Cool little animals. My wife loves looking for critters. She grew up on this farm and she had talked about always having frogs or salamanders for pets and then returning them to the wild. We ended up back here on part of her family farm and when we built our house we found these cabinet handles and decided to have fun with it. I've had many pairs of gloves that looked just like that...
Love the handles, and I’m sure your wife appreciated your attention to detail. When I’m getting close to the end of the season, I hate to break out a new pair of gloves Those are what you start the wood cutting season with, right? Yes Brad, there is a beginning and an end to my woodcutting season! Don’t judge me
I walked into the shed this morning with my sunglasses on. Turned the light on over the work bench and two feet away were two snakes all wrapped up. Bout jumped outa my underwear! Not afraid of snakes but don’t like being startled by them. The snakes that hang around my shed are eastern fox snakes according to our DNR website. These two today were about 4 foot long but I have found snake skins in my woodpile 56” long.
Cash Larue ......not many bats, no poison ivy, not many mosquitos.... Do you have may flies or ticks? You've got to have some kind of pest to annoy you, pester you and make you itch!
Not at my elevation. The pesky critters and nasty plants generally aren’t up here nearly as much as in the city. Hard winters and cool summer nights generally keep the pests away. If we get a particularly hot summer, we do see more horse flies and deer flies up here. We also have yellow jackets (which I kill at all costs). We do also occasionally see a wood tick or two up here, but not very often. The lower elevations do have their share of rattle snakes, mosquitos etc though.
I agree with this 1000 %. Never in my life have I killed a bull or fox snake. Dog had 6 foot bull snake cornered in the garage once snake was as big as my wrist from his head to his tail. That size snake takes a ton of mice calories
Garter Snakes come and go around here. Some years I see them, some years I don't. I saw one Green Snake which survived a trip though the combine. It was about the size of a wood pencil with big eyes. There's Rattlers and Bull Snakes closer to the Montana border. There's a big Garter Snake mating den about 100 miles from here.
I'm having trouble posting the above link. You might get in by going to CBC.CA news and searching for the above story.
dont think i could stand them round my place,we dont have as many kind of snakes like you do. we only have 3 kind of snakes,and only one can kill you.
Ms. buZZsaw and i were cleaning up the backyard...raking/organizing. I was cutting more kindling and moving boards when i discovered this guy/gal curled up on top of a plastic storage bin next to the deck. 3'+ black snake. It was under a board. Good thing i found it first otherwise she wouldve had an accident in her pants! I put in in a garbage pail to be released down in my processing area. I later went to put the pail on the PU and it was sunning itself. I think it was ready to molt as its eyes had clouded over and its skin was flaky. I let it go in my hickory stack. Maybe ill find its skin in a couple years when i unstack it.
Watch the ones that are close to molting when their eyes are clouded.....ive found those in particular to be "mean as a snake"....
