I think I’m a fairly simple girl. Sure I complain about my house from time to time – it’s too dark, it’s hard to clean, the closets are small – but for the most part I’m satisfied. I don’t really need anything bigger, and I’m pretty sure I’d be in trouble with a Homeowners Association if I lived in a neighborhood.
But how much is a woman supposed to endure? This morning, I packed up my laptop and headed to the basement where our office is located. Only a portion of the basement is finished. It has a playroom for MP, and an office area for me and JD. The rest is behind a door where there’s no sheet-rock and lots of junk. For the most part I stay out of it. I did, HOWEVER, go into the laundry room to iron a dress for MP before school.
So there I sat minding my business when JD went through the door to the laundry room, then quickly came back into the office.
JD: Don’t open this door!
Me: What is it? Is it a dead rat?
JD: Uh, it’s not anything DEAD.
Me, starting to panic: What is it? A opossum, a live RAT?
JD: Wait here.
No biggie, just a 3 foot snake SKIN. Found in the doorway of the laundry room where I had been IRONING.
I’m pretty sure our neighbors heard me scream. My neighbors in TENNESSEE heard me scream. And I might have stood in my chair. It’s all a blur, really.
The good news is that JD has assured me the snake is gone.
Me: I want you to move all of the furniture, every toy away from the walls and find it!
JD: Honey, it’s so darn big, we couldn’t miss it.
It doesn’t make me feel as good as you might think.
*What the Sam Hill?
Your dad said to tell you they sell snake away at Lowes.
That’s a Copper Headed Water Rattler for sure. I’d burn the house just to be on the safe side.
Ewwwwww…….how does he know it’s gone???…..just asking!!!!
Look on the bright side, snakes eat rats…..HaHa
I heard that a 3′ Tiger Rattlesnake espcaped from Zoo Atlanta late last week. They’ve been searching ever since… It is a female so maybe, like you, it took longer than normal to travel north on 75.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/tiger-rattlesnake-escapes-zoo-atlanta-20100828-ap-es
Don’t worry about the zoo rattler it is dead. Heard that on the news.
If you can send me some close up photos of the skin, I can probably tell you what kind of snake it is … or at least tell you if it was likely a dangerous snake or not. I wouldn’t worry at all; a snake skin does not mean that a snake “lives” where you found it, merely that it visited it once. They get a bad reputation and we’re all taught from a young age to hear and hate them, and most find them to be amazing animals if they stop freaking out long enough to watch them.
I was swimming in my pool with my grandson yesterday and looked over and saw a snake in there with us. I surprised myself by getting between the snake and Elijah since I’m so terrorized by snakes! Ann came out and scooped it up and killed it (after I made a bee-line to get out of the water with E). One of my friends told me her friend in Alabama just got in her pool (also with a grandchild) and there was a water moccasin! So, it could have been worse for me, but I can’t stop thinking about it. And watching for the mama to show up. The fact that they never travel alone doesn’t comfort me much either.