Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 29, 2012

Oh, great. Just what Holly needs: a science geek sister AND uncle.

So what’s wrong with that???

Probably a sleeping raccoon.

NOT poisonous, VENOMOUS!!! If it bites you and you get sick, it’s venomous. If you bite it and you get sick, it’s poisonous. (end grammar rant)

Could be crickets or locusts.

Aw, Wally and Alix are cute together! What a bonding time!

I’m with emjaycee on this one. there’s a snake where I work and people are always asking if it’s poisonous and I always answer that no, he’s not venomous.

Between Alix and Max, they’ve already made more work for the moms. Alix needs to exercize some caution, already.

Great, now even I’m nervous about what’s in that sleeping bag.

Sounds like a phone.

hope it’s not another skunk.

more thanks to emjaycee…I’d forgotten that. Now I have another hair to split. I’m getting tired of the nauseous/nauseating battle.

Gut a snake, skin it, clean it, and it can make a tasty meal out in the wilderness. Years and years ago, we had to learn how to eat snake in the Civil Air Patrol.

P.S.: it was a copperhead.

The odds are is that the noise maker is a cicada (commonly called 7 year locust)

there is no such thing as a poisonous snake or any other animal for that matter. there are, however, VENOMOUS snakes as well as other animals. poison is INGESTED, whereas venom is INJECTED.

Wally needs a super hero name!

Val and Holly don’t like this one bit.

I say: ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH.

Whoo-Hoo! Excitement in tents.

“. .. . a snake may be poisonous if you eat the right part.”We moved to Florida in 1944. When we drove from St. Pete to Tampa across the Gandy Bridge, we’d come right up on the little town of Rattlesnake. You could buy canned rattlesnake meat there (never had any). The town isn’t there any more, but you can read about it onhttp://www.ghosttowns.com/states/fl/rattlesnake.html(Sorry about the stupid flashing ad.)

It could be a bee. “Sounds” like it to me. :)

This is funnier than the Brady Bunch camping trip episode.

I still say it’s a poisonus skunkupine.

What happened to her poison oak?

funny!.