Three days in a row! (Warning: slithery things mentioned)

[BC-3boys2luv]

I meant to post this before and forgot. Last Friday evening I went out to clean the chickens' waterer out and refill it. I have some purple wandering jew plants near the water faucet outside (they were there already from prev. owner). As I reached down to turn on the water I heard that unmistakable sound that takes 1/4 of a second to reach your brain and yell: SNAKE!! Sure enough, I look over and there is a BIG snake doing it's best to get away from me. (I should mention that the plumbers told me there was a large black snake living under our house when they were here right after I moved in). It wasn't black, though, it was silver. Really pretty. Really big, too. It went away from me then doubled back (because the entrance to under the house was closer to me) and doubled up it was about 2-2.5 feet - so roughly 4-5 feet long total. I went to go get my hoe but by the time I found where DH had put it (NOT where it goes!) it was long gone back under the house.

Saturday I took middle son to the walk-in medical clinic. When we got back oldest tells me that Dad killed a snake. In. The. House. Yes, seriously. The room we're remodeling isn't totally sealed. The floor boards have holes where the boards had knots in them that dried and fell out over time. Kept telling DH something was gonna come in and boy did something. So DH killed it and had it out back for me to see. What we call a black rat snake. Not the same snake I saw. Only about 2 feet long and different kind of snake. Got online and looked it up and I think mine was a yellow bellied racer. Not 100% sure, but that's my guess.

So, that brings us to Sunday. We've had to cut down some diseased trees and we had some wood in one area that needed to be gotten rid of (has wood eating beetles or something in it). Nieghbors said we could put it on their burn pile in pasture next to our garden to get it away from the house. So we're loading it up in the truck bed late Sunday afternoon and we pick up the last piece and, oh, look, a baby one of the gray snakes I saw! DH killed it with a stick and rock. It wasn't even a foot long, very small. Still very pretty.

I was ever so glad when Monday was completed with no more snake sightings!

[BC-katrack]

Oh my.

[carold]

Gaaaccckkkkk! Eeeuuuuww, blech, blech, shudder.....ick!

[BC-3boys2luv]

Originally Posted by carold

Gaaaccckkkkk! Eeeuuuuww, blech, blech, shudder.....ick!

I love your posts!

[Caligal]

Girl you need to move away!! Just kidding!

I hate snakes and have a fear of them since I was a kid.

Make sure you check your beds at nite time before you crawl into them? Can you imgaine if you had one in your bed? Gross!!! But seriously I would check them, after what you just said....having one in the house.

[carold]

Originally Posted by Caligal

Make sure you check your beds at nite time before you crawl into them?

**THUD**

[BC-katrack]

Someone told me once we move to our new area I shouldn't put my feet in my shoes without checking for scorpions. I think of that every single morning when I get up before dawn and put my feet into my slippers in the dark. I guess I'll have to wait and see if I really do see scorpions in my new house to know if I should shake my slippers out first or not.

Shudder. Snakes in bed. Shudder again.

[BC-3boys2luv]

Originally Posted by BC-katrack

Someone told me once we move to our new area I shouldn't put my feet in my shoes without checking for scorpions. I think of that every single morning when I get up before dawn and put my feet into my slippers in the dark. I guess I'll have to wait and see if I really do see scorpions in my new house to know if I should shake my slippers out first or not.

Shudder. Snakes in bed. Shudder again.

When we first got married DH had some 'desert' training. He came home and I started unpacking his bags with him to start washing stuff. Two scorpions came home with him! Immediate rule still in effect in our home: Bags from training/deployments are unpacked OUTSIDE!