Snake Man, Friday, 8/29/14

Friday, August 29, 2014

The weather was beautiful again today in the seventies.  Chuck worked at the River of Gold, and Cindy worked at the Nevada City museum.  All operations were slow today, and the train is still not fixed.   

The snake man came to Nevada City today for the last time this year.  He caught one rattlesnake at the cemetery and then came into the museum to make his report.  He asked Cindy if she wanted to see the snake that was in his backpack, and of course she did.  He opened up the top of the container and she heard lots of angry rattling.  He dumped the snake out onto the floor and then held it in place with a long metal tool.  He offered to let Cindy get a close up photo and held it up and towards her.  She did not much care to get such a close shot and backed away from the snake.  He told her that the snakes will be gone by the first frost.  He said they migrate about five miles into the rocky mountain areas and spend the winter there. 

We got off work at 6:30 p.m. and drove straight to Ennis to get a pizza.  We were expecting lots of living history volunteers to be at the Bonanza Inn when we got home, but not a soul was in sight so we had a quiet evening alone.