Baling hay; Back in 1971 on a very hot afternoon in South Dakota, my friend Mark and I were hired by a local farmer to help him bale the hay in his field. Mark and I were 19 year old hippies with long ponytails.
Our back-breaking job was to pick up the bales from the field and throw them onto the trailer being towed behind the tractor.
Mark picked up a hay bale and a rattlesnake stuck its head and four inches of its trapped body, out of the hay bale and lunged in Mark's direction.
Mark feinted dead away.
The farmer came over with a machete and cut off the head of snake, threw some water on Mark, and told us to get back to work.
PS: The farmer left the snake's remains in the hay bale. I suppose the cows ate it.
Brian: You did more for Edie than 90% or more of people would have done. Good for you!
Baling hay; Back in 1971 on a very hot afternoon in South Dakota, my friend Mark and I were hired by a local farmer to help him bale the hay in his field. Mark and I were 19 year old hippies with long ponytails.
Our back-breaking job was to pick up the bales from the field and throw them onto the trailer being towed behind the tractor.
Mark picked up a hay bale and a rattlesnake stuck its head and four inches of its trapped body, out of the hay bale and lunged in Mark's direction.
Mark feinted dead away.
The farmer came over with a machete and cut off the head of snake, threw some water on Mark, and told us to get back to work.
PS: The farmer left the snake's remains in the hay bale. I suppose the cows ate it.
Back in Nebraska we listened to Paul Harvey on the AM radio every day at noon.