Yes Mary Ann, but I had my sharp little spade in my hands. I have been wielding that weapon at snakes so long that I have developed an accuracy for speed an direction that would make a gang of Ninja's quail. I could create 'spade marks' rivaling any ones tattoos! Why, after I got through with someone it may even come to be considered a new art form. Like.... pirates are know for peg legs and eye patches..... southern stalkers would be known for tic-tac-toe spade art. Innovation? Creation? .....and tell me you would have left without that iris.