This past Sunday evening at my parent's house I was sitting on the patio with my Dad, just chatting and enjoying the cooler evening air. I saw him look down and to his left, and then he said, "hey, I've got a rattlesnake by my feet." I looked down and saw a 28-30 inch rattler stretched out on the still warm patio about a foot away from him. I whipped out the LODCE with 10440 and lit up the area as dad stood up and moved away. When I lit up the patio we noticed two little geckos about 3 or 4 feet behind the snake who appeared to be playing dead and their bodies were curled up. As soon as I touched one of them it ran off. I think they were trailing the snake trying to keep tabs on it as it passed through their neighborhood.
The snake didn't seem to be concerned about our presents and was pretty mellow until I tried to put him in a bucket and he tried to get away.
We couldn't let him stay in the back yard because of my parent's small dog not to mention people. We eventually got him into the plastic laundry soap bucket and I was going to walk it out into the desert. Dad said, "need a bigger light?" I said no, I got it. I turned the little LODCE from low to high and my dad starts chuckling…"I guess not," he says. I walked the rattler out about 100 yards and let him go in the wash. As I was walking back, Dad says, "It looks like you're carrying a huge spot light!" I handed it to my Dad and said, "let's see, you walk around with it now." He was right, it looked very funny to see this rather large beam cutting through the pitch blackness. He said, "this thing is getting hot!" We both started laughing about the pinky sized light. I guess this means I'm going to have to get dad set-up with one for his B-day next month.
Once again.....having a good flashlight comes in handy and the LOD CE seems to be right for every occasion.
The snake didn't seem to be concerned about our presents and was pretty mellow until I tried to put him in a bucket and he tried to get away.
We couldn't let him stay in the back yard because of my parent's small dog not to mention people. We eventually got him into the plastic laundry soap bucket and I was going to walk it out into the desert. Dad said, "need a bigger light?" I said no, I got it. I turned the little LODCE from low to high and my dad starts chuckling…"I guess not," he says. I walked the rattler out about 100 yards and let him go in the wash. As I was walking back, Dad says, "It looks like you're carrying a huge spot light!" I handed it to my Dad and said, "let's see, you walk around with it now." He was right, it looked very funny to see this rather large beam cutting through the pitch blackness. He said, "this thing is getting hot!" We both started laughing about the pinky sized light. I guess this means I'm going to have to get dad set-up with one for his B-day next month. Once again.....having a good flashlight comes in handy and the LOD CE seems to be right for every occasion.
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