Misc data and adventures of a Tayopa treasure hunter

coazon de oro said:
HOWDY AMIGO,

I HAVE NEVER BOTHERED TO LOOK INTO THE WHY, JUST THE WHICH. IT'S CALLED GEOBOTANICAL PROSPECTING, AND THE OLDEST BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT WERE WRITTEN BY THE CHINESE MANY CENTURIES AGO. DIFFERENT PLANTS INDICATE DIFFERENT MINERALS, THEN THERE ARE OTHER PLANTS OR TREES THAT ARE AFFECTED IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER WHEN THEIR ROOTS COME IN CONTACT WITH CERTAIN MINERALS, OR METALS.

WILD ONIONS ARE SAID TO INDICATE SILVER, AND SHALLOTS INDICATE GOLD. HOWEVER THE FIRST GOLD EVER FOUND IN CALIFORNIA WHILE IT WAS STILL MEXICO, WAS FOUND CLINGING TO THE ROOTS OF WILD ONIONS. THIS WAS BACK IN MARCH, 9TH OF 1842, THE FINDER WAS FRANCISCO LOPEZ. THE PLACE WAS PLACERITA CANYON 35 MILES NORTH OF PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES.

THERE IS A THREAD HERE UNDER TECHNIQUES IF YOU WANT TO LOOK INTO IT.

HOMAR
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Thank you, Homar. There is a little reference to that and the "juices" of the ore in " De re Metalica".
I think they may relate to one another.
I'll look it up. If I have any trouble finding it, I'll send you a PM...

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Folks came out today to bury the fiber optic cable to our house. They trenched a foot and a half deep and injected the cable all in one pass.
The machine vibrates a plow-like blade that drove every snake out of their holes two blocks in every direction...
I lost count after the guy started boxing them up...

Been a long day

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Snakes!?!?!

Good thing I wasn't there....I'd of climbed that poor feller like a tree and shut off his air supply with a choke hold stronger than Tayoper's mule breath.

Snakes? You go first........


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The first spotting of any of the snakes was trying to get in our front door, with my wife and two daughters just inside the storm door. Two of them came out the back door screaming <?!%##•¥!!! SNAKE!! Front door!!!!

Before I could make it around the corner, Jason had a three foot black snake by the tail, trying to get the other end under his foot so he could get a grip on his head. In about two minutes he had it thrown over the fence, into a field.
The next one made its way thru a crack in the brick wall next to the door, with Jason trying to pull it out by the tail, but it got away. Someone said it got inside, and a new level of panic ensued before he could say, the wall...

Well, now everything smells like mothballs... I'm going to sleep tonight if I have to take tomorrow night's meds too..

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Re snakes; Long time I ago and I had just moved into the country. Being a country redneck, to me a 'good' snake was a dead snake - full stop. Well, not long after we had moved in my wife screams that there is a snake trying to climb up behind a full-height bookcase. She was correct, I saw less and less of the snake as it tried to squeeze itself behind said bookcase. I ran out to the garage and got my trusted 7-iron and just managed to squeeze the last 6 inches of its tail against the skirting ... now what? Told my wife to get a machete and while she was away, the friggin' snake pooped!! That is the most foul-smelling thing I've ever come across - took us a week to get the offal and smell out of the (of course) carpet!. Needless to say the snake was quickly beheaded after such a foul behaviour - turned out (later) that it was a rat-snake and as such completely harmless! I have since learned the difference between venomous and non-venomous snakes and the latter are certainly more than welcome, though not _inside_ the house.
Somebody once told me that only venomous snakes have slit eyes/pupils, while the 'good' ones have round pupils - I have checked out some of the many non-venomous ones around here, and indeed they have all had round pupils, so maybe it is true?
Came across a copperhead a little while back, and must admit it got dispatched - mostly because of my dogs which have free run of a couple of acres around the house. I don't mind venomous ones in other parts of my property, but sorry - not within the dogs' domain.
 

Mothballs are good....pig manure works even better. But that said, mothballs are the lesser of two evils.

Either way, good luck and sweet dreams! :icon_thumright:
 

Loke said:
Re snakes; Long time I ago and I had just moved into the country. Being a country redneck, to me a 'good' snake was a dead snake - full stop. Well, not long after we had moved in my wife screams that there is a snake trying to climb up behind a full-height bookcase. She was correct, I saw less and less of the snake as it tried to squeeze itself behind said bookcase. I ran out to the garage and got my trusted 7-iron and just managed to squeeze the last 6 inches of its tail against the skirting ... now what? Told my wife to get a machete and while she was away, the friggin' snake pooped!! That is the most foul-smelling thing I've ever come across - took us a week to get the offal and smell out of the (of course) carpet!. Needless to say the snake was quickly beheaded after such a foul behaviour - turned out (later) that it was a rat-snake and as such completely harmless! I have since learned the difference between venomous and non-venomous snakes and the latter are certainly more than welcome, though not _inside_ the house.
Somebody once told me that only venomous snakes have slit eyes/pupils, while the 'good' ones have round pupils - I have checked out some of the many non-venomous ones around here, and indeed they have all had round pupils, so maybe it is true?
Came across a copperhead a little while back, and must admit it got dispatched - mostly because of my dogs which have free run of a couple of acres around the house. I don't mind venomous ones in other parts of my property, but sorry - not within the dogs' domain.
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I'd take the smell of pig poop over snake poop any day....ackkk!

I had a cottonmouth come through a tiny hole in a window screen to the living room of my lakeside home once. Came home after dark and walked in the door right over that sucker...didn't see it til I had crossed the room and turned on a light. Ran to the garage and grabbed the wood splitting axe and went to town on that evil bass turd. Totally ruined a perfectly gorgeous white carpet, but it was a small price to pay for peace of mind. Screen got replaced next day as well. I. Hate. Snakes. Don't care what kind they are....not gonna get on a first name basis with ANY of them!
 

I have not had a snake problem since I quit handling them or chasing them , or waging war . They stay out of the house and I let them go their way outdoors.

Today I swatted another hornet with my hat and did not worry about where it went ...until I put my hat on and got stung.
Arthritic neck felt better for a while ,but not sure it is worth another hornet.
I know where a lot of honey bees are to try to get stung , but they are good easy going citizens and have been working around me, even when disturbing them.. Unlike the hornets... Too the honey bees only get to sting once then pay dearly even if left alone after. Maybe that is why they are mellow in temperament.

Snake bites never did me any good. Those where teeth break off were the worst ,being snakes don't brush regularly.
Learned through a friends example when young and bit , to leave the venomous type here un handled.
 

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Ditlihi said:
I'd take the smell of pig poop over snake poop any day....ackkk!

I had a cottonmouth come through a tiny hole in a window screen to the living room of my lakeside home once. Came home after dark and walked in the door right over that sucker...didn't see it til I had crossed the room and turned on a light. Ran to the garage and grabbed the wood splitting axe and went to town on that evil bass turd. Totally ruined a perfectly gorgeous white carpet, but it was a small price to pay for peace of mind. Screen got replaced next day as well. I. Hate. Snakes. Don't care what kind they are....not gonna get on a first name basis with ANY of them!
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Dad always carried a.44 mag. Mushroom picking.
Knowing him and his reaction to snakes made looking for mushrooms either a distant ( from Dad) activity, or a nervous activity.
 

They don't brush? Well eeuuww.

I think I like your dad. Morel hunting with a Mag...my kinda guy. :icon_thumleft:
 

Ditlihi said:
They don't brush? Well eeuuww.

I think I like your dad. Morel hunting with a Mag...my kinda guy. :icon_thumleft:
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Don't mention a snake to him . Any kind of snake.
He gets Morels delivered now a days. Age running him down while his legs are done runnin.
Not sure if he still is willing to run snakes down with the riding mower , but he'll get all fired up seeing one and be jumpy for days expecting an attack.
He mowed about a foot off the end of a plastic flexible drain pipe a while back. I did not ask if he thought it was a -----!
At least he did not shoot it.
 

I'm in deep poopy now in my new place... 6 kinds of venomous critters to watch out for. Copperhead, Cottonmouth, Pygmy Rattler, Canebrake, Diamondback and the worst of the lot, Coral Snake. Plus 24 different nonvenomous. Yikes!!

Time for the tequila....and some good snake boots.


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Delivered?? Hot damn!! Wonder if they deliver to North Carolina? In season of course.
 

Ditlihi said:
Delivered?? Hot damn!! Wonder if they deliver to North Carolina? In season of course.
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I dunno. They don't deliver to me.
Hmmm.
Guess Dad did not teach me all the tricks....
He'll have to pick his own Stumpies come fall though. At least I think he'll have too.(?).

Come time to tolerate another winter ,less snake types come summer will be consolation again. Or vice versa.
 

Do you snake_a_phobics realize just what the rodent problem would be like, if it wera't for snakes ???/ hmm. hmm. As for any danger goes , human females are far more dangerous.:laughing7:
 

The only trouble that I have every had with snakes, was when I was exploring, looking for Mayan ruins in Yucatan. My partner and I had set up our mosquito nets in a dry arroyo, the head of mine was facing the wall at about 3 ft. That night, as we were talking, I was on my yummy supporting my self on my elbows, when suddenly the net was bowed in perhaps a ft,,, a snake had struck directly at my face but the mosqutio net had caused it to misjudge, lucky, since there was a bit of dribble / venom oozing down the skeeter net. Since we carried no flashlights, we never found what it was, but they have no shortage of different venomous snakies there.
 

One time I was walking around the desert in AZ near Arivaca. Happened to look down just as my foot was coming down on a rattler. That was the day I learned that, given enough inspiration, I could levitate! I ended up about 2 feet beyond the snake, facing back the way I was coming from, looking down on that snake, with no idea of how I got there. The snake seemed to be asleep, since it hadn’t moved. I backed up a little (okay, a lot) farther, and threw some pebbles at it. When the first one hit, it woke up, and moved off rather quickly, Fortunately for the snake, not in my direction, since I had him covered with my shotgun….

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Real of Tayopa said:
Do you snake_a_phobics realize just what the rodent problem would be like, if it wera't for snakes ???/ hmm. hmm. As for any danger goes , human females are far more dangerous.:laughing7:
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Those "ten paces behind you" making you a wee bit nervous now?? :laughing7:
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