You have found that the fall season has arrived in southwest Georgia, at least by the calendar.

We have had a few nights that hinted at what was to come and no doubt we will see it in the near future.

I have been up in the middle of the state as well as the middle part of Alabama, and it has gotten a bit cooler there than here.

In the winter, just that short drive will put you in a colder spot than we get here in God’s country. I know that a few times it has hurt my feelings when I had to go to Montgomery during January. I don’t relish it.

We were out for a while tonight and my wife mentioned that it wasn’t nearly as warm at it had been and even this afternoon was not so very hot. Then we got home and started on a project. It very quickly got as hot as it had been a month ago. So what it boils down to is the weather is better if you don’t have to work out in it. And it feels great if you sit under the air-conditioning. She retired from Belk’s after about a hundred years of working and doesn’t do all that much. I look forward to getting old enough to retire so that I can do what I want when I want.

I have mentioned a couple of times lately something about the snakes moving around more and starting to look for places to den up for the winter. You will see more snakes trying to cross the roads that you travel and know to take extra care while in the woods or just walking in places that are not cleared up.

I stopped in Homerville right after the first of the month, Labor Day weekend, and was looking at a picture of rattlesnakes. There was a wad of them in the first picture. A second picture had them laid across the tailgate of a truck. I could count them and there were 10 snakes, all rattlesnakes with their heads removed.

The fellow that had killed the snakes had leased himself some property to deer hunt this fall and was visiting it for the first time. It was a week before the archery season came in and he was looking for a spot to put up a deer stand.

Going down a two-rut road to where he thought might be a good place for his stand, he encountered his first snake. He dispatched it with his side arm loaded with snake shot. He didn’t go much farther before he saw two more. Before he got to where he had considered putting his stand the count had built to the 10 snakes.

He had intended on taking the three initial snakes to show them and surely he was now going to take the 10 snakes and show them. The treestand was still attached to his four wheeler. When he posted his pictures of the snakes, he also posted a note stating that the hunting property was also for lease or release. He said he wouldn’t be going back down there.

So with just a hint of cooling in the air, the snakes are crawling. Imagine what they will be doing when the first brisk morning gets here. After seeing that I think I will stick to cleared land and not venture in the deep woods until we have a frost or a freeze would be better.

When it gets cold they stay in their winter dens coming out on a sunny afternoon to sun themselves and dream of the following summer when they will stay warm. They won’t move far from their den and when the air starts to cool with the dropping of the sun they will go back into the den.Hope for cooler temperatures because of snakes

You have found that the fall season has arrived in southwest Georgia, at least by the calendar.

We have had a few nights that hinted at what was to come and no doubt we will see it in the near future.

I have been up in the middle of the state as well as the middle part of Alabama, and it has gotten a bit cooler there than here.

In the winter, just that short drive will put you in a colder spot than we get here in God’s country. I know that a few times it has hurt my feelings when I had to go to Montgomery during January. I don’t relish it.

We were out for a while tonight and my wife mentioned that it wasn’t nearly as warm at it had been and even this afternoon was not so very hot. Then we got home and started on a project. It very quickly got as hot as it had been a month ago. So what it boils down to is the weather is better if you don’t have to work out in it. And it feels great if you sit under the air-conditioning. She retired from Belk’s after about a hundred years of working and doesn’t do all that much. I look forward to getting old enough to retire so that I can do what I want when I want.

I have mentioned a couple of times lately something about the snakes moving around more and starting to look for places to den up for the winter. You will see more snakes trying to cross the roads that you travel and know to take extra care while in the woods or just walking in places that are not cleared up.

I stopped in Homerville right after the first of the month, Labor Day weekend, and was looking at a picture of rattlesnakes. There was a wad of them in the first picture. A second picture had them laid across the tailgate of a truck. I could count them and there were 10 snakes, all rattlesnakes with their heads removed.

The fellow that had killed the snakes had leased himself some property to deer hunt this fall and was visiting it for the first time. It was a week before the archery season came in and he was looking for a spot to put up a deer stand.

Going down a two-rut road to where he thought might be a good place for his stand, he encountered his first snake. He dispatched it with his side arm loaded with snake shot. He didn’t go much farther before he saw two more. Before he got to where he had considered putting his stand the count had built to the 10 snakes.

He had intended on taking the three initial snakes to show them and surely he was now going to take the 10 snakes and show them. The treestand was still attached to his four wheeler. When he posted his pictures of the snakes, he also posted a note stating that the hunting property was also for lease or release. He said he wouldn’t be going back down there.

So with just a hint of cooling in the air, the snakes are crawling. Imagine what they will be doing when the first brisk morning gets here. After seeing that I think I will stick to cleared land and not venture in the deep woods until we have a frost or a freeze would be better.

When it gets cold they stay in their winter dens coming out on a sunny afternoon to sun themselves and dream of the following summer when they will stay warm. They won’t move far from their den and when the air starts to cool with the dropping of the sun they will go back into the den.