{"id":5,"date":"2006-08-02T20:45:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/othertime.com\/weblog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-08-02T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T02:00:00","slug":"critters-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/othertime.com\/weblog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"critters of texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

so i’ve seen a few critters since i moved to texas. they seem to be everywhere in this raging, humid heat. and most of them? they’re big, scary and quite possibly deadly. but whatever, i have yet to find anything bigger and <\/em>scarier than i am. thus, ’tis all good.<\/p>\n

the first creature i came across was in the backyard. a tiny anole (i think…i skipped herpatology (nobody wants herpes!)).<\/p>\n

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harmless enough. and its a good thing as there are dozens of those little buggers climbing all over my truck as i type.<\/p>\n

i’ve been doing a lot of hiking and camping down here, so i’ve seen a few things in the woods. there’s an arboretum not too far from here and on a hike there i came across some flavor of snake. i have no clue what it is, but i figured it would be good to have a picture of it so that they could figure out what killed me by the last image on my camera.<\/p>\n

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on another hike, this time at huntsville state park (land of the electric chair), i ran into some real luck. i found grasshoppers so big i could acutally saddle them up and ride them home. easy enough since there’s a saddle on every split-rail fence in texas.<\/p><\/div>\n

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seriously, that thing is the size of a brawurst. no lie. frickin’ huge.<\/p>\n

back at the arboretum, near where i saw the snake, i saw a gaggle of turtles. but the water was so murky it was hard to get any good shots. this was the best that i could do.<\/p>\n

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and finally, i have to go back to the big one: the gator. remember when i said that there wasn’t anything here that was bigger and<\/em> scarier than i am? i lied. this thing could easily have taken a bite out of yours truly while i was taking the picture in the previous post. it was less than 30 feet away and if it hadn’t been a trillion degrees in the shade, he’d of had me. so here’s one more of the one that let me get away.<\/p>\n

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that’s all for now. as i find more critters, and i will, i’ll post ’em. i’m still hunting for one of these:<\/p>\n

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