Posts Tagged ‘snakes’
A baby snake! (and other stuff)
Last week I took some squash and tomatoes across the road. The kids came outside, their Mom was too busy to come to the door.
I noticed a screen topped aquarium on the porch. “Whatcha got in there?”
A snake. Ooh, really? I can’t see anything except some crickets and grasshoppers.
They did, they had the smallest baby snake I’ve ever seen. And insects for it to eat that there is NO WAY that poor baby could have eaten them.
To cut things short, I told them that it would probably die if they kept it, so could I take it and let it go?
Yep! So I brought it home, took some photos, and let it go in my flower bed.
Here are the pictures. That’s a regular sized mayonnaise jar to give you an idea of the size.
So, I have no idea what kind of snake it is. I don’t really care. I don’t like poisonous snakes in the yard, of course, but everything has a reason for living. And after I found out that we killed a king snake in the dog pen a few weeks ago… not knowing what kind of snake it was, and it was dark and upsetting the dogs… well, here I am putting a new snake into the yard. (King snakes are GOOD snakes, darn it)
I am not afraid of any kind of snake… have actually picked up a copperhead because I didn’t know what it was. And it was dark. And you know me, I’m fearless, lol! (plus I know how to handle snakes so as to not get bit)
Anyhow. I went back to work a week ago yesterday. Back to my old job that I got let go from back in February. Things are different, things are the same. The worst thing is that they no longer have a 3 min warning bell in the afternoon… it’s just a ONE min warning. That’s not enough time to clean up or anything. Heck, it’s hardly enough time to just DROP everything and get out of there. I guess the new kids they have there were lining up to clock out at the warning instead of cleaning up.
It ticks me off. I was always ready to dash out anyhow… I get to work at least 20 min early. I clean, I set up, I’m ready and probably working before the day starts. I don’t live right around the corner, tho, so I want to LEAVE when it’s time, not still be putting stuff away. I NEED that 3 min in the afternoon. Grrr.
Otherwise the job is good. I’m stuck off by myself with good soldering irons and a microscope, and I’m changing parts out on DVD player boards. Boring, sort of, but I don’t have to deal with anyone else most of the time. Hey, electronics assembly IS pretty boring. I need to find out the personal music player policy… I might finally need to get myself that MP3 Player I’ve sort of wanted for a while.
This is all for tonight…
