WARNING – There’s a picture down lower that could scare you! 🙂
This morning, as most every morning, just as it gets to be daylight, I go stumbling, half asleep, out to let the chickens out. I can hardly wait til winter for several reasons: Not so many critters and daylight will come a bit later in the morning.
This morning, the first thing I encountered that made me jump and kinda wish I had gone to the bathroom before letting the chickens out:
Scary Web
It’s kind of a neat picture but this is the coop I don’t like because I’m having to walk between two real close fences and I’m watching my toes to be sure nothing gets me from the ground . . and this is where I grabbed the snake’s tail thinking it was one of those cords. This morning, I was watching where I was walking, got right up there in that narrow little space, reached up to grab a cord to open the door and dang it . . . I thought it was a critter tail hanging down but it was only a dirty cobweb that had come loose and was hanging down.
Then I went on to the next coop and I was kinda halfway trying to look up to make sure there was nothing going to get me, and look down to watch my feet and I came across this that wasn’t there yesterday so . . where might he be? Hopefully very far away but I’m guessing he isn’t so far away and he sees me.
Snake Skin
As I was walking back to the house, I was met by my usual friend wanting to be fed. He sits right by his food bowl, making sure I see him but as soon as it’s obvious I’m heading his direction, he runs back into the tall weeds. Because I can’t get close to him, I have to zoom so much that the photo is blurry . . sorry . . maybe some day I can get closer to him.
Kitty
There are few days that go by that I don’t stop and think about those poor women who headed west with their husbands .. into the great unknown, and encountered way worse than we face here. I wonder how many of them thought “What the heck have I gotten myself into?” I don’t know how any of them survived .. heat, drought, bugs, snakes, wild animals .. and no OFF with Deet! I’d never have made it.
Sherrill says
Well, good grief. I looked at that picture and saw a cobweb but then was reading and you said a snake so I had to go back up and look at the picture and STILL saw a cobweb. A little further down, you said a cobweb and I was like ‘well, for cryin’ out loud!!’. HA Those snake skins are pretty cool to look at but not when it’s close to home. Did you see the cobra they’re looking for up here?! YIKES!! Who the HECK would keep that as a ‘pet’ (and it killed it’s owner, they think). GOOD GRIEF!!!
Dottie N. says
Read this morning that the cobra is no longer a threat – it was found and killed!!! Yippee!
Erin says
WOA I would have peed my pants! I am petrified of snakes! You had quite an eventful awakening for the day!
Ranch Wife says
Yeh…I’ve learned to use the bathroom before heading out in the morning too. 🙂 And I KNOW I’m not nearly tough enough to have endured what those women endured!
Linda says
I think about those women, too. But now, I’ve added you to the list! When I found a centipede crawling toward me in my sewing room, I said to myself, “yeah, but Judy deals with scorpions. Daily.”
PattiLynn says
I remember my Grandmother telling about how she came to Tx in the back of a covered wagon when she was a young girl. There were eventually 11 siblings in her family. Ack! Sure wish I’d asked more questions when I coulda.
Kitty has figured out where his next meal comes from. Good!!
Karen Sutton says
I had to laugh when I read the last paragraph. Bob always says if I’d been around during wagon train days and been kidnapped by Indians they would have given me back! God knew what He was doing when he put me in the 20th century.
Judy S says
Not to mention childbirth on the trail……..
Pat Hathaway says
Maybe take a broom with you for self defense. We stayed at a B&B near Kansas City one time that was beautiful. It was a dome house surrounded by trees close enough to be a forest. There were wooden walkways into the trees to go watch birds and such. Only problem was the horrible cobwebs. I don’t know what kind of spider makes such dense webs and didn’t want to find out. There was a bucket near the entrance to the walkway labeled “spiderweb sticks”. That’s not enough protection for me, I skipped the walks. Gives me shivers just thinking of it.