Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the Mojave Desert.

Our majestic and strange desert wilderness.

Home sweet home.

And nothing makes a house or a cabin or a mobile home or a yurt or a sleeping bag

or whatever you call home

nothing makes it feel like home like celebrating our wonderful desert holiday.

A holiday so nice, we celebrate it twice.

I'm talking about snakesgiving.

Yeah. I'm talking about snakes giving. Snakesgiving.

Snakesgiving, once when the snakes come out,

once when the snakes go back down in the ground

for their long winter's nap.

Snakesgiving, as Hemingway wrote, is a movable feast.

Because it depends upon which part of the desert you call home.

Down in the low desert, snakesgiving comes as early as Valentine's Day, usually by St. Patrick's Day.

Depending on elevation elevation longitude latitude whether it was a good rainy season or a dry year

or a very dry year so you never really know what you are going to get

except you are going to get some snakes at some part of the year

some time of the year

if you are lucky enough to live in or near the desert wilderness

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