They Lurk Everywhere
So this evening I get my shoes on to go outside and water the garden. I walk over to the outdoor water spigot and start filling up the buckets. I then start to walk onto the porch and into the room where I keep the watering bucket and my gloves. I didn’t make it that far. I saw a snake. I immediately marched right over to my cousin’s house across the road and ask if he’d like to come kill a snake. He gets his gun and he comes over. Can’t kill it with a gun because it’s on the wall behind the steps below the front door. So he had to find a big stick and smash it’s head in. Well. It finally stopped squirming around and he pulled the stick away, it stayed where it was for a minute but while they went to find something to get it off the porch with it fell behind the steps and probably it’s nerves moved it into the indention of the porch steps (they’re hollow). SO. There is a dead snake on our porch until Dad and my younger brother get home tomorrow to remove it.
Now I’m scared to death to go to the bathroom, into my sister’s room and now also scared to sit on the porch steps which is where I usually set with Brownie (my oldest dog).
I HATE THEM! I cannot stand them! I need to move to a place where they are extremely unlikely to be! I HATE SNAKES! Needless to say, the garden did not get watered this evening! It’s also time to put out some more mothballs!
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June 11th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Mothballs for snakes? I thought they kept cats away.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:52 am
I’m with you on this one, Andy. Even pictures of snakes give me the shivers. So, yeah. I advise you to just stay in the house until you can afford to move to the South Pole. I understand they don’t have a lot of snaked there.
June 12th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Sharon - Yup. Seriously. My grandparents and my step Mom’s family swear by it. They put them out when it gets to be snake season. I think they do work because when we put them out last year we didn’t see anymore around the house.
Tim - Thanks, Tim. I was looking for a place on the globe to move to where there wasn’t a lot of snakes. I’d rather put up with polar bears and penguins than snakes!
June 17th, 2007 at 3:05 am
I was out in my shed yesterday, and I kept getting visited by some large flying bug like a wasp or something. I hate all stinger-baring creatures, and it was really getting annoying. It eventually decided to fly away and leave me a alone, which was a relief.
June 17th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Shawno - I keep getting stung by these big black flying things, too. I have no idea what they are and I don’t know they are on me until they sting me! It’s really annoying, too! Usually a few hours later there will be these huge bug bite spots (usually on my back) and they itch like crazy.
June 17th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Somehow, I’ve managed to not get stung in a long time. But every year when I was a kid, it’d happen to me at least once per summer. Guess that’s why I hate those little bastards so much.
June 17th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Shawno - This is sort of a related story. I learned my lesson to not mess with bees or hornets. When I was little, probably 5, I went outside and saw a hornets nest and I got a big long stick and I started hitting the nest with the stick. That didn’t really make them very happy, as you can imagine.
June 17th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
When I was a teenager, a friend of mine did the exact same thing. I remember running out of his yard and down the street as the bugs began to swarm out of the nest. That was one of the incidents where I was stung. Of course, a lot of us felt the wrath of stingers that day.