Playing with the Snake

                                                         Playing with the Snake

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                                                                     Mike Capron

A beautiful painting of Human Nature by John Moyers…………..The minute I get full and happy, I go play with the snake.  Life is always changing and I am bad about pushing the bar, if a little is good a whole lot is better……….I am not dumb, but I love to test my limits. I know the snake is poison but I am smart enough to stay out of his way….I think….??????   Life would be mighty dull if there weren’t any snakes……..I have a snake that I have played with for the last couple years and I know he has a bad bite. He barely nicked me a couple years ago and I vowed then to never let him bite me very hard. I started studying this snake and thought I had him figured out………..He is my Gout Snake and is very illusive.    There are certain things I really like,,,,,,,, big red steaks medium rare, bread with lots of butter, homemade strawberry preserves , fancy deserts and any thing fried in lard……….Anne has done a good job of keeping this Big Gout Snake away from me. But when she leaves for a couple days, I’m just naturally going to play with the Gout Snake. She left last week to go help Liz and Travis with the girls Lilly and Layne. They had to take Garrett to the doctor and Anne stayed with Lilly and Layne at the house in Alpine.    Left me in Sheffield with the Gout Snake turned loose….I was having a blast teasing the Gout Snake,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I fried me up some red steaks for starters, some fried potatoes in lard,,,,,,,didn’t seem too bad to me, but maybe the second helping was the beginning. I went to bed feeling pretty smug……got up the next morning and had some more steaks with eggs, toast with plenty of Butter.  Had a great day and got a lot done……!!!!!!!   Mid afternoon I decided I needed some more of this fortifying food…….I was getting low on these fine vittles, so I decided to just cook them all up………My favorite desert is a Maple Nut Sunday ……………I went to bed so full and happy……………I forgot to keep my eye on that Gout Snake,,,,,,,,,,,and he got in bed with me and bit me in the middle of the night.  My left leg below the knee was out of commission……Swollen and Red……..I had never had Gout get in my muscles so bad…..just my joints before .  It was so bad I wasn’t sure it was gout.  But I thought I would try one gout pill……..Luckly it was better by the time I went to bed that night but I was hurting so bad,Food didn’t interest me at all…..!!!!!!!  It will be a while before I get hungry again.