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by yellowrose of Texas on 24 July 2012 - 05:07
One of our former DB members , a dog trainer in TYLER, heard his 11yr old yelling from the BATHROOM>>>DADDY>>>>there is a water mocassin in here...SHE rushed out and he went to find this TEXAS RAT SNAKE... He did not kill it...he released it down back of property only to find a second one under the house..CAULK those drain holes in your bathroom.. I would not want to take a bath with a SNAKE>
YR
by vonissk on 24 July 2012 - 06:07
When I was a kid, my aunt lived in a house that all the kids--her brothers and sisters--were born in so you can imagine how old it was...she had no bathroom or running water. She had a small room that had a slop jar in it and rather than go outside in the middle of the night or when it was real cold, we went in there. Long story short there was a water moccasin curled up in a bucket in that room. I can remember that and of course being a child, it made it seem bigger than ever altho it was a good sized snake. I never wanted to go back in there and preferred to just go out and pee by the side of the house.
Good advice by the way to either caulk all holes or use that expanding spray stuff. I can do a lot of things but snakes of any flavor, scorpions or fiddlebacks are on my list of no nos.
Good advice by the way to either caulk all holes or use that expanding spray stuff. I can do a lot of things but snakes of any flavor, scorpions or fiddlebacks are on my list of no nos.
by yellowrose of Texas on 24 July 2012 - 06:07
VOnissk: WHen my late hubby married this city slikker , I had never been to the country.
We went on our honeymoon to meet MOM and DAD in Oklahoma.
NO toilet, no bathroom..did have water in Kitchen..THEN the tales started.
I had to hold it all night and then wait till dawn broke to run out to the outhouse..LOL
BUT The second night the family came and started the tales. Rooster in the outhouse would peck you so be on watch..then the creepy things dancing up from the Indian Cemetery down towards SAMS house on edge of property..SAM was CHOCTAW and my family was CHEROKEE>>>>Nuff said.
NExt tale was how my hubby use to walk backwards home from school down the PINE CREEK ROAD because you had to pipe sunlight in and the black panthers would creep up behind you,
Next tale was taking me SNIPE hunting...ha ha ha I fooled them ,,,At christian service camp in Tanglewood, Texas I got to snipe hunt...so that old bag trick BACKFIRED ON THEM
NEXT tale is the one that made me dip into our savings the next SUMMER and make sure a BATHROOM got built and a AIR COOLER got installed in living room and all holes in house CAULKED>
MOM went to kitchen one morning and told sister to get the flour bag our of top cupboard , up 7 ft at ceiling..SHE Climbed up and screamed...snake snake...and DAD came and pulled out a big BLACK CHICKEN SNAKE>
Yellowrose from the next summer on, stayed at the KINGS INN on Main HWY and let all the family make fun of me...did not care.. I felt safe and it was cool and my vacation..my money and my hubby agreed. HE spent his life on that farm and others , with cracks in the floor , with varmits in the outhouse and worked all year now and we deserved some NICE TIME>>>
SNAKES or mice at my house are a NO NO.. I use the electronic plug ins all over my home and barn and nursery..I also use DEMON every year inside and out and if I had anyone of the varmits inside.....HOLIDAY INN here I come..MY cocker spaniels alert or find anything moving inside or did..Now the gsd kill the moles, gophers and no mice to contend with so all is KEWL right now..
Copperheads have not shown their presence this year YET> NO bragging as tomorrow I will find one. I wear boots outside when dusk comes..
lol
YR
We went on our honeymoon to meet MOM and DAD in Oklahoma.
NO toilet, no bathroom..did have water in Kitchen..THEN the tales started.
I had to hold it all night and then wait till dawn broke to run out to the outhouse..LOL
BUT The second night the family came and started the tales. Rooster in the outhouse would peck you so be on watch..then the creepy things dancing up from the Indian Cemetery down towards SAMS house on edge of property..SAM was CHOCTAW and my family was CHEROKEE>>>>Nuff said.
