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OFF TOPIC - my rush for the day
I went next door to sit with neighbor and watch the kids play. We walk over
to her old garden, now a holding bed. We notice a long snake, brown and tan in the compost bin. Now - over the weekend (at camp) I hear that the Easter Diamondback has been seen in more suburban areas. OK - right color, kind of small in diameter, but I have a curious 7 year old (aka DD) and an exuberant 5 year old (aka DD's Best Friend and next door neighbor). Sh*t! "get the kids inside and get animal control" "I think it might be a diamondback". She gets her oldest (19 and an Eagle Scout) son outside - "color is off, but that varies. Head is round not squared. Kind of thin" (rattlers are husky snakes) Creep closer - we agree it looks like more like a python - some one's escaped pet? Cops are "tied up" (this is a scary thought), Animal Control is closed for the day. Decision one - take pictures. Duly done. Lets capture it - get a container with a lid. She grabs a plastic storage tote. "Hey - B..., you're a man - grab it and dump it in" "NO WAY" "How about a pair of tongs?" She grabs the tongs, hands them to me as he won't do it, I grab the snake and d*mn it strong for such a small snake. About .5 inch in diameter and 6 feet long. It burrows off into the compost heap and is gone. ===== I come home, and start looking at pythons on line. Doesn't look like any of the common pet pythons. OK - snakes of NH on google. There it is - I'm right it is a python (relative) an Eastern Milk Snake. Guess what I'll bet there are eggs in her compost heap. Giggle Cheryl |
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Cheryl Isaak wrote:
I went next door to sit with neighbor and watch the kids play. We walk over to her old garden, now a holding bed. We notice a long snake, brown and tan in the compost bin. Now - over the weekend (at camp) I hear that the Easter Diamondback has been seen in more suburban areas. OK - right color, kind of small in diameter, but I have a curious 7 year old (aka DD) and an exuberant 5 year old (aka DD's Best Friend and next door neighbor). Sh*t! "get the kids inside and get animal control" "I think it might be a diamondback". She gets her oldest (19 and an Eagle Scout) son outside - "color is off, but that varies. Head is round not squared. Kind of thin" (rattlers are husky snakes) Creep closer - we agree it looks like more like a python - some one's escaped pet? Cops are "tied up" (this is a scary thought), Animal Control is closed for the day. Decision one - take pictures. Duly done. Lets capture it - get a container with a lid. She grabs a plastic storage tote. "Hey - B..., you're a man - grab it and dump it in" "NO WAY" "How about a pair of tongs?" She grabs the tongs, hands them to me as he won't do it, I grab the snake and d*mn it strong for such a small snake. About .5 inch in diameter and 6 feet long. It burrows off into the compost heap and is gone. ===== I come home, and start looking at pythons on line. Doesn't look like any of the common pet pythons. OK - snakes of NH on google. There it is - I'm right it is a python (relative) an Eastern Milk Snake. Guess what I'll bet there are eggs in her compost heap. Giggle Cool! Wait until she turns her compost and little snakelets (what is the correct term?!) dart out! -- Brenda Tickler of Chuzzles |
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Brenda Lewis wrote:
Cool! Wait until she turns her compost and little snakelets (what is the correct term?!) dart out! Better warn her before that, or else acquire a home defibrillator for the resultant heart failure! -- Karen C - California Finished 4/8/06 - needlepoint calendar canvas for June WIP: Getting all the UFOs done, July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!! Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message ... On 6/15/06 8:29 PM, in article , "Karen C - California" wrote: Brenda Lewis wrote: Cool! Wait until she turns her compost and little snakelets (what is the correct term?!) dart out! Better warn her before that, or else acquire a home defibrillator for the resultant heart failure! Been there, done that! I've been here for years and have never had a milk snake in the yard. Garter snakes a plenty and a few black racers, but that is a new one. Cheryl DD#2 will be quite envious! She has half a dozen pet snakes (mostly corn snakes, but one small type python). At least they don`t talk back, like her parrot who, when she fell downstairs last week fixed her with it`s beady eye and said "You TWIT!!!". pAT p |
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Pat P wrote: At least they don`t talk back, like her parrot who, when she fell downstairs last week fixed her with it`s beady eye and said "You TWIT!!!". Truly LOL!!!! Whoever said animals were dumb?!?!? Thanks for the laugh, Pat! Joan |
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