I'm cool with spiders. No fear of them. I just am not fond of the slowly moving innocent creatures that look slimy. I would probably leave my house if there was a snake in there until someone else fetched it out. Back in the early '90s, I was out in Joshua Tree this one time, out at my girlfriend's mom's desert cabin, out a few yards away making a painting of the cabin and the surrounding desert. Within 20 minutes I hear rattlesnakes coming up near me. So, I gathered up all my paints and everything and headed towards the cabin. What do I see? Two snakes slithering up the corners of the cabin. Both had stripes, one red and white, and the other brown and white. The doors and windows are all well closed, so I'm pretty sure none got in. Freaked me out! That painting never got finishes.
OMG, and once, I was driving to the cabin at night. Suzanne was already there. OMG, she was a humdinger. I need to write some short stories about all the girlfriends I've had. My friend Becky called me a weirdo magnet. Suzanne wasn't weird, she was just super wild, mean, and BTW, a great lover. I'm pretty sure I've grown out of it after the most recent, which was the Queen Bee! I loved her so much much. Anyway... you know how the road's in the desert or anywhere unpaved are lower than the surrounding area because it wasn't a road until a bunch of cars used it a bunch of times and made an indented pathway? And, in the center is a slightly higher area where the wheels rarely touch, depending on how straight or not the driver drives down that road. Real rocky too. So, this road was lower than the surrounding desert land by a foot or so. It had just turned past dusk to dark, so I put my headlights on and wtf did I see? A Sidewinder hauling ass across the desert. That snake didn't even dip when it crossed the road in front of me. It was almost a blur it was moving so fast...looked like a ghost. F'n awesome to witness. Or, how the young kids nowadays say, sick! Where the hell did that saying come from? When they see something "sick" it probably blows their mind so much they don't comprehend and put it in the mental illness category, subconsciously. I don't know...just want to make sense out of it. I need to make a motion graphic of that snake sighting that night. Coming soon! After the four other projects, I got going on right now.
Now I'm going to climb the ladder to get up on the roof and clean the gutters full of leaves.
