Well as a Texan I know that snakes are always a threat in fact while watering my tomato plants the other night I saw a copperhead slithering through my fence from my neighbors yard no big deal I sprayed it with the water hose and it went away. That was last week. Saturday night while watering my gardenia plants on the side of my house there is another one no biggie I won't hurt him he won't hurt me...
Forward to last night the Fourth of July when guess who tells her DH I am going to take the water hose to the side of the house and throw it over the back fence and soak those tomato plants because they look like crap. I sure hope I don't see any snakes. After all DH told me I need to start wearing pants and real shoes not flip flops but dang it is in the 90s everyday it is hot. So to my amazement I never saw the 18 inch long copperhead as I stepped on him while wearing flip flops and shorts. But I'll be damned if I did not feel him as he wrapped around my legs and bit one ankle and then the other. As I screamed and was trying to get away from him he chased me. DH and DS knew I was in trouble so they ran to my rescue ( It may have been the new vocabulary I was saying that attracted their attention or the moaning as It hurts like the dickens.) Yes my two brave men went to find the culprit so we could positively identify it to the hospital. They found it and killed it. I was trying to keep my composure as I was watched them kill this one I saw another slither through the fence so I screamed there is another one. It was just getting dark so they thought I was crazy or hallucinating they looked around and did not see what I knew I saw. A few moments later my DS heard something and turned around there was the one I saw coming after him. His father and him were already prepared so they killed this one too. It was even bigger than the one that got me. So for the Fourth of July I did what every American does I supported my local Hospital and Doctor.
And my ankles are really swollen !!!
Deflating Diva
Forward to last night the Fourth of July when guess who tells her DH I am going to take the water hose to the side of the house and throw it over the back fence and soak those tomato plants because they look like crap. I sure hope I don't see any snakes. After all DH told me I need to start wearing pants and real shoes not flip flops but dang it is in the 90s everyday it is hot. So to my amazement I never saw the 18 inch long copperhead as I stepped on him while wearing flip flops and shorts. But I'll be damned if I did not feel him as he wrapped around my legs and bit one ankle and then the other. As I screamed and was trying to get away from him he chased me. DH and DS knew I was in trouble so they ran to my rescue ( It may have been the new vocabulary I was saying that attracted their attention or the moaning as It hurts like the dickens.) Yes my two brave men went to find the culprit so we could positively identify it to the hospital. They found it and killed it. I was trying to keep my composure as I was watched them kill this one I saw another slither through the fence so I screamed there is another one. It was just getting dark so they thought I was crazy or hallucinating they looked around and did not see what I knew I saw. A few moments later my DS heard something and turned around there was the one I saw coming after him. His father and him were already prepared so they killed this one too. It was even bigger than the one that got me. So for the Fourth of July I did what every American does I supported my local Hospital and Doctor.
And my ankles are really swollen !!!
Deflating Diva
OH MY GOODNESS! I hope you recover quickly from those bites!
except for in the Rockies!!!
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