NExt tale was how my hubby use to walk backwards home from school down the PINE CREEK ROAD because you had to pipe sunlight in and the black panthers would creep up behind you,
Next tale was taking me SNIPE hunting...ha ha ha I fooled them ,,,At christian service camp in Tanglewood, Texas I got to snipe hunt...so that old bag trick BACKFIRED ON THEM
NEXT tale is the one that made me dip into our savings the next SUMMER and make sure a BATHROOM got built and a AIR COOLER got installed in living room and all holes in house CAULKED>
MOM went to kitchen one morning and told sister to get the flour bag our of top cupboard , up 7 ft at ceiling..SHE Climbed up and screamed...snake snake...and DAD came and pulled out a big BLACK CHICKEN SNAKE>
Yellowrose from the next summer on, stayed at the KINGS INN on Main HWY and let all the family make fun of me...did not care.. I felt safe and it was cool and my vacation..my money and my hubby agreed. HE spent his life on that farm and others , with cracks in the floor , with varmits in the outhouse and worked all year now and we deserved some NICE TIME>>>
SNAKES or mice at my house are a NO NO.. I use the electronic plug ins all over my home and barn and nursery..I also use DEMON every year inside and out and if I had anyone of the varmits inside.....HOLIDAY INN here I come..MY cocker spaniels alert or find anything moving inside or did..Now the gsd kill the moles, gophers and no mice to contend with so all is KEWL right now..
Copperheads have not shown their presence this year YET> NO bragging as tomorrow I will find one. I wear boots outside when dusk comes..
lol
YR
by DDRCzechFan on 24 July 2012 - 13:07
I couldn't believe the size of this monster when you sent me the email, YR!
Living in the great frozen north, like you know I do, we've had our share of "critters" climb up the drains as well. Several Chipmunks ended up swimming in the toilets (rescued them with toilet brushes, they just relaxed and let me pull them out and set them outside - did this on THREE seperate occasions!)
Had two garter snakes work their way into the toilets, too. Same thing with them, though I wasn't scared of the Chipmunks, but man, anything with scales gives me the heeby jeebies!
Loved your story about waiting til dawn to use the outhouse, I both laughed AND felt sorry for you at the same time! LOL
Living in the great frozen north, like you know I do, we've had our share of "critters" climb up the drains as well. Several Chipmunks ended up swimming in the toilets (rescued them with toilet brushes, they just relaxed and let me pull them out and set them outside - did this on THREE seperate occasions!)
Had two garter snakes work their way into the toilets, too. Same thing with them, though I wasn't scared of the Chipmunks, but man, anything with scales gives me the heeby jeebies!
Loved your story about waiting til dawn to use the outhouse, I both laughed AND felt sorry for you at the same time! LOL
by vonissk on 24 July 2012 - 17:07
Oh YR those are cute little stories. I can just see it all in my head. Had you been related to us and been around we would have given you a hard time. I say that because we had city cousins and when they came to visit we would get them away from the grownups and make them holler and scream!!!!!
Honestly I don't know how we managed--I am still a country girl at heart but I could never live like that again. I like my comforts too much--like AC and cable not to mention bathrooms with no holes in the floor.
One day I was in the garage and I moved some stuff I had standing on the corner--fence poles and stuff--and OMG there was a garter snake. You would have thought it was a nest of rattlers or copperheads the way I carried on. The dogs ran over and I opened the garage door just enough where he could go on out. The dogs helped herd him out and I bet that poor snake was glad to get the heck out of dodge. LOL. He was probably like WTH--I was having a nice cool nap and all of a sudden WOW.................
Thanks for sharing.................
Honestly I don't know how we managed--I am still a country girl at heart but I could never live like that again. I like my comforts too much--like AC and cable not to mention bathrooms with no holes in the floor.
One day I was in the garage and I moved some stuff I had standing on the corner--fence poles and stuff--and OMG there was a garter snake. You would have thought it was a nest of rattlers or copperheads the way I carried on. The dogs ran over and I opened the garage door just enough where he could go on out. The dogs helped herd him out and I bet that poor snake was glad to get the heck out of dodge. LOL. He was probably like WTH--I was having a nice cool nap and all of a sudden WOW.................
Thanks for sharing.................
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