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We have a similar high regard for black snakes...we run across copperheads fairly regular here in SW Missouri. One adult black snake liked to cool itself in the well house drip bucket. No problem...whenever I showed up for my weekly physical plant inspection/maintenance I'd jostle the bucket and he/she would slither off uneventfully. Funny (not really) about the copperhead in your shop...a few days ago I found a juvenile black snake in mine. Dismissed it at first as wayward HD fringe on the floor.....

Yep, if you aren't having fun with your toys, you don't have the right toys.

With us Bill there is no point in worrying. Bungendore is a sort of Las Vegas for Tiger Snakes and Browns are common. It's just something you live with, like bears in your neck of the woods but at least with snakes if they do kill you it won't be with any sort of malice! As for Erika? She's a scientist. Deeply committed and fully aware of the dangers. She's not like those idiots you see on YouTube trying to pat lions or stroke a bison! I worry more about her being attacked by some toothless meth-head in Queanbeyan than I do about her fondling of venomous animals. Mind you I'd hate to be the meth-head who tried it on with her! She's a not insubstantial young woman used to hard physical labour and while she's not a fighter I feel that a right uppercut followed by a left hook would probably render most aggressors senseless on the ground with birds tweeting around their head like a cartoon villain!😆

Chanclas are as much a throwing weapon as footwear. Don't you have any Phillipino or Latino neighbors? It's a fine art, and deadly. Just ask any kid.

I'm delighted I don't live in fat, drunken disgraceland. (well, actually I do..) Up here we only have to worry about mosquitos and a few grumpy elks.

What with the surprising results I got from simply cleaning my leaking fork seals, I added this to The Checklist . . . [edit June 2022: This lasted 5,000 miles/ 8.000 km before having to repeat. Surprisingly good outcome!]

@v11_meticcio asked me where to put the links to Mandello's preparations for the Moto Guzzi Centenary. Pretty sure it deserves its own topic! Happy One Hundredth, everyone!