Because I’m respectful of those who do not like the “slithering things”, here’s a warning: Close this post and read no more of it but . . there’s a super cool picture and, something I’ve heard about but never seen before so . . if you want to be a wimp and miss the picture . . go ahead. 🙂 Seriously, saying that was as rude as if someone told me to drive across a really fun, scary bridge . . unless I didn’t care about having fun. I would never do that so if you don’t want to see the picture, that’s ok . . I understand.
And though this picture has NOTHING to do with the post, I’m going to make it the featured image so the other one doesn’t show up and scare anyone half to death . . or 75% to death!
How about a picture of a quilt on a bed? That’s nice, right?
OK . . the real post.
We have friends who . . well, she is a city girl. They live in town here, which isn’t exactly Dallas or Houston but it’s city living. She grew up in a city and she doesn’t like much that has to do with the country. They came out yesterday evening to cut okra. I told them to wear snake boots. Nope, both showed up with their okra cutting knife and bags . . wearing flip flops.
On the way to the garden, Vince as leading the way and he said “SNAKE!” We all stopped. My friend didn’t run the other way but she didn’t get any closer than where she had stopped, which was plenty far away.
Not only was it a snake but he was eating a rattlesnake! That rattlesnake looks much fatter than that gray snake. Sounds like terrible indigestion to me!
I was apparently getting too close so the snake took his meal and moved away.
Later I went out there and the rattlesnake was dead but he’d been spit out and left. Maybe we bothered the gray snake too much or maybe he decided that was more of a meal than he needed. No idea but it was surely interesting to see.
Paula Nordt says
What a treat to get to see that! I belong to a snake I’d group on Facebook, so I’ve seen other posts of this, but it’s still cool!
Carol says
He spit it out because he was disturbed. I have two boa pythons and if I mess with them, they will do that. Next time just go around instead of getting closer. Snakes that eat other snakes are all my friends. I live in the desert so we deal with rattlers all the time, lol.
Dottie Newkirk says
All I can say is WOW and better thee than me ;-).
RUTH CHOW says
I spent way too long on Facebook the other day watching a snake eat a snail. They are very long! Now you have one fewer rattlesnake to encounter!
Sara Fridley says
Very interesting but it still made me shudder!
Teri says
WOW! That’s awesome!! The quilt is beautiful too!
Cilla says
Cool……too bad he could t digest his meal. Hope the gray snake was ok.
Joyce says
Cool! I know both milk snakes and king snakes will kill (and eat) rattle snakes, so they are good ones to have around! Of course king snakes will eat eggs, so it’s a catch 22 if you have chickens and want the eggs! LOL I think milk snakes are pretty–well, as pretty as any snake can be…LOL
Cathi Harry says
Our daughter and our 14 year old granddaughter are staying with us temporarily. Granddaughter has two snakes that are currently living in our dining room! They are non poisionist, each in their own secure habitats. They are very quiet and we rarely see them. I never dreamed I would be living with snakes. (They also brought 2 cats, 2 dogs and a chicken who thinks she’s a person.
Cathi Harry says
Oops I misspelled poisonous.
Nelle Coursey says
When we had a rent house on Austin Avenue there was a guy living there that kept rattlesnakes inside the house! Almost as bad as the guy that rented it and kept prostitutes from Mexico in there! LOL I do not like snakes at all. But I do love your quilt!
Susan Nixon says
That is interesting! And the quilt is pretty, too.
Twyla says
The quilt is wonderful. Glad you showed the snakes picture. Amazing.
Rose says
We don’t have snakes in NZ so ….. wow how awesome is that 🙂 Loving the quilt photo too