Snake Bit...
She ain't no snake-handlin' woman...
In May I got to visit the Dancing Bean Ranch(ette) near Pawnee, Oklahoma.
Bobby and Bill put me up in the bunkhouse. Bobby told me a story about a big black snake plopping down on her back patio trying (& failing) to get at a bird's nest in the eaves. Needless to say, I kept my eyes peeled low and high for snakes after that.
She sent me an e-mail this week describing her recent ordeal:
"Just thought I'd let you know I had the ultimate okie experience and was bitten by a copperhead Sunday night. It hurts like hell, I feel like s**t, and am under a blood clot watch because the venom went so deeply (he bit me twice, but the second time I was moving so only one fang went in. Either that, or it was a three-fanged snake).
[I was] on the patio off my bedroom, watering plants. I turned on the light and looked for snakes, but not carefully enough, obviously. I just worked up the nerve to open the door and peek out there, and there is a coil of extension cord in brown, from the sprayer I use on the roses, and a curled up soaker hose. Clearly, the thing was hidden and I stepped on it.
I'm clearly not cut out to be pentecostal, and have been thinking how grateful I am that I'm not a Christian Scientist, as much as I admire the Monitor."
In May I got to visit the Dancing Bean Ranch(ette) near Pawnee, Oklahoma.
Bobby and Bill put me up in the bunkhouse. Bobby told me a story about a big black snake plopping down on her back patio trying (& failing) to get at a bird's nest in the eaves. Needless to say, I kept my eyes peeled low and high for snakes after that.
She sent me an e-mail this week describing her recent ordeal:
"Just thought I'd let you know I had the ultimate okie experience and was bitten by a copperhead Sunday night. It hurts like hell, I feel like s**t, and am under a blood clot watch because the venom went so deeply (he bit me twice, but the second time I was moving so only one fang went in. Either that, or it was a three-fanged snake).
[I was] on the patio off my bedroom, watering plants. I turned on the light and looked for snakes, but not carefully enough, obviously. I just worked up the nerve to open the door and peek out there, and there is a coil of extension cord in brown, from the sprayer I use on the roses, and a curled up soaker hose. Clearly, the thing was hidden and I stepped on it.
I'm clearly not cut out to be pentecostal, and have been thinking how grateful I am that I'm not a Christian Scientist, as much as I admire the Monitor."
Then, there was this rest area sign in the Texas panhandle out past Lubbock:
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This just in from Bobby:
[Nancy--Update on my okie adventure and plans to memorialize my experience--free to use on your blog if you would find it entertaining.]
"I have discovered that snake bite rivals tornado lore for being the stuff of legend in Oklahoma.
An acquaintance, Virginia O, is the only other victim I know personally. Her copperhead encounter happened about 15 years ago. According to the sages who have their morning coffee at the lumberyard, long-time Pawnee residents all, she was immediately admitted to intensive care where she remained for two days, until being transferred to a regular hospital floor for another three. Virginia says that, actually, she was kept in the hospital overnight for observation and then sent home.
But what the hell does she know? Snakebite is no mere injury. It's, well, snakebite, for chrissakes. If that isn't good for a few horror-inducing tales, what is?
Personally, I look forward with great anticipation to what my adventure in creep-fest pain will net in terms of local legend in ten years.
For the immediate future, however, I think I must take it upon myself to memorialize the experience. while lying around with my leg propped up and goofy on painkillers that hardly touch what is, it turns out, pain as excruciating as local legend would have it, I'm searching the pages of plant catalogs. My plan is to do a flower bed on the spot I was watering when said reptile got its fangs into me. I shall dub it the "Garden of Death." So far, I've found nearly black Hollyhocks--"Nigra," "Before the Storm" bearded iris that are as near to black as they can be without being dyed, (pun intended), and a deep purple daylily which qualifies not only for color, but because it is named "Bela Lugosi". Possibly the ugliest rudbeckia in the world is a candidate, since it's all black cone center with negligible petals. A deep red rose that lays claim to being nearly black is on my wish list.
Back to the sofa now. And Nancy--Do you think my snake bite might inspire you to create a song? A soundtrack, as it were, for the next time you come visit and we can enjoy the "Garden of Death" together--while wearing thigh-high waders, of course! --Beans"
Oh, and for an interesting & satisfyingly creepy read on snake-handling, check out Thomas Burton's book, "Serpent-Handling Believers". Thanks to Cathy H., who like Thomas Burton is from Birmingham, for the tip on this book. I am still looking for recordings of the music played during these services... please post if you know where I can find them! Thanks. NKD
The "Garden of Death" sounds like a great place for some voodo lilies. They're huge and purple and smell like a dead rat when they're blooming.
We could give you some if we could figure out how to get them there.
TG
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