Luckily the damn thing didn't bite me. I was getting ready to put the sprinkler on and felt something funny under my foot and looked down. LOL, I sure screamed funny. I got the hoe and held it down till Mack came and got the limb loppers and lopped off his head.
Getting a bit unnerving. We had one of these in the driveway last year. In 24 years we've found 3 rattlesnakes on our property, 2 in the last 2 years, both about the same size. Do these things nest in an area and stay there. This one had 2 rattle segments on his tail, so I don't think he was very old. EEWWWWW, scared me:), no more barefoot for me.
Becky