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Live and)let live, I say.
News headlines aside. I still
believe that a large majority of
mankind is basically law abiding
and peaceloving. Most want to
live their lives in freedom, provid
ing for their and their families’
basic needs, maintaining friend
ships, and in the proverbial pursuit
of happiness. Most, 1 think, will
avoid conflict when possible.
Reality being what it is, conflict
of some degree and of some sort is
inevitable.
Thai’s whal 1 thought when 1
looked in the strawberry bed.
In addition to spending most of
our waking hours in efforts
directed toward the well-being of
the dairy herd and the land that
supports them, we enjoy animals
in general. Thus the dog is allow
ed to sprawl on the basement
couch during rainy weather, the
house cal provided with on
demand, in-and-out door service,
and the bam cats granted a share
of fresh, warm milk after morning
and evening chores.
We maintain assorted bird
houses, hand-carry to the creek the
occasional frog that turns up in the
milkhouse and risk cold-weather
dunkings repairing the goose nest
in the middle of the pond. A high
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over the water for the rare visits
they make; the resident red tail
hawks favors it for soying across
the meadow.
If a deer appears in the alfalfa
field, we drop whatever We’re
doing to watch. Fox kits playing
along the woods send us for the
field glasses —through one of last
year’s probably dined on a neigh
bor’s escaped chukkar partridge
that turned up in a comer of our
yard recently then promptly
disappeared.
And the sunflower seed supply
is plummenting due to the mother
squirrel that sits on the feeder and
stuffs her face for a half an hour,
every hour. She needs the nourish
ment since she appears to be nurs
ing three, maybe four, baby squir
rels. (What’s a baby squirrel
called? A squirrcl-ette?)
Then, there’s The Snake.
Garter snakes, milk snakes,
black snakes, water snakes, have
lived here far longer than we have
and have always resided with us in
closer proximity than we usually
dwell upon. They’re never heard
and usually only rarely seen. An
occasional shed skin left behind
here or there is usually all we see
as evidence of their existence.
Except for The Snake.
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unusually tame water snake which
lives in the stone walls of our
springhouse during warmer
months. During the winter, she
hibernates on an edge of the cov
ered spring itself muph to the
dismay of our dairy inspectors
when they take water Samples.
On'sunny days. The snake will
drape herself over the nooks and
crannies of the stone wall. Or
across a multiflora rosebush on
the bank of the adjacent pond. Or
stretch out across the old cattails
and algae along the water’s edge.
We know she’s generally there,
so we watch for her.
Reason we think she’s a she is
that other, smaller versions have
turned up in recent years. Nice
summer mornings, as many as
four variable sizes of Snake may
be curled together. Now, I’ve
found another. Or one that
relocated.
This one, a youngster, prefers
the side of the springhouse toward
the yard, in a comer I just put into
use as a temporary strawberry bed.
Due to an unexpected and untime
ly renovations of the patch, sec
tions of old plants had to be lifted
and relocated in hopes of salvag
ing at least part of the berry crop.
And, Snake, Jr. has taken to sun
ning itself smack in the middle of
my make-do berry bed.
Live and let live, I say. We’re
gonna’ continue to live here.
And Snake Jr. will continue to
live here. A quarter-mile away. In
the swamp.
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