Doesn't Duane Campbell live in that area? Carol Wallace, who used to be on
this list lived in that region IIRC, but she was very ill with stenosis (?)
the last I knew. Have a wonderful time!
Margaret L
Gardening in Intermountain West and Handicapped gardening
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Tell him "hi" from me, and see what he says...
> Yep, Duane is on our lists of stops. We'll be visiting him on Monday.
> Lee Ann
Margaret L
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Karen,
You probably didn't stick around long enough, but did you see any =
identifying marks on the snake? I've never seen a snake that long in the =
wild here in western PA. Do you have any neighbors missing a pet snake? =
8-)
I just came in from the greenhouse. I have a few small plants I still =
haven't gotten around to planting outside, and since I'm leaving on =
vacation on Sunday, I gave them a good watering and filled the watering =
can up so my brother can take care of them while I'm gone. (He's staying =
here with my mother for the week while I'm gone.) Maybe by the time I =
return, some things will have died and I'll have room for them in the =
garden.
Speaking of vacation, anyone on the list live in northeastern PA, =
especially Susquehanna County? That's where we're heading. Still =
engaged, not married yet, but going to the Poconos! I always do things =
backwards.....
I had a scary experience yesterday. I was out on the bedroom deck
watering my planter boxes and 2-3 feet from me was a snake coiled up on
the stone ledge and I never saw it. I nearly died of fright when I did.
I had moved back a foot or so when I actually caught it move slightly =
out
of the corner of my eye. I had the Raid can with me because I had
sprayed a wasp that was trying to nest at the other end, and I just
automatically grabbed the Raid and let the snake have it. Too funny.
Guess he didn't like it cause he slithered off the deck and away as fast
as he could. I called David, but by the time he got his workboots on =
and
got out there, the snake was nowhere to be found. I just hope it isn't
living around my deck - passing through I wouldn't mind so much. Now,
I'm half-afraid to go on the deck. I slam the screen before I open it
and go out, hoping to scare anything off, and I keep checking all around
me. That snake was easily 5-6 feet long. Maybe a taste of the Raid
will discourage him from coming back. Do snakes remember? They've got
tiny little brains. I guess not. LOL
Karen in Pittsburgh, PA (zone 5b/6)
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Yep, Duane is on our lists of stops. We'll be visiting him on Monday.
Lee Ann
Doesn't Duane Campbell live in that area? Carol Wallace, who used to be =
on
this list lived in that region IIRC, but she was very ill with stenosis =
(?)
the last I knew. Have a wonderful time!
***Repeat after me: We on Gardens are a happy family. We love one another. We are friends.***
You mean HE didn't stick around long enough after I hit him with the
Raid. He was about 1 1/2" thick in the middle where he was fattest.
Just looked like an ordinary snake to me. He wasn't dark, dark black,
but sort of a brown & black. He had white Raid on him.
the sun, teeny-tiny little head, sort of looked like a very big milk
snake, except that if he had the white line, it wasn't very noticeable,
or I wasn't in the mood to notice. He barely fit on the ledge, he was
around the corner of it on both sides, and when he was slithering off was
when I saw how long he was.
Nobody has called and said they lost a snake. LOL He didn't look like
anything special. David wondered if he's been living under the front
deck for years and we just never knew? It would probably make a nice
home. David saw him too briefly, between my first shout and running to
put on his workboots. He grabbed a pair of loppers, do you believe it?
I asked what he was going to do with them and he said cut it's head off.
I just wanted him to move it somewhere else, but he said there's no way
he could move a snake that big with a shovel and a rake. The loppers
would have been too short anyway - he'd be within striking range and need
the pole pruner.
old and won't live after this year anyway. What's the life span on
snakes? It better not get any bigger. Last summer I saw a big 4-5'
snake slithering down the driveway over the hill into the woods, wonder
if this could be the same one a year older? How big do corn snakes get?
Karen in Pittsburgh, PA (zone 5b/6)
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:12:11 -0400 Lee Ann Reiners
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Here is a site for snake ID that covers KY and nearby so not exactly your
neighborhood, but might give you some pointers on what to watch for:
http://www.kentuckysnakes.org/how2.cfm
-----Original Message-----
From: Gardens & Gardening [mailto:GARDENS@LSV.UKY.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen
Barker
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:00 PM
To: GARDENS@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Snakes and NE PA, was Re: I'll leave - not!
You mean HE didn't stick around long enough after I hit him with the
Raid. He was about 1 1/2" thick in the middle where he was fattest.
Just looked like an ordinary snake to me.
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I made that mistake once! Not again! 8-)
Lee Ann
Tell him "hi" from me, and see what he says...
> Yep, Duane is on our lists of stops. We'll be visiting him on Monday.
> Lee Ann
Margaret L
Gardening in Intermountain West and Handicapped gardening
http://www.margaretlauterbach.com
***Repeat after me: We on Gardens are a happy family. We love one =
another. We are friends.***
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Wouldn't it be nice if Duane AND Alan came back to our list????!!!!!!
Sorry, I couldn't help myself!
--Kathy K
> -----Original Message---------------------------------------------------
LeeAnn Reiners
> Subject: Re: Snakes and NE PA, was Re: I'll leave - not!
> Yep, Duane is on our lists of stops. We'll be visiting him on Monday.
> Lee Ann
Margaret Lauterbach wrote:_________________________
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Correct handling of flowers refines the personality.
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Probably faint.
Robin
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Correct handling of flowers refines the personality.
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We're both on the garden writers' list, and he hasn't attacked me after an
initial parry.
> Probably faint.
> Robin
Margaret L
Gardening in Intermountain West and Handicapped gardening
http://www.margaretlauterbach.com
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Correct handling of flowers refines the personality.
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