Comments on: Slightly more harrowing than usual http://www.obfuscated.org/2007/05/05/slightly-more-harrowing-than-usual/ I will not explain what this weblog is all about in a few words. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: clynne http://www.obfuscated.org/2007/05/05/slightly-more-harrowing-than-usual/#comment-613 clynne Tue, 15 May 2007 02:26:50 +0000 http://www.obfuscated.org/2007/05/05/slightly-more-harrowing-than-usual/#comment-613 <p>Steph told me this story when we went to dinner ... DAMN. Sounds like Fletch handled it pretty well, which has to be a little reassuring to you as a parent.</p> <p>When we were kids, my parents always took a snake bite kit with them when we went camping or hiking. I always thought it was them being overcautious and annoying, because we <em>never</em> saw a snake (except once when I was in my late 20s, and far more worrisome on that trip was the old tree the rest of my family refused to believe was a beehive UNTIL THE BEES CAME OUT).</p> <p>Now I'm glad they did.</p> Steph told me this story when we went to dinner … DAMN. Sounds like Fletch handled it pretty well, which has to be a little reassuring to you as a parent.

When we were kids, my parents always took a snake bite kit with them when we went camping or hiking. I always thought it was them being overcautious and annoying, because we never saw a snake (except once when I was in my late 20s, and far more worrisome on that trip was the old tree the rest of my family refused to believe was a beehive UNTIL THE BEES CAME OUT).

Now I’m glad they did.

]]> By: nlo http://www.obfuscated.org/2007/05/05/slightly-more-harrowing-than-usual/#comment-611 nlo Tue, 08 May 2007 02:34:58 +0000 http://www.obfuscated.org/2007/05/05/slightly-more-harrowing-than-usual/#comment-611 <p>Man, that's some crazy stuff. Wow. This is a good reminder for us too that we should bring a whistle and first aid kit when we go hiking, we're so not prepared for this. One of the things I remembered from "snake training" at the zoo was that the striking distance was 1/2 the body length (not as helpful when they're, you know, moving towards you) but it buys you a little bit of time. Then again, zookeepers have the fridge full of antidotes so they have a leg up there.</p> Man, that’s some crazy stuff. Wow. This is a good reminder for us too that we should bring a whistle and first aid kit when we go hiking, we’re so not prepared for this. One of the things I remembered from “snake training” at the zoo was that the striking distance was 1/2 the body length (not as helpful when they’re, you know, moving towards you) but it buys you a little bit of time. Then again, zookeepers have the fridge full of antidotes so they have a leg up there.

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