with it's fang sank deep into me. ACCKK!!! Egads. I wasn't prepared for that horror I saw in the mirror.

• Sorry, I can't share a pic of the situation, since I don't normally photograph that area of my body.
  

What to do if you get bit.

If you are a homesteader, gardener, morel mushroom hunter, ... ...
odds are,
regardless of how careful you might be,
someday,
somewhere,
when you least expect it,
you might get bit, too!
It's just a sad but true piece of a homesteader's, gardener's, morel hunter's life.

Probably one of the first things you will want to do is remove the creature from your body.

You wouldn't want to faint from having to look at that horror very long.

Time is of the essence!

• Forget running to check out the proper course of action by Googling it or pulling out your first aid book.
  • Just be prepared to grab the bull by the horns and take action NOW!
    • Get that sucka outta yer body...

Here's what I did. I got me a cotton swab and doused it with alcohol. I covered the creature's head with this hoping it would suffocate a bit and turn loose of me.

• Whew what a relief! It did!

Warning, if you are faint of heart, you might want to go on to another post now, cuz I'm going to show a pic of the evil creature that sank it's fangs deep into my anatomy...

I'll just type a bit of gibberish here to give them time to move along if they want to.
La la la la
la la la
OK
That should do it...
Here's goes
Last warning, if you have a weak stomach, now is the time to move along...
OK here goes
Don't say I didn't warn you!

There it is.
Shocking isn't it?
Are you OK?
Hope you didn't pass out or anything...

I wouldn't have shared that pic of horror,
but thought at least those with a strong heart
could take the cold hard facts.
So, there the evil creature is.

He may have won a battle, but I won the war.
I am the champion!
A quick cooking from my Bic lighter and he was ready to be tossed in the garbage can...

OK OK OK
I hear ya.
The creature that attacked me,

• isn't poisonous.
• doesn't usually scare you when you see it
  • unless you see it with it's fangs sank deep in your anatomy 😲
• isn't a copperhead
  • isn't even a snake.
    • but that dang thing attacked me!
      and sank it's fangs deep into my anatomy!

Evil, I tell ya. Evil creature!!!

You're still not impressed?
Oh yeah! 😣
You obviously haven't watched the documentary from 1993 about the mutated, blood-sucking ticks that attacked those poor, poor teenagers in California!

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Here's more info at IMDB if you want to check it out...

Conclusion

If you haven't met @papa-pepper, you must check out his blog.
What a wealth of information!
Homesteader, gardener, all around great guy!

• Did you know he has one of the highest reputations on this block chain?
  That should tell you a little bit about his character.

Why did I write this post?
I have no clue. All I know is when I saw the evil creature with it's fangs sank deep in my anatomy, for some reason I thought of that copperhead video he just made. Made me chuckle for some reason and I thought I would give this feeble attempt to make someone else have a chuckle, too...

Have a great day and stay safe!!!

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