Rattle Snakes and Goats

[Charlie Horse]

Last summer I watched a HUGE snake cross the road and go to the edge of my property. And I have no idea if it was a rattler or not. It stretched half way across the road I swear. I didn't dare go look for it because if I attracted goats to the fence and it was a rattler, it could be a disaster. I never did find it when I went looking later. But I heard from a neighbor that as a kid he was playing near the canal that runs on the hill and a "ball" of dozens of rattlesnakes was floating down the river. In fact one of the old bachelors that famously lived in this house got bit by one on the leg and was such a miser that he didnt get it treated and over a year the leg swelled up and pustulated and he died. His treasure of gold and silver coins and paper money was found under his bed.