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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Maryland homeowner burned down house trying to fight snakes

"...manage a snake infestation..."

We get a fair number of snakes in the basement in the fall (hatchling fox snakes, mostly) and I manage them by replacing the mouse snap traps with glue traps until the snakes are settled away (snakes can be removed from glue traps with vegetable oil), so they don't get hurt accidentally.

Timber rattlers' range doesn't extend to Montgomery county, so there's not even that (dumb, but common) excuse.
 
I was going to post this Monday at work but couldn't remember my fauna pass then totally forgot about it. My ex brother in law almost did this back in 1971 in Orlando Fla. He and my sister had a load of Eastern Coachwhips living under wood and concrete pile right next to house. My ex bil thought they might as well have been mambas. I can still hear my dad asking him what the hell was wrong with him, lol. I was like 11 years old.
 
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