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[elainegrey]

8( Just used our snake grabber to haul a copperhead out from the garage. Also found a use for my hyper-local bitters from my own extracts, mint extract, green walnut extract, rose extract. The alcohol convinced it to move out of it's hidey corner and then -- once i had removed it, i splashed alcohol all across the garage door entry. Snakes.  Adrenaline plus here tonight.

Christine finds snakes extremely distressing but we both held it together. I'm not excited about a copperhead in the garage at all.  I want to get cinnamon oil and suffuse the house with it.

Comments

[lyr]

If only one could hire a mongoose the way one hires landscape goats...

[sonia]

Wow, good work recognizing and evicting it! I knew about copperheads growing up in Virginia, but I don’t think I ever encountered one. We saw lots of garter snakes and the like.

[cmcmck]

Thankfully we only have one venomous snake species here and they're woodland creatures who like to keep themselves to themselves.

[egret]

Terrifying! I'm glad everyone is OK.

Meanwhile in the boroughs of NYC, people are calling emergency services when they see a skunk, and then complaining on Facebook when emergency services hang up. LOL