Snakes!!

Goodness snakes...YES, my summer is quite slithery...they seem to be residing everywhere this year! I am slowly in my old age, getting rid of my paranoia's about that cold ... cold friend of Mother Natures! But I am also finding, here, in the Gulf Islands...that it is a "buggy" year, too! Lot's more wasps, mosquitoes, flys, etc....BUT also, a lot more swallows, robins, dragonflys..and SNAKES! Usually after we have a winter like last (coldest, snowiest since I have lived here---30 years) there is a demise in lots of these creatures...NOT this year! This is Canada Day...so am taking the rest of the day OFF! Went to work at 3:30 this morn, so done for the day...let the lawns grow, I'm putting my feet up...and maybe some Cheers!

I thought tubing was supposed to be gentle and relaxing. How did you get so roughed up? I've been wanting to go tubing but not if I'm going to get injured. So what did you do when you saw the snake? I don't know if I would be able to remain calm. We don't have them around here but I have seen them before on different vacations and camping trips that I have taken in the past.

OMGODH, DID u jump back in/ tHINK I WOULD HAVE. They are bad here to. i have a friend that lives in the country & she has been fighting them all summer. The last one she killed was about 5' long & she said it was as big around as the top of her arm. Needless to say she is ready to move, I don'tblame her. My friend in texas was talking about how bad they were there to. U BE CAREFUL.

Creepy, we have a snake problem here too. With us it's moccasins and rattlesnakes. Husband came in two-weeks ago and told me to call the dogs, there was a big moccasin by the front-steps. Sure enough, there lay a cotton mouth. I find helpful tips and stuff on a site called 'ThriftyFun', you don't get paid or anything. One day I was scrolling around and found a tip where this woman (I think it was a woman) said her dad sprayed the perimeter of the property with turpentine and although they live in snake country, they never had a snake near their home. I thought about trying it myself, couldn't hurt.

We seem to have our usual population of snakes, I like them because they help to keep the rodents down. The ones around the house are not poisonous. We do have an occasional rattle snake, but they stay in the rocks where it is safer for them. Snaked here don't bother me as long as i see them first.

There are no snakes here where I live, not even garter snakes. Unless you count the two legged ones...LOL. The only snake I saw in the wild was a garter snake in Nova Scotia and it put up a fight when I tried to catch it. I got him in a fish tank, no water, but he wasn't happy and I let him go. I did have a 5ft Boa that I got off someone but he was hard to handle and even though the kids liked him I ended up giving him away. It must be unnerving to have many around where you live, especially if you have kids who play a lot outside.

OMG! You take care dear. I haven't seen a snake except in the zoo. But my mom has bad experiences with them. They could be deadly and docile both. But, I am really scared of them.

Fortunately I do not see snakes up close very often. Most of the time when I saw snakes they were across the roads out in the country where I used to live. They were really long black snakes.

I'm not terribly afraid of snakes but I would prefer they keep their distance! We have snakes around here, or so I've been told. Living on a lake, we have some snakes, supposedly, living in and around the cattails growing beside the lake. I haven't seen any (knock on wood) but I do steer clear of those cattails now! The first year we lived here, I picked some of them to use in dried flower arrangements. (You have to spray them with many layers of clear enamel or they'll 'explode' from the heat of your house. I learned that the hard way. LOL That's the way they spread their seeds.) Anyway, I won't be collecting any more cattails, not unless I'm in a boat on the other side of them, away from the ground where the snakes hang out. I used to go fishing on a river in Maryland. It was a heavily wooded area and I would sometimes see a snake high tailing it outta there when I got near. They really are more scared of us than we are of them. It's only when they feel threatened or trapped that they attack. But, I'll never get close enough to them to put that statement to the test! At least, I hope I won't! We have a lot of woods here on our property and I do occasionally walk through them. However, if I hear ANYTHING underneath the leaves or behind a bush, I'll do an abrupt about-face!

I think that would put a real damper on my fun. I get pretty nervous when there are snakes around. Especially when my kids are close. Ugh!

We don't see many snakes in England but we do have slow worms a bit like a snake and nothing like a worm ,much fatter and they do slither under ground,I am really pleased as they clear up the pests from flower beds.I have made a log pile up the end of the garden and I think natural habitate will encourage them more,they don't bite or do any harm at all.As for dangerous snakes we do have adders but I have never come across one,grass snakes as well live in long grass but I have never come across one of those either.Watch were you put your feet.

I have the same situation as yours, sometime it is a poisonous snake such as cobra and it is give no choice to kill them on the spot since I have a little daughter at home and many other kids play around the area. BR.b

Hi Jen, Why did not you grab one of them? To be frank I too have snakes around my campus but that are harmless.

Snake Peeper LOL.. Hi Jen. Snakes have been around and out latley since it has been raining not sure if it has been over your way. But last year at the daycare that I work at I caught 3 snakes in the same day for the kids to look at then we set them free. It was funny cause every one was so shocked that I captured them and touched them.. Just recently it rained big time here and there were snakes out again. And the kids were on the deck and the kids saw a salamader and said go get me and I tried to pick it up but it was slittery. I was mad that I couldnt get it for them...

Hi Jen, where are you from? Here in Sydney Australia we are near the bush and there are stacks of snakes we see all the time. Some of them like the tree snake are harmless and good, the red belly black snake though gives me the shakes, I have a chair on the front steps and if I see one I hurl the chair at it. But seriously, most snakes if not all are more scared of us than we are of them!

yuckkk... i am so afraid of snake and if i see one, i think i will jump and shout really really loud... so far, fortunately i never have to encounter one in my area... the worst animal i had seen here is mouse... and even that i am already scared... take care and have a nice day...

Snakes creep me out so bad, my skin crawls every time I look or even think about a snake. I hate them I will be happy if I never encounter one in my whole life. I think they are a evil creature... oooooh I don't like them.

Doesn't look poisonous. If I KNOW they're not poisonous, I'm OK with snakes. The only venomous ones we have here are rattlers.

I've seen a lot more snakes around in the last two months than usual. We had a very wet cold winter and I think that the snakes, along with lots of other creatures, came out much later than usual but seem to be much more prolific than usual too. This is the first time I have actually taken precautions to keep snakes away from the house having found one inside a couple of weeks ago. We have some poisonous ones in this area so have to be careful. We've heard a lot more rustlings in the vegetation on the side of the lanes this year and often see snakes slithering away. Scary!

oh jenin. snake is highly rare in my area. i seldom watch a snake crawling in front of me. unfortunatly i killed more than three snakes by my bike. but it was just accidents. from that time i have seen snakes for two or three times( i have forgotten) now i am accusing of myself for the rarity of snakes. but i know it is not the actual matter. our environment does not support them.( it may be the cause). anyway i am regretting for those accidents still today. how are your little daughter? does not she love snake as well as turtle? hehehe. god bless her. thanks jenin.