Re: today

Heck yes....we have a blue racer in our side yard.  I WANT him to
stay.  He eats the mice that sneak into my house from the porch.  He's
big, and he's FAST.  And they DO bite...not poisonous, but they will
bite.  I think it bit Nora (our raccoon) cause her nose swelled up and
looked bad for a few days.  We saw the snake over there one day...I'm
sure it was eating the mice that congregate around her food bowl.
'Bout two weeks after that, I saw the snake over there and so did
Nora...she made a bee-line for the upstairs of her "condo".
On a farm, those snakes come in very handy.  The mice would over-run
us because of all the feed bags and such....so those snakes are
welcome in my barn and farm.


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Pam Evans<gardenqueen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Amazing.  Some people get totally weirded out by snakes.  I have a pair of
> really pretty green & black garden snakes.  All the mice are gone - yay.
> They're ok by me.
>
> On 7/9/09, Jesse Bell <justjess01@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> O.K., that's just SILLY!!  To never go back outside or enjoy your
>> front porch because you saw a snake.  Lordy.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95
>> CS/SCOSI<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>> > After we bought our current house the neighbors told us about the
>> > previous owners. The woman had opened the front door one day and saw a
>> > snake. Probably a gopher snake, although it was long enough ago there
>> > could have been the occasional rattler. Anyway from then on she didn't
>> > go outside. She got into her car from the door into the garage, drove
>> > out to the mailbox to get the mail and drove back in.
>> > We still have a cat they left behind too. They must have had 20 or more
>> > black cats, maybe they were breeding for eye color since some of them
>> > had almost florescent green eyes, but they weren't caged. We were
>> > catching cats for weeks.
>> >
>> > Cyndi
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> > Behalf Of james singer
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:43 AM
>> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] today
>> >
>> > All this snake stuff reminds me of when I finally got the plantation
>> > listed for sale. First group to come look was an Eastern European
>> > couple [I decided this based on his haircut and how they sort of
>> > resembled the Ukrainians across the street] and one of their mothers.
>> > While the agent and the couple were ranging through the rooms, the
>> > older woman came over to me and asked in a low voice, almost a
>> > whisper: "Are snakes here?" I smiled. "This is Florida, ma'am," I
>> > said. "There are snakes everywhere." They decided not to buy the house.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Inland Jim
>> > Willamette Valley
>> > 44.99 N 123.04 W
>> > Elevation 148'
>> > 39.9" Precipitation
>> > Hardiness Zone 8/9
>> > Heat Zone 5
>> > Sunset Zone 6
>> > Minimum 0 F [-15 C]
>> > Maximum 102 F [39 C]
>> >
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