We regularly catch and relocate at least a half dozen black rat snakes every summer. We get King snakes too but I let them stick around since they kill copperheads.Yesterday was so awesome weather-wise, today we have rain coming, then very windy Friday with 50mph gusts. Humidity & wind really kick my butt, arthritis & fibromyalgia, sinus headaches, the works. Yesterday I felt & worked like I was 20 & today I am paying the price, feeling old, sacroiliac pain along with a barometric headache. Oh well, gotta take the good with the bad, right?
I can't paint on the jobsite til Sat & Sun, so today I can rake what I tilled, before it rains. (After I pop 2 Aleve). I wanted to spread the wildflower seeds in that tilled section, but with high winds I will hold off. I use straw over top of the seed so I can wait a few days, no sense letting wind blow straw all over. After raking this morning I will be washing & crating eggs for market, pickling some eggs for us, & potting about 50 house plants...my plants have baby plants & I rooted them.
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Chlorophytum comosum, usually called spider plant or common spider plant due to its spider-like look, also known as spider ivy, airplane plant, ribbon plant (a name it shares with Dracaena sanderiana), and hen and chickens, is a species of evergreen perennial flowering plant of the family Asparagaceae.
The tomato sprouts...I guess they're growing, but darn, seems like slow motion to me. I brought them outside yesterday as it was 70s & sunny. They did like sunshine, after so many cloudy rainy days here.
But "Something" ate a few sprouts tender leaves off! What kind of bug would do that? The little jerk ate a few then took off before I could see the culprit that did this dastardly deed.
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I got the Brussel sprout seeds & 2 other types of tomato seeds started. Got more canning jars at Dollar General.
So...on a kind of funny note, I was in the newer chicken coop, which still is not completely finished, and I saw a visitor slither in. This 12x24 shed used to be a wood shop & I often found perfectly intact shed skins, some quite long. I donated them to Prime Hook refuge for educational purposes. Anyway, they're good mousers, so I left them alone. Rick despises & is quite fearful of them, so I figured I'd better relocate this one. If Rick has seen it, not sure if he would just run from it or kill it. So I took it for a ride, a safer place, huge natural growing area, where no one will mess with him/her. I asked Rick to drive but he wouldn't even come out of the house when he saw me holding it! I drove 1 handed & I have to tell ya, Mr./Ms. Snake was a better passenger than Rick...no backseat driving!I told Rick, he'd better be nice to his Lady Snake Wrangler, here. Lol
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Too long to get whole body in 1 pic while holding, had to take 3
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See ya later, hope I don't regret this...snake will be happy but I may miss a good mouser
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The little black one (Matilda) is very sweet and tame.
another 2 giant black winter melon snapped off the vine. I supported 3 that were left hanging, but its easier said than done. First, I tied a mesh with 2 cords under the bottom of the vertical melon, so the weight is resting on the bottom of the melon. Then I thought, it might stop the growth of the melon, so I tied the other two up sideways. I need to sleep on this and search for heavy duty netting or make one with the cord.
