Y’all want to hear a real snake story? It’s late (for me) . . I’m tired. This is probably a blog post I’ll regret in the morning! 🙂
Back when I lived in Louisiana, we had water moccasins, which I think might be similar to cottonmouths, everywhere. It was always wet there, water was always standing. Snakes were better than alligators and we occasionally had alligators roaming around.
Not only do they scare me half to death but they stink . . they smell musty or moldy. According to Wickipedia, they smell like a billy goat.
We had an upright freezer in our garage. Every day, I drove into the garage and my car door opened right against that freezer, so my feet were right close to the freezer. You know where I’m going with this, don’t you?
It smelled really bad in the garage and we couldn’t figure out why. We even went so far as to defrost and clean out the freezer. Nope, the smell was still there. One night, I opened the kitchen door to go out into the garage and that snake had crawled up the kitchen door and when I opened the door, he fell into my kitchen floor.
You should’ve heard me scream! The snake was removed, though I don’t remember anything that happened after I screamed. That was the end of the stink in the garage. We did move the freezer and inspect up underneath it to be sure there were no baby snakes anywhere.
At least .. so far .. I haven’t had a snake in the house here. I know I shouldn’t have said that! 🙂
Susan says
Ewww! I think I would have screamed, too. I know rattlesnakes don’t smell like that, though, so don’t depend on that! However, I saw many *many* more scorpions than I ever saw snakes in the desert. Snakes never came into my house, though scorpions, mice, and once a raccoon did.
Rose Nutira says
Oh my goodness! Thank fully we STILL don;t have snakes in NZ 😀
Anne says
Oh my, I’m not sure I could survive that! Oh my, I’m going to have nightmares about that one!
We have diamond backs and mojaves here and I’ve heard of them curling up on door mats in front of the door, but never climbing up the doors. I knew there was a reason I have a screen door!
Adrienne says
OMG…..you southern girls are sure brave. The only trip on my “bucket list” is to one day travel through every Canadian province, continue on down the eastern seaboard, through the southern States and back up the Pacific coast to home…..might have to re-think that…..not a huge fan of snakes (or gators uf it comes to that)!
Teri says
I hear ya…..I had a garter snake come in my house….and I jumped on a chair and screamed, but no one was home but me….a lot of good the scream did….LOL I had a friends son come and look for the snake,,,,,
Peggy says
I had a snake in my quilt shop and on the same day we found one in the house. I don’t know what kind they were, because the shovel messed each up so much.
When visiting my uncle in FL we always had to look up before opening the screen door, because a snake liked to lay there.
I HATE SNAKES, but I know some are good and we do need them as a part of the cycle of life. I hope you never have a snake in the house or anywhere that puts anyone in real danger.
Diana in RR Texas says
Sometime when we are together I’ll tell you some snake stories from our time in Asia. Firends did find the 501 use for duct tape however. He had put it across the bottom of the door to help keep the water out during a typhoon. Several weeks later their cat (who was inside) wouldn’t leave the door alone. He took off the duct tape and a snake had evidently been trying to get back outside and stuck to the tape and died.
Marie Gilkey says
I’m like you Judy, I do not like snakes. Black ones, brown ones green ones, I don’t care I just do not like the darn things.I can smell them before I ever see them, which helps but they still scare the bejesus out of me!! Every time I mow, I end up finding one or two or seven!!! I try to kill every one of them. Can’t even go fishing anymore in the river here, as they tend to find me and lay on my feet or across my legs, which causes me to freeeze and scream!! Dead ones are the best!!
shirley bruner says
now THAT might have made ME scream. hahaha
Donna F says
Omg I don’t know what I would have done. I’ve dealt with a lot of snakes and it doesn’t make me like them any more than before.
My aunt & uncle had two rattlers in their house once…one behind their tv…remember those cabinet floor models from the 70’s? Gross! The second one was found stretched across the top of the back of their couch! It took me a while to go visit my cousins again.
I was always told to plant gourds around the yard to keep them away though I’m not sure if it works.
glen in louisiana says
late one night we let the cat out and a rattle snake came in. it was a comedy of sorts that would win the Million Dollar Prize on AFV if we had been taping it. At one point, when the snake had crawled into the wall and Frank had overturned furniture, ripped the carpet out, and torn the baseboards off, he announced the snake would have to stay in the wall. I told him that me, the dogs and daughter Carrie were moving into my Aunt’s house until it was out of there! He finally got it. And now we have screen doorns that open outward!
Linda Steller says
I would have died of heart failure on the spot. I can stand snakes to a certain degree – as long as they’re small and not too close to me, but if one fell from on high and landed on my kitchen floor, all bets are off!