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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 5:46:16 PM
I am not going back in there ever again! It was 2 feet from me the whole time I was milking all 7 goats, too. 2 feet from me! I am still shook up. I had just finished milking them all and was reaching up under the shelf to pick up the foot trimers that had fallen down the other day. I had to move a feed sack and there it was, plain as day. Then it was like less than a foot from me. I screamed sl loud and ran out as fast as I could. My SIL had just gotten home so he went in and can't find it anywhere. Poor Sadie Mae Belle still on the stanchion, too. He was in there 20 minutes looking all over. Couldn't find it. It's still in there, I know it.
So I had Jeff drag all 3 stanchions out on the driveway and that's where I'll be milking from now on. The feed barrel's out there, too. Now I just need to figure out how to get the refrigerator out there. Because I can't go in there anymore.
This morning when I went in to get started milking I thought I saw a little mouse tail going up under the fridge. I bet it was a snake tail now. In there the whole day and still in there now. Not dead, but alive as I am. I hate snakes!! Why does there have to be snakes in this world anyway? Shoot! And I can't even imagine me being in there and that snake was less than 2 feet from my feet. The whole dad blame time. Now I'll dream about snakes. Oh, I hate snakes.
Kris
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 4:55:22 PM
Yeah, I'm thinking I might have gone a little overboard on them. I am smelling them on my clothes right now. I just milked and it's really bad in there. I do have a fan but it's not moving the smell out. I will probably take about half of them out. It did say not to inhale them. I do.
Thanks for the info, Teresa.
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 3:08:33 PM
do remember that moth balls are poisenous, keep them away from the animals, kids and of course your milk
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 2:52:27 PM
Hey Tina, Nope, haven't seen a thing. I can't stay in there too long though with all the nasty moth ball smell! Too nasty. It almost smells like there's gas in them.
Sounds like ya'll had fun. I would love to have a quilting bee. A class sounds fun. Have you already met Karin before?
I e-mailed you, too.
Kris
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| Especially For You |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 1:48:37 PM
Hi Kris,
Just been busy!!! Had a great time this past Sat. Karin from Ellenwood came over and we took a quilting class together. Her sister came up from FLA and came also. How is the slithery problem? I hope you have had no more sightings. My garden is just about gone need to pull everything up and plant for fall. Thats what is going on here. E-mail me and maybe we can get together.
Tina |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 4:09:57 PM
I got 4 big boxes and put 2 in the milk room. Ugh! So nasty. I can hardly go in now! I have the fan running. I hope the goats don't try to eat any. I have them all swept up to the wall. I smell like a moth ball. It's on me.
Kelly, I hope there is no sign of a snake when ya'll are here. I am doing all I can to make them go away. Do you have white sage? Alee said I should burn some white sage to ward off evil snake vibes in there. I have some sage I think, but it's green and yellow. I should try that, too.
Kris
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| KellyWall |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 1:13:24 PM
Now I see why you need the moth balls!!! Snakes are scary creatures! |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 09:16:15 AM
Oh please, no! I am already having a hard enough time trying not to think of snakes crawling all in the walls of the house and milk room right now. I see them all over or what looks like them. Anything long and laying around. Oh, I need help! I am going today to buy as many boxes of moth balls I can find and will look for the snake away stuff. Although I think I have seen that and of course there is a picture of a snake on the front. I know, it's awful. But thanks for the info, Tina. Where have you been? Haven't seen you around lately. I hope you're ok just busy.
Kris
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| Especially For You |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 08:35:31 AM
Kris,
just got back from Lowes, saw something for you called "Snake Away" I don't know if it works but maybe. My question is if you put this down or the moth balls what happens to the snakes that are alreadyn there< do they say in the perimiter? I hope not.
Tina |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 07:50:15 AM
Snake proof fence? Wow. I need that. Of course I thought with all these ole guineas it was pretty snake proof. I will look now. Thanks, Sherri.
Kris
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 10:11:31 PM
Nope, no pictures of snakes! Only text and a drawing of how to set up the glue boards and a snake proof fence around your house.
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 7:21:40 PM
I surveved milking in the milk room. But the whole time I'm freaking out about a snake falling on me from the ceiling or it climbing around in the walls. They're block walls, too. I tried not to think about it too much, but I think I will always be looking. I had to go get milk just now and saw a frog. So I guess if there was a snake still in there that there would not be a frog? I sure hope that's a good sign.
Kris
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| PineConeAcres |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 2:58:50 PM
No snakes here LOL I live in Alberta Canada, must be to cold for them up here. I would have freaked out too. |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 1:38:10 PM
I know. I would. I am not that heartless. I was kind of kidding.
My SIL and daughter just helped clean out the milk room. He got all the bags and trash and it's all burning. I would have taken them to recycle but none of that will enter my car. Not with a snake on the loose. Sorry. I hate to burn all that but maybe we got the snake. Anyway we got it all cleaned out and washed with the hose with soap and scrub brushes and brooms. Got the stanchions all cleaned up drying in the sun. He looked all under the fridge. Blew it out with the air compressor. We discovered a drain in the corner. It comes in handy when I need to hose it down in there.
So I think I can get all the stanchions back in and feel a little safer now that I can see what's in there. There was even piles of hay where mice could have been and the snake was just after them. So it's all gone and clean. I can't believe I am such a messy farmgirl. I will not be stockpiling feed sacks ever again or putting bales of hay in there. I think this ole gal has learned her lesson.
But I am so thankful for Jeff, my SIL. He is so handy to have around. He can fix anything and he's young and strong. He weed eats all over and he's going to refix the busted water pipe. It's still got a leak somewhere. I didn't think anything about a leak. I just thought it was neat that we had a little frog pond. What are all the frogs going to do now?
SO I am a happy milker again. Thanks for all the suggestions and help. I will get the moth balls tomorrow while I'm out in town. I'm making cheese while we do all this. It's resting now for an hour. So am I.
Kris
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 11:27:41 AM
Kristen, if its a non-poisenous snake, PLEASE have someone re-locate it for you, if people continue to up-set the eco-system and kill off all the predators, we will be in a world of hurt
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 10:31:52 AM
Are there pictures of snakes on the link. Cuz if there is I can't look. But I get the idea. Maybe they'll stay put so someone can chop off their head! I like that idea! But does it stay where the snake can't just drag it along with it? It seems like it would just get it's first few inches onto the sticky part. Not the whole snake. Oh what a mess. I hope it's long gone and keeps going.
Kris
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 10:20:16 AM
Here is a link that tells you how to use the sticky boards on large snakes.
http://msuextension.org/publications/OutdoorsEnvironmentandWildlife/MT199617AG.pdf
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 09:59:54 AM
Bad snake.
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| marthaellen |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 09:19:35 AM
You know the sticky boards people put down in mouse and rat runs to catch them? I'm pretty sure there is also one stronger for bigger snakes. (Be sure to get someone to take it far away from your milk parlour!) A little dish soap and some water and it'll be able to free itself without harm to anything but it's dignity. Call a pro exterminator, they'll be able to either sell you the board or tell you if it's feasable.
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 08:01:32 AM
I'm with you gals, snakes terrify me - I don't care if they're poisonous or not, six inches or ten feet, I just can't cohabit with snakes! We have had our place in Montana for about 15 years and I still have not seen a snake over there - our neighbors saw a lot last year. I told my dh the first time I see a snake, I don't care if it's a rattlesnake or a bull snake, I'm done - never going back. I totally know how you feel Kristin!
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 07:18:05 AM
Alee, where do I get white sage?
Kris
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 26 2009 : 07:16:59 AM
Teresa, I am ok with it. I know I shouldn't be such a wimp, but I just am. I wish I could get over this fear. I know it's not good to have such fear and that I should have more faith that God will take care of me and all that. But still, it's there and probably always will be. I will just always hate snakes, good or bad. So don't worry about anything. I know it's just strange for anyone living in the country on a farm to be this way.
Alee, my hubby said the same thing. I will go and buy the store out of all the mothballs I can find. And get rid of a bunch od no good worthless cats and dogs wile I'm at it!
Marly, I'll have so many mothballs in the milk room that when I ever go back in there to milk, the nilk will taste like a big moth ball in a glass!
Thanks ya'll, for all the help. I had to go back in to get the worm medicine this morning because I didn't get the doe kid last night. I had to get Kansas to go in with me. And of course it's way in the back. I had my tall boots on and hit the walls and floor and hollered loud for 10 minutes before we went in. Never saw any sign of it. But Kansas went in with me and I was ok. She kept saying it'll be ok, Mimi. What a good little farmgirl she is to protect her big ole chicken Mimi. She got a book from the library about snakes so she could see what good snakes and bad snakes look like for me.
It sure is cooler to milk outside anyway. It's hot in that room. But the flies bug me too much.
Kris
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 9:08:08 PM
Kristin:
My husband hates snakes, too!!!!!!! I'm the snake killer around here, LOL!!!!! That would have scared the crap out of me. Like Alee mentioned, my husband puts moth balls all over his workshop. Once he thought there was a snake in the attic of the house. That man put so many moth balls we had to sleep at my sisters house for the night. Hope the snake leaves your place for good.
Marly
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| peapicker |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 9:05:07 PM
Yes, I have heard that moth balls repels them. I heard this from a plumber that goes under houses. |
| Alee |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 8:31:37 PM
Oh Kris! I am so sorry that your milking room has become "contaminated"! Maybe burning some white sage will chase the snakey vibes away and I hear they don't like moth balls.
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 8:21:14 PM
Kristin, please forgive me, I do not mean to be mean /cruel, I did not realize that you have a phobia about snakes, and my D-in-Law just ripped me a new one about.It is all new to me, and I guess I am lucky that I don't have to worry about it, especially since where I live there are tons of them. Again, I am very sorry.
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