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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.

[elainegrey]

Yes!

[elainegrey]

It was the fourth we've found here. Christine had bought snake "tongs" so we were prepared. I woke to find her still pretty distressed this morning; she's got a visceral fear of snakes and has had two encounters in the garage this summer. We'll buy some snake repellent and souse the space since she's in and out handling the garbage and the recycling all the time.

[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

[amaebi]

Thanks for explaining the snake-grabber.

I love snakes, but I find copperheads in human homes very distressing indeed.

[elainegrey]

My niece got an impressive photo of a rat hanging out on the street when she was in the city as my nephew started at NYU.

[elainegrey]

I'm pretty sure our snakes also like to keep out of loud humans way. I didn't want to say what i thought, which is that they've probably been quietly handling any rodents that have been attracted the recycling for a good while. Nope, let's just pretend it had accidentally blundered in recently.

[elainegrey]

I look forward to having the garage more finished so it's a little less liminal when determining inside vs outside.

[annie_r]

Late to this, but I keep my recycling/trash cans away from the house. Mostly b/c it's a pain to drag them up the gravel driveway. I have a small plastic bin in the kitchen to put recycling in temporarily. But they do blunder!