Re: I want a medal

WOW - you GO Cyndi.  You deserve that drink, in fact - have two!   I was
proud of myself putting together this %$#*&@ cat tree deal I got for the
cat, but that was 1 1/2 hours of irritation, it didn't take bravery!  I may
join you in that drink actually now that her Cool Cat Clubhouse thing is put
together.  That's hard to do w/out an extra set of hands and not an enormous
amount of patience.

On 8/14/08, Jesse Bell <justjess01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dang...I would have just taken the bottle of tequila and sat down after
> that
> one.  I don't mind the good snakes in my yard/garden.  Just don't want to
> HANDLE one.  Cripes.
> Good job Cyndi.
>
>
> On 8/14/08, james singer <islandjim1@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Good for you.
> >
> > On Aug 14, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT
> > wrote:
> >
> > I came home last night and started watering this little corner of the
> >> back lawn we reseeded a couple weeks ago. We had put down bird netting
> >> over it to keep the dogs from digging it up while the grass got started.
> >> So I'm standing not terribly close spraying water and I see something
> >> moving...uh-oh. It was a 3 ft gopher snake caught up in the netting. I
> >> said bad words.  Seems every time we try to use that netting something
> >> living gets stuck in it, you'd think we'd know better by now. I looked
> >> and he was really tangled, he must have threaded himself through that
> >> mesh in 20 places. I wimped out for a moment and called husband's cell
> >> phone, but he was nowhere near being home. Damn. Now, I'm not really
> >> afraid of snakes, but somehow handling one not in a cage was making me
> >> mighty nervous. But I got my little pair of scissors, decided he
> >> couldn't move his head far enough to bite me, and started cutting him
> >> loose from the tail end. There I am trying desperately to see the fine
> >> plastic mesh and cut it off without cutting him, meanwhile the snake is
> >> thrashing around my hands. He never did hiss or try to bite me,
> >> thankfully, and finally I just grabbed behind the head and lifted him up
> >> so I could see better.   Eventually I got him loose and dropped him. He
> >> tried to go down a gopher hole near the lawn, but it was blocked about 4
> >> inches down so he just laid there with his head down the hole like an
> >> ostrich. I couldn't let the dogs loose until he was out of sight so I
> >> had to pick him up again and find him a hiding place.
> >> After I threw away the netting I  got myself a stiff drink. Sheesh!
> >>
> >> Cyndi
> >>
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> > Elevation 148'
> > Hardiness Zone 8/9
> > Heat Zone 5
> > Sunset Zone 6
> > Minimum 0 F [-15 C]
> > Maximum 86 F [30 C]
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> Jesse R. Bell
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