Posted on 05/04/2012 7:31:41 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
I don’t mind chicken snakes, even though they do give me the creeps, but the others....I’d kill each and every one, wellll maybe not the rat snakes or green garden snakes.
In the wood business, we ran into a lot of copperheads, and those buggers are bad news. I’ve removed some heads of those critters. I’ve not had the “pleasure” of cotton mouths or rattlers. I don’t intend to meet any of those in the near future. Hopefully....we do have a lake about 300 feet from our front yard and a stock tank in the pasture. So far, I’ve not seen a snake..of any kind in my yard.
Hubby is a Texan, I’m an Alaskan, where I come from we don’t have slithering ones, only 2 legged ones. Hubby told me, if the snake has a triangular head, watch out, it is not a friend of man. The copperheads I’ve beheaded had triangular heads.
OH THANK YOU MISSMAGNOLIA!!!! Now where can I find a lilac so I can mix it with mayo? I don’t know if they thrive in Texas, central Texas.
Now, I’ve not known of a brown snake, except in NY. We have them down here? Are they bad news?
What is the diameter of your pots? I’m thinking of making some for fall and winter planting.
My brother hunts deer with a bow, at least he did 3 years ago. He really likes it.
I plant only 1 seed per pot too. I’ve always blamed it on my Scottish heritage. Last summer I found 2 plants coming up IN THE SAME POT...I gingerly and carefuly cut the pot in half and planted the beans in the molasses pot. They never realized they were siamese plants. lol
How neat and creative. I hope you continue the creativity.
I use a 2” PVC coupling to wrap the paper around; and a piece of 1-1/2” PVC with a cap (just slipped on, not glued) for the piston.
That makes a pot 2” diameter, and nearly 3” tall, so their is plenty of potting soil in it, just in case the weather causes a planting delay of a few days.
Many FReeper Years ago a member from New Mexico posted a thread about a snake that was under her desk and she had her foot on it to immobilize it while she pleaded for help to identify it and what to do about it. The thread went to 200 or 300 post and when help came it turned out to be a little (?) Western Diamondback...
Holy snakebite! A “little” Western Diamond Back could be highly poisonous. And I think that it would be hard to immobilize it unless you were stepping on its head!
I don't think so. hen I lived in the Houston, TX area, we used crepe myrtles as a substitute for lilacs. It didn't get cold enough for lilacs to thrive and bloom.
'HollySprings' made this comment: Grow buddilea instead. It's often called "summer lilacs" and it will bloom all summer into fall and be evergreen for most of the South for winter. It also smells heavenly and makes great bouquets from June through October, which a once blooming lilac most certainly won't. Most lilacs require too many chill hours for even zone 7ers, and the hotter the summers, the more chill hours needed.
She didn't mention if it was edible or not - that requires some more research .... no quick answer seen. :-)
Today... I moved 16 tons of number 9 Compost and what did I get... another day older and deeper in dirt...
I agree .... and from a distance for sure! I’ve seen very ‘yellowish’ ones early spring after shedding (looked like a darn python, as big around as my arm & I was with a biologist so we’re sure it was a Timber) and one that was so dark it almost looked black in mid-fall. The “prettiest” one I ever saw was lying across the trail, head cocked funny, looked dead initially until my snake-hating companion got a long stick & tried to move it. Instant angry rattler coiled smack dab in a sun puddle in the middle of the trail. The sun on its skin illuminated the colors and as mad/scary as it was, it was gorgeous! Turns out, it had killed a mouse & was holding it in preparation to eating it which is why it got angry at being disturbed. Hopefully, after we cleared out, it was able to go back to eating dinner.
I have received kind notes from people for linking the previous threads, which is about all I have had time to keep up with.
Anybody with ideas on how to make the threads more useful -- please let us know. There is so much good info exchanged on these threads.
If a venomous snake is not close to the house, I'll let it slide unless it behaves badly toward me, at which time it will meet Mr. 20 Gauge in a hurry. Copperheads, moccasins and rattlers have their function and I don't kill them for minding their own business, unless they are inside the fence where the dogs play.
Every time I've ever killed a snake just for the sake of killing it, I've (1) felt guilty; and (2)experienced some kind of negative snake encounter fairly soon thereafter.
Problem with the brown water snake is that it can look like a couple of snakes that are venomous, unless you get a good look at the head, which is slimmer.
I hunt whitetail, mule deer and Rocky Mountain elk with a bow and enjoy it very much. I’ve never turkey hunted with a bow, but am thinking that it would be enjoyable as well. A darn turkey detects the slightest of movement though, and I would think hunting from a good ground blind would help. I just happen to have a couple of ground blinds, so I may give it a try. They have nylon screen windows that a broadhead will slice right through.
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