I guess I am finally growing up. I just killed my 1st snake!!!

the yr that we have lived in this house, we have lauhed at my YS for always checking for snakes in the pool before he gets in to it.

Well, this morning I was doing 1 of my favorite activies just enjoying the peace & quite by the pool, was walking the edges of the pool thinking about skimming for derbies. When what do I see this little snake having a merry old time swimming around. My 1st reaction was to get OS & then I thought I can do this, so I get my hammer & hunt the snake, it had moved (no glasses for me), finally located it, skimmmed it out & bashed it to snake heaven. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

Thank goodness YS is not home. OS was disgusted that I woke him up to just look at my snake kill. He says it is just a grass snake but in my bk a snake is a snake is a snake & the only good one is dead. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

Hahaha,

I grew up in Southwest Colorado and there were Rattlesnakes and watersnakes all over the place.

My uncle used to tease me when I was little saying that he was going to put a watersnake in my mom's pocket. I grew up hating snakes as well. I have almost stepped on several Rattlesnakes and have learned that they sound nothing like they do on the movies. They have a buzzing sound, not a rattle sound, at least all of the ones that I have heard.

I had to smile, because I used to go swimming in an irrigation ditch as a kid and almost invariably we would end up "tracking" a water snake to its secret lair. Just imagine about 4 or 5, 7 year olds patrolling a ditch about 20 feet across and 4 feet deep, heads at nose level, stalking a half inch round, foot long terror of the deep.

Salute <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Thanks for bringing back my smile today.

Go sing, go!

I'm thinking of that Helen Reddy song... "I am Woman!"

Hugs,
Cali

That is one less snake you will have to worry about!!!

I hat them, I hate them!!

We lived in a house when first married, and we killed 12 of them one summer. They would take turns laying on the front door step sunning themselves, the mailman would whistle so that I would go bang the door so he could get to the step and put the mail in the box!!

I hate them!!! You did good!! I seen one a couple of nights ago out in my yard, so now I care the hoe with me out in the yard!!

Dawn <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

You go girl!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Good for you Sing!!!

We have had a lot of snakes in our back yard this year too. Oooooh, I hate them. I call my daughters to come and kill them. My son just wants them for a pet. Yuck..

Good job Sing <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

I've got my own snake story. But I did get a smile out of yours.

For about 8 or 9 years, we have had a birdhouse on one of the trees in my back yard.....but never any birds in it. This year I periodically saw something in the opening to the house but I never got a good look at it.

When the diplomat was here, he asked my children what lived in the house and they had no idea. So, one day, while he was here alone, he was working on something and decided to took a peak in the birdhouse. Surprise! Surprise!! There was a large snake curled up in there.

A couple of days later, working outside again, he decided to bang on the birdhouse and terrorize the snake. The half-rotten birdhouse fell of the tree and crashed onto the ground at his feet. He decided it was time to come in.

I went outside to check on the snake when I heard about this. It was long gone. I used a stick to pick up the house and drop it into the trash can.

There's no telling how that snake got there. Or how long it had been in there. But it did, when I peaked, look like a very healthy creature. We think it was a milk snake.

I've learned to cope with it when I see the garter snakes. Don't alarm the children. Haven't seen one of them in a couple of years. I'm just glad to know they're out there doing their part for the environment and leaving me alone.

Oh, when I was a child, my father found a copperhead in our carport and went to get a shovel to decapitate it. They did show me the snake before he got to it. My response on seeing it and hearing that daddy was going to kill it was, "Kill it easy, daddy."

Thanks for sharing your story with us.