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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 11:51:56 AM
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Well), not really. This morning, while making coffee, Justin noticed this "unwelcome guest" on our shagbark maple--obviously going out for breakfast him (or her) self!
So, dh grabs my antique hay fork (which, incidentally is hanging on the wall in our living room) and goes outside to get the snake from the tree and eating baby birds and whatever else...CREEPY!
Now in the yard..
Taking it to the backyard...
Until the Snake gets mad and dh changes his mind and dumps it over the fence!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
2401 Posts
Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 3:07:25 PM
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Wow Jonni! Well Justin is way braver than I am, I got the creeps looking at it. But they were good photos you took.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 6:00:50 PM
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Yep, much braver than me, Lainey....everytime that darn snake moved around I hollered!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 6:30:02 PM
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We had an even bigger one last year, Karin. The snake guy at Univ. of Kentucky called it a black rat snake, and that it's very beneficial to our little "microcosm"...they eat rodents and small birds...which I guess is what he/she was crawling up the tree for. I don't want it eating my birds so I'll try to interfere with mother nature when I see it!
The whole time dh was fooling with it, I kept saying over and over (between squeals) like a mantra "it's beneficial, very beneficial, it's benefical...!"
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 6:33:17 PM
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Eeek! I just pulled my feet up under me. I know they are good snakes, but ew. The picture of your dh with the snake coming at him is very scary.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
Wherever you go, there you are.
www.madrekarin.blogspot.com
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
1891 Posts
Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 6:35:16 PM
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I did not know snakes could go up a tree like that. Have seen them in trees (in photos only), never thought about how it got there. Yikes. Are they harmless to humans and dogs, as in not poisonous?
I don't like snakes and rodents! So glad neither of my kids ever wanted them as "pets". |
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chicken necker
True Blue Farmgirl
509 Posts
Sherry
Eastern Shore
Maryland
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 6:44:26 PM
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Oh Jonni! I usually get such a kick out of your posts...but YAHEEEEEEEEE! My skin's crawling! Lordy, I HATE snakes!
FarmGirl Sister #123
Crafty Bay FarmGirls Chapter
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 7:03:30 PM
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I know...it was kind of a weird reality! When he yelled for me to come and look at the tree and then we went outside, I was just kindof stunned and we always have the camera handy so I wanted to take a photo. It must have realized we were very near because you could see the muscles tense up--CREEPY.
Ronna, I emailed the snake guy at U.K. because we found the first in the backyard last Spring, where the dogs go and run all over, so I didn't want them in harms way. He said they were harmless and normally would avoid human and predator contact...and we were incident free, so I'm hoping for the same this Spring!
Sorry, Sherri...normally my barnyard buddies post actuall ARE buddies and have much more fur :) I couldn't help but introduce the post like Al Pacino, "Say Hello to My Little Friend!"
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Apr 27 2008 : 10:17:30 PM
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Oh my....snakes in trees...now I will not be able to sleep at all tonight..yikes!!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
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Posted - Apr 28 2008 : 04:05:52 AM
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Sounds like a new tv show or movie -- a cross between 'Men in Trees' and 'Snakes on a Plane': SNAKES IN TREES!
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Forrester Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
703 Posts
Ann
Belmont
MI
USA
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
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Posted - Apr 29 2008 : 2:51:07 PM
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Wow Jonni! What great pictures and I am so glad you shared them with us!!! Your DH is a hero in my eyes! Saved the baby birds and spared the snake!
Hugs, Maryjane Lee
Farmgirl Sister #44
http://thebeehivecottage.blogspot.com
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Bfriday
True Blue Farmgirl
125 Posts
Jessica
Miles
TX
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Posted - Apr 29 2008 : 4:04:10 PM
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| WOW! Very cool pics! I feel for ya' We live in Texas and when we moved to our place it hadn't been kept up, We killed 7 rattlesnakes in the first six months we lived here. Crazy huh?! |
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Moonsanity
True Blue Farmgirl
107 Posts
Brenda
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Apr 30 2008 : 05:19:35 AM
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Snakes I can handle...it's things like BIG spiders that creep me out. But, I have also never seen a rattlesnake or one as big in the pics. YIKES!
~Brenda
Journey of Grace and Whimsy
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Apr 30 2008 : 05:58:11 AM
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Brenda, you and my husband are on the SAME page--he can do snakes, but NO spiders and NO camel crickets!
Ooooh, Jessica...this guy/gal? was harmless, but a 7 rattlers? Um, I'd be heading for the hills!
Thanks, Mary Jane...we love our little birds and chipmunks and the like and I said, "well, he's not going to kill those babies!!!" and out Jus went (with my antique hay fork off the wall--now I look at it and shiver!).
Oh, Ann, you'll be here before you know it :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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