Granny's gone and done it again

Did you see my edit about Sarah being there?

The Ouiskichitto River is really shallow and sandy, but it’s also fast and cold. Sometimes the campers do more carrying than canoeing. The beaches and sandbars are always shifting based on floods and whatnot.

Several summers back I was playing in the river with friends and family. I was sitting on this tree that was in the sand but also out of the water. We were trying to walk up the trunk and jump in. I turned around and saw a snake and I stood straight up out of the water and screamed “SNAKE!” and jumped as far as I could. I’m more scared of piles of leaves under bushes or picnic tables than the river for snakes.
Yes, I'm glad you weren't alone, but still...
We are in the coastal hills. Creeks and rivers are narrow and deep and run fast. You can get swept off your feet at ankle depth in the winter. When I was in high school, a creek overflowed and was running across the road, maybe about a 20 ft width of very shallow water... my car almost got swept off the road from that shallow water. But at least all the rattlesnakes were hibernating!
 
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There’s 1 more open nest box, who’s next?
 
Cap, are most of the pine trees dead? Do you have the pine beetles there?
We have been burning some pine this year and and last. Hubs cleaned out the stove pipe this summer and it wasn't too bad. Neighbor's big tree was dead before they cut it down, so not as much sap. [QUOTE/]
About a third of our pines are dead so i do suspect insect damage. We tried to get the stove pipe cleaned but our roof is so steep the chimney guy refused to go up there. They beat on the pipes and somr chunks fell down but i think there's still a lot of creosote.
 

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