At first glance, I thought the annual Lander Fly In was going to be the scariest news of the week.

Not that anything scary actually happened at the fun family event -- I'm just afraid of airplanes, so the thought of an entire event featuring flying machinery frightened me.

But then I saw the front page of the Powell Tribune, where I found a truly terrifying tale.

Powell's Shelly McPherson, 45, described being bitten by a rattlesnake while playing fetch at Deaver Reservoir "absolutely horrifying."

Just after she'd been bitten -- which she said "felt like someone hit my foot with a hammer" -- McPherson tried to drive away, but veered off the road, her mind already becoming fuzzy from the rattlesnake's venom.

Luckily, a Park County Sheriff's Deputy was there to take her to the nearest hospital. And the worst part wasn't the snake's venom -- it was her allergic reaction to the antivenin. She was flown by Life Flight to a hospital in Billings, where she spent two days in intensive care and two in a regular hospital room before being released, according to the Powell Tribune's story.

She's doing well now, and said she's learned a valuable lesson: "You can't live in fear, but you have to live in awareness."

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What looks like spaghetti, is cooked in a pot, but is totally inedible? Yarn!

The Northern Wyoming Daily News featured the Yellowstone Weavers & Spinners Guild on Dyeing Day, when the group stewed yarn in pots with natural products to color the yarn.

Gee, and I thought I was cool just because I know how to knit. Turns out that to be a real yarn aficionado, one needs to make and dye it oneself.

Contact columnist Megan Lee at (307) 266-0616 or megan.lee@trib.com.