Scott65
Silver Member
You folks talking about living in places without these creatures, I wouldn't know what to do. Growing up all my life in west Texas, it's just a way of life I suppose. I've been fortunate enough to be in a rural setting much of my upbringing, and now later in life I've gotten married and purchased land and moved back to the middle of nowhere. Life is exciting when you know you might die from a 1/2 inch long squishy little bug, ha.
I don't have a picture of the first snake of the year. It was a foot long bull snake, laying in the window of the back door of the old farm house we're remodeling, with his tail draped over the doorknob. The second one was this one, sitting about 2 feet outside the front door of the motorhome (home while we're remodeling), on my way to work:
Pretty much all of the worst nasty creatures that people always talk about, they are everyday occurrences here. Black widows, brown recluse, wolf spiders, scorpions, cottonmouths (that the idiot kissed), rattlers by the thousands, skunks, porcupines, mountain lions... I guess we don't have bears though
I see nearly all of those, nearly every day. I love Texas.
The only reason I killed the one in the picture, as they eat other snakes, is my wife has 2 new young ankle biter dogs that are curious about everything. They would be scarred for life. I was late for work and didn't have time to relocate it, so it had to go.
I don't have a picture of the first snake of the year. It was a foot long bull snake, laying in the window of the back door of the old farm house we're remodeling, with his tail draped over the doorknob. The second one was this one, sitting about 2 feet outside the front door of the motorhome (home while we're remodeling), on my way to work:
Pretty much all of the worst nasty creatures that people always talk about, they are everyday occurrences here. Black widows, brown recluse, wolf spiders, scorpions, cottonmouths (that the idiot kissed), rattlers by the thousands, skunks, porcupines, mountain lions... I guess we don't have bears though
I see nearly all of those, nearly every day. I love Texas.
The only reason I killed the one in the picture, as they eat other snakes, is my wife has 2 new young ankle biter dogs that are curious about everything. They would be scarred for life. I was late for work and didn't have time to relocate it, so it had to go.