Snakey Fun
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cassy_gSo, last week, I went out to the mailbox to get the mail and a snake approached me from the gladiolas at a high rate of speed.
Mind you, I like snakes, but when they charge me, it tends to make me nervous.
Yes. There was running, and screaming, involved. I even vowed never to get the mail outside a car again.
So today, David went outside to mow the lawn. A half hour goes by, lawnmower sounds humming happily in the background. Then it suddenly stopped.
Blake then comes upstairs and announces: "Mom! Dad found a snake! And it's in a jar, on your desk!"
Of course, I developed a momentary deer in headlights look. Obviously, I was hallucinating because I thought I heard "snake", "jar" and "MY desk" all in the same sentence.
This was soon followed by me rushing downstairs and finding out that, yes, there was a snake in a jar on my desk.
A right cute snake at that, being that he was safely inside a jar.
David was trying to find out if he was poisonous and had to go to animal control, or if he could go to a safe, lawnmower free zone of the yard.
He was having difficulty finding it, so I went and looked up "common snakes of Atlanta" and found a very cute picture of the "deadly" snake that had terrorized me.
Here it is:
Midland Brown Snake
They are vicious earthworm eaters!
So, Wormtongue, as he's been affectionately named now, was released back into the wild beside our compost heap where there are many many earthworms for him to munch on.
Mind you, I like snakes, but when they charge me, it tends to make me nervous.
Yes. There was running, and screaming, involved. I even vowed never to get the mail outside a car again.
So today, David went outside to mow the lawn. A half hour goes by, lawnmower sounds humming happily in the background. Then it suddenly stopped.
Blake then comes upstairs and announces: "Mom! Dad found a snake! And it's in a jar, on your desk!"
Of course, I developed a momentary deer in headlights look. Obviously, I was hallucinating because I thought I heard "snake", "jar" and "MY desk" all in the same sentence.
This was soon followed by me rushing downstairs and finding out that, yes, there was a snake in a jar on my desk.
A right cute snake at that, being that he was safely inside a jar.
David was trying to find out if he was poisonous and had to go to animal control, or if he could go to a safe, lawnmower free zone of the yard.
He was having difficulty finding it, so I went and looked up "common snakes of Atlanta" and found a very cute picture of the "deadly" snake that had terrorized me.
Here it is:
Midland Brown Snake
They are vicious earthworm eaters!
So, Wormtongue, as he's been affectionately named now, was released back into the wild beside our compost heap where there are many many earthworms for him to munch on.
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Date: 2003-07-07 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-07 08:21 am (UTC)And I was very very glad David didn't run over him too! Poor little guy, he was just hanging out, maybe looking for a girl snake and wow! Lawnmower!
Hopefully he will be content in the backyard with all the leaves and moisture and will stay out of the front yard where we have to mow. :)
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Date: 2003-07-07 08:19 am (UTC)But hey! We get baby copperheads all the time, and well... it was charging me!
I guess he thought I was after his earthworms... ewww.
But all is well - and yes, David did much snickering